A few years ago, a friend told me a story that sounds like the stuff urban legends are made of. He said that in the initial test groups for iPods before they were released, participants of the study were asked what color iPod they’d prefer. The vast majority voted for...
We’ve been in the throws of the trendy green movement for several years now. We’re learning to care for the environment in our own practical ways such as switch out our light bulbs, carry our own bags to the grocery store, use less water, turn the...
Lately I’ve been reading The Art of the Commonplace: The Agrarian Essays of Wendell Berry when I stumbled on the distinction that he makes between a path and a road. He writes: “The difference between a path and a road is not only the obvious one. A path...
We’ve been picking olives for two days, well, a day and a half. Rained out this morning, we traveled back to the fields at noon to pluck the green and purple delicacies. There’s no temptation to eat the harvest which is bitter to the taste, but the promise...
Today was our first day of experiencing the olive harvest in Croatia. We were ready to be picked up at 7:30 am, but our host’s father was experiencing heart pain and spent the morning being checked out at the emergency room. He is fine. Our host picked us up at...
I stumbled on something while studying the Scripture. The journey began in the book of Genesis where Sarai rejects Hagar after she becomes impregnated by Abram (even though it was what Sarai really wanted–yet another reminder that one of God’s most...
