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Sep 20, 2023 ∞

📷 blog challenge | Day 20: disruption

On a date with Della when this little guy showed up.

a chipmunk crawls on a lunch table at a restaurant

Sep 19, 2023 ∞

📷 blog challenge | Day 19: edge

Sep 18, 2023 ∞

📷 blog challenge | Day 18: fabric

I got to try this 14’ quilting machine the other day. Amazing.

Sep 17, 2023 ∞

📷 blog challenge | Day 17: intense

Sep 16, 2023 ∞

📷 blog challenge | Day 16: oof!

Sep 15, 2023 ∞

📷 blog challenge | Day 15: red

For the past few years we’ve been going to the fair that occasionally pops up at the Tucson Outlets. It’s pretty fun!

Sep 14, 2023 ∞

📷 blog challenge | Day 14: statue

Someone figured out how to combine art, whimsy, and self storage. Someone should win an award.

A statue of a man carrying colorful boxes, some of which have fallen on the ground, next to a sign advertising “Extra Space Storage”

Sep 13, 2023 ∞

📷 blog challenge | Day 13: glowing

I couldn’t find a good picture for yesterday’s challenge: “panic”. But I think this is a great one for today. I took the picture last year a few days after Christmas.

Sep 11, 2023 ∞

📷 blog challenge | Day 11: retrospect 🚲

Since Christmas I’ve been slowly turning a 1982 Univega Gran Turismo frame into a super fun everyday bike. It’s a love-project that comes from my grandpa to my dad to me.

Bicycle frame of a 1982 Univega Gran Turismo.

Sep 10, 2023 ∞

📷 blog challenge | Day 10: cycle 🚲

Picture of a 2020 Giant Stance 2 mountain bike on the back of an SUV

Sep 9, 2023 ∞

The Belt of Truth and Problem of Identity

I’ve been thinking about the intersection of truthfulness and identity this week. Partly because I’m preparing a Sunday School lesson for tomorrow which includes the Belt of Truth from Ephesians 6, and partly because on Wednesday I got to hear my buddy John Besson give a sneak peak of his and his wife’s forthcoming book, Trading Faces. It’s all about the identities we cling to and live by. Ideas about truth and identity aligned for me when I found this thought-provoking article by Steve Rathje: Why People Ignore Facts: When it comes to reasoning, identity trumps truth.

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Sep 9, 2023 ∞

In Apple Maps you can get directions and travel estimates via different transportation modes, including bicycle.

In Apple Calendar you can set your travel time to an appointment based on location and transportation mode, but not including bicycle.

Why no bike? 🚲

a screenshot of Apple Calendar's travel time selection feature a screenshot of transportation modes in Apple Maps

Sep 9, 2023 ∞

📷 blog challenge | Day 8: language

Body language and symbolic communication all on one hilarious door.

A bathroom sign of a man squeezing his knees together

Sep 8, 2023 ∞

📷 blog challenge | Day 8: yonder

a view of water flowing from the dam at Hetch Hetchy in Yosemite National Park

Sep 7, 2023 ∞

📷 blog challenge | Day 7: panorama

Sep 6, 2023 ∞

📷 blog challenge | Day 6: well

At our Bible study tonight, one of the kids requested that we sing It Is Well With My Soul

Though Satan should buffet, though trials should come, let this blest assurance control, that Christ has regarded my helpless esstate, and has shed his own blood for my soul.

Picture of the hymn It Is Well with My Soul

Sep 5, 2023 ∞

📷 blog challenge | Day 5: forest + bonus haiku

I took this pic of a giant tree growing on top of a ginormous California Redwood stump.

What appears to be a big tree growing out of the stump of a California Redwood

O how we can stand
On the shoulders of giants
Long after they’ve gone.

Aug 19, 2023 ∞

Getting ready for a wedding! Genesis 2:18.

Flowers and fabric arch for a couple on their wedding day

Aug 18, 2023 ∞

Can you do tent camping with a family of seven? Yes! And if you survive the night, everyone looks so sweet and comfy in the morning.

Aug 15, 2023 ∞

The world can feel very big sometimes.

A little animal on the ground at an outdoor restaurant

Aug 7, 2023 ∞

Tonight’s sunset.

Aug 2, 2023 ∞

A picture of Mo’s. We try to go whenever we visit Oregon.

2012 Chevy Express under the starry, starry skies.

And yet, just outside the restaurant was this sign pointing us the way home to Arizona.

a sign pointing the way to various cities named Florence

Jul 21, 2023 ∞

The Golden Nugget reached 225,000 miles this summer. I’m thankful for all the adventures our family has had in this van.

Jul 20, 2023 ∞

The Lord of the Rain

Exodus 9:33 So Moses went out of the city from Pharaoh and stretched out his hands to the LORD, and the thunder and the hail ceased, and the rain no longer poured upon the earth. Job 5:8 “As for me, I would seek God, and to God I would commit my cause. Job 5:10 He gives rain on the earth and sends waters on the fields; Psalm 65:9-10 You visit the earth and water it, you greatly enrich it; the river of God is full of water; you provide the people with grain, for so you have prepared it.