"The Glass House is one of the world's most beautiful and yet least functional homes. The house is symmetrical and sits solidly on the ground. The quarter-inch thick glass walls are supported by black steel pillars. The interior space is divided by low walnut cabinets and a brick cylinder that contains the bathroom. The cylinder and the brick floors are a polished purple hue. Philip Johnson says that when people come into his house they just shut up and look around. The Glass House is now open to the public, with tours booked many months in advance. "Monday, June 30, 2008
The Glass House by Philip Johnson
I have always been fascinated by this house...
"The Glass House is one of the world's most beautiful and yet least functional homes. The house is symmetrical and sits solidly on the ground. The quarter-inch thick glass walls are supported by black steel pillars. The interior space is divided by low walnut cabinets and a brick cylinder that contains the bathroom. The cylinder and the brick floors are a polished purple hue. Philip Johnson says that when people come into his house they just shut up and look around. The Glass House is now open to the public, with tours booked many months in advance. "
"The Glass House is one of the world's most beautiful and yet least functional homes. The house is symmetrical and sits solidly on the ground. The quarter-inch thick glass walls are supported by black steel pillars. The interior space is divided by low walnut cabinets and a brick cylinder that contains the bathroom. The cylinder and the brick floors are a polished purple hue. Philip Johnson says that when people come into his house they just shut up and look around. The Glass House is now open to the public, with tours booked many months in advance. "
Downloading pictures
I was a little surprised when I found 32 new pictures on my camera. Chloe was posing figures so she could write a book for Sophie. She had put her characters in the strangest places...
Saturday, June 28, 2008
An Unusual House...
Bernardsville, New Jersey: The Bunny Lane House of noted architect Adam Kalkin is an old aircraft hangar that encloses and extends Kalkin’s original family home. The home’s front porch is now in the dining room—and the living room stands where the front yard once did.Monday, June 23, 2008
Interesting...
Is the Gospel encrypted in the first genealogy in the Bible (Geneses 5)?Adam-man
Seth-appointed
Enosh-mortal
Kenan-sorrow
Mahalalel-the blessed of God
Jared-shall come down
Enoch-teaching
Methuselah -his death shall bring
Lamech-despairing
Noah-comfort or rest
Man (is) appointed mortal sorrow (but) the Blessed of God shall come down teaching (that) His death shall bring (the) despairing comfort.
(Artwork by Michelangelo di Lodovico Buonarroti Simoni, 1511)
Sunday, June 22, 2008
Friday, June 20, 2008
Wednesday, June 18, 2008
1970 and Now
Lori--Remember when we were in Mary's wedding? The Emporia State days feel like a lifetime ago. It was so good to see you yesterday--I wish you didn't live so far away!
Sunday, June 15, 2008
3 Grand Little Girls for Papa's Day...
(Mason, sorry I didn't get any pictures of you tonite. I'll have to take a bunch of pictures of you soon. You are so special to Papa and me! We love you more than life itself!)Thursday, June 12, 2008
Empowered to Receive Love
The Spirit reveals to us not only that God is "Abba, Father" but also that we belong to God as his beloved children. The Spirit thus restores in us the relationship from which all other relationships derive their meaning.Abba is a very intimate word. The best translation for it is: "Daddy." The word Abba expresses trust, safety, confidence, belonging, and most of all intimacy. It does not have the connotation of authority, power, and control, that the word Father often evokes. On the contrary, Abba implies an embracing and nurturing love. This love includes and infinitely transcends all the love that comes to us from our fathers, mothers, brothers, sisters, spouses, and lovers. It is the gift of the Spirit.
(Lena, this one is for you, too)
Empowered to Call God "Abba"
Calling God "Abba, Father" is different from giving God a familiar name. Calling God "Abba" is entering into the same intimate, fearless, trusting, and empowering relationship with God that Jesus had. That relationship is called Spirit, and that Spirit is given to us by Jesus and enables us to cry out with him, "Abba, Father."
Calling God "Abba, Father" is a cry of the heart, a prayer welling up from our innermost beings. It has nothing do with naming God but everything to do with claiming God as the source of who we are. This claim does not come from any sudden insight or acquired conviction; it is the claim that the Spirit of Jesus makes in communion with our spirits. It is the claim of love.
--Henri Nouwen
Wednesday, June 11, 2008
fun in the pool tonite...
Okay, I kind of had fun with Adobe photoshop:
Click on the picture and you can see how high Cody had thrown Mason:
Click on the picture and you can see how high Cody had thrown Mason:
Tuesday, June 10, 2008
On Marriage
You were born together, and together you shall be forevermore.
You shall be together when white wings of death scatter your days.
Aye, you shall be together even in the silent memory of God.
But let there be spaces in your togetherness,
And let the winds of the heavens dance between you.
Love one another but make not a bond of love:
Let it rather be a moving sea between the shores of your souls.
Fill each other's cup but drink not from one cup.
Give one another of your bread but eat not from the same loaf.
Sing and dance together and be joyous, but let each one of you be alone,
Even as the strings of a lute are alone though they quiver with the same music.
Give your hearts, but not into each other's keeping.
For only the Hand of Life can contain your hearts.
And stand together, yet not too near together:
For the pillars of the temple stand apart,
And the oak tree and the cypress grow not in each other's shadow.
(Kahlil Gibran, 1923)
You shall be together when white wings of death scatter your days.
Aye, you shall be together even in the silent memory of God.
But let there be spaces in your togetherness,
And let the winds of the heavens dance between you.
Love one another but make not a bond of love:
Let it rather be a moving sea between the shores of your souls.
Fill each other's cup but drink not from one cup.
Give one another of your bread but eat not from the same loaf.
Sing and dance together and be joyous, but let each one of you be alone,
Even as the strings of a lute are alone though they quiver with the same music.
Give your hearts, but not into each other's keeping.
For only the Hand of Life can contain your hearts.
And stand together, yet not too near together:
For the pillars of the temple stand apart,
And the oak tree and the cypress grow not in each other's shadow.
(Kahlil Gibran, 1923)
Monday, June 9, 2008
Lil Baby is 6 months old today!
Precious one,
So small,
So sweet
Dancing in
on angel feet
Straight from Heaven's
brightest star
What a miracle
(Author Unknown)
So small,
So sweet
Dancing in
on angel feet
Straight from Heaven's
brightest star
What a miracle
(Author Unknown)
Saturday, June 7, 2008
“When religion replaces the actual experience of the living Jesus, when we lose the authority of personal knowing and rely on the authority of books, institutions, and leaders, when we let religion interpose between us and the primary experience of Jesus as the Christ, we lose the very reality that religion itself describes as ultimate.”
--Brennan Manning in The Wisdom of Tenderness
--Brennan Manning in The Wisdom of Tenderness
Friday, June 6, 2008
Thursday, June 5, 2008
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