Backward Mutters

Month: June 2009

  • Peleton Community: Achtervogler

    When riding with others I begin to wax on community: how it works best…how it breaks down and fails. Being a cyclist helps because you can see it all in one ride. The efficiency of a peleton is inescapable. A rider who ‘takes a flyer’ off the front only succeeds…

  • Mortification Mondays

    On Tuesday mornings I and several others are working through John Owen’s The Mortification of Sin. Here are a couple of quotes for today’s discussion. From Chapter 3 on “The Work of the Holy Spirit in Mortification”, “I might here bewail the endless, foolish labour of poor souls, who are…

  • Trebuchet Tales: Spud Studs

    Our beach trips over the past few years have benefited by a rivalry between the men and women and the projects each brings to share with others at the beach. Tired of being shown up each year, the men got their acts together an built a 3 foot tall trebuchet.…

  • Various and Sundry

    Matt Frost over at American Scene has some interesting thoughts on last summer’s Pixar movie Walle. Specifically he shares some comments about Walle’s creative closing credits. Also over at First Thoughts the blog of journal First Things, Joe Carter has some helpful thoughts concerning the art of self-defined “painter of…

  • The Mercurial Spirit: Clerks in Heaven?

    (via The Big Picture) “It is difficult to see the unity of all [Mercury’s] characteristics. ‘Skilled eagerness’ or ‘bright alacrity’ is the best I can do. But it is better just to take some real mercury in a saucer and play with it for a few minutes. That is what…