here's one i wrote specifically for a reading at a friend's book opening party. the book is about a way of living centered around experimentation and learning.
quarry
he is always one step ahead of me one blink of an eye better i have chased him across continents across oceans and across decades
every time i think i have him i burst into a room to find it is empty except, sometimes, the smallest clue pointing me in a direction
when i finally do catch him it will not be because he stumbled but rather because i have changed watching, guessing, learning, until finally one day i know him so well, i can almost feel his thoughts i can anticipate his next move
i jump ahead of him, this will be the day at last i step out from the shadows and stare into his eyes the shock, so alike, he and i in finding him, i have lost myself
which is the also moment that i realize that he too is chasing someone a better version of himself more generous, more loving, and always just out of reach someone i would have never have had the skills to catch until now
A nice present fell from the sky. I got to spend the day listening to researchers and designers talk about the future of video games. It was an interesting and fun day. There was such passion and energy, it was just exciting to be around these people as they talked about the thing that they love doing.
... and ... years ago, when I was supposed to be earning a degreee in computer science, I was writing a computer game which, in game design circles, is still mentioned as influential. Which means that I had people coming up to me and asking if I was The Michael Toy.
It felt like i was the long lost family member being welcomed back. I was so bowled over that people still remember that game. What a nice gift, to know that you did something that people loved. I wish I could thank the people who thanked me, I am still smiling.
There was a rant about the mute switch on the side of iPads on this blog a while back. To summarize, Apple initially designed that switch to be a mute switch, changed it to be a rotation lock before shipping, then changed it back to be a mute switch in iOS 4.2. I thought that was a bad decision.
Hidden in the iPad 2 announcement was the news that Apple is, in iOS 4.3, going to allow the user to choose what that little switch on the side of an iPad does.
This is good news and bad news.
It is good news because it is yet another sign of the awesome power this blog and it's 14 readers have to bring about goodness in the world.
It is good news because I won't hate my iPad so much.
It is bad news because this is the Microsoft way of solving problems. The Apple way is to ship useful products. The Microsoft way is to ship powerful technologies which could possibly be configured to be useful. I had more respect for the "wrong" mute switch than I do for a "Mute Switch Preference".
There is no pleasing me I guess. I get what I want and I still find something to complain about.
Today is a beautiful day. My friend Dave has unbolted.
Dave built this bike, and blogged about it, and it was a thing of beauty. Then one day he got a cool thing, a little two stroke engine that converts a bike into a moto-bike. And for a while, this bike had a motor. Which was kind of cool, except there was the constant sadness of the lost beautiful simplicity of the bike-that-was.
The motor recently got unbolted, and the one speed is restored to its former humility.
For me, this is a beautiful metaphor. The motor was cool and useful, but it didn't belong on this bike. The right thing to do, was unbolt. Today I am wondering about unbolting. What things have I glued together that maybe need to be unbolted. This photo is my prayer for the day, "Lord help me unbolt"
to the chief musician to be sung on superbowl sunday
my brain is dirty and needs to be washed, my life is stained by indiscretion i am hoping for your salvation your mighty power that can make me clean. lead me and i will follow teach me, your words are like precious jewels. i come before you with arms wide open. my heart is yours for the taking,
selah
help me to walk again in the ways of consumption all the days of my life
some friends and i all took a crack at writing a poem inspired by the phrase "new year". here is mine
i refuse i will make no resolutions on one one two zero one one or any other one one let me tell you why
in a laboratory in colorado government scientists carefully observe cesium atoms floating in perfect vacuum cooled to near absolute zero watching them vibrate, counting the cycles so we can know what time it is
the international official atomic second is mathematically synchronized with the eternal hopeless falling of the earth towards the sun that we call an orbit
flowers bloom babies cry shots are fired young people die leaves are falling snowflakes sigh
blizzard mudslide fire hurricane
baseball football baseball football
around and around
as the earth reaches this atomically and astronomically precise location having passed through the mystic barrier of the solstice as our bodies begin to recognize that the days are getting longer it becomes the season of lists
we read lists of top thises and thatses and make our own list of promises to ourselves knowing that they will be broken still hoping that the warmth of the lengthening days will keep the promises alive long enough to make a difference
... because the worst thing the last thing we want is for the earth to be back at this exact same place 31 million, 556 thousand, 926 point 9747 universally coordinated seconds from now after half a year of blossoming hope and another half of blooming despair making the exact same promises like a lonely cesium atom resonating there and back and the only output is the single click of a cosmic countdown
so i refuse to resolve today not because i will myself to triumph over the atomic and astronomical rhythms i neither deny nor defy the meter and measure of the cosmic cadence
i do not refuse because i want to transcend or escape i refuse because i want to live i refuse because my failures are precious much too important to vanish in my hands like time much too beautiful to be mourned abstractly like the shortening days
i refuse because failure belongs to the crazy impossibility that is life and not to the synchronized inevitability of time
OK, this is not earth shaking, but it does bug me, and it's my blog so I can waste my time any way I want.
The mute switch is one of the single greatest ideas in phone design. Before the mute switch you had to navigate through menus to change your phone from "Silent" to "Normal" mode, which was annoying and also impossible to do in a hurry. The Treo was this first phone I owned with a mute switch and once I had a mute switch I knew I didn't ever want a phone that didn't have one.
iPhones have a mute switch, and I am very HAPPY that they have mute switches. They also have volume controls on the side, and that has more to do with them being media players than from any real necessity.
iPads have three buttons on the side, just like an iPhone. Apparently, if you believe the internet, the third button was originally meant to be a mute switch, making the iPad like a giant phone. However before the iPad shipped, they changed their mind. In the original iPad software, holding the "down volume" button muted the iPad, so it was just as easy to mute the device. The switch-formerly-known-as-the-mute-switch was re-purposed to be a "Rotation Lock", which would stop the iPad from auto rotating the UI, which gets annoying and needs to be turned off depending on how you are using your iPad.
This was brilliant. This was why Apple wins. It made the device better.
However the iPad with its cool rotation lock button was a problem for iPhone users. As iPhone apps began to implement rotateable apps, they needed a way to do rotation locking. So iPhoneOS 4.0 added the ability for iPhone users to lock the rotation. The gesture in iPhone OS 4.0 was to double click the big button on the face of the phone, flick left, and then click the lock. This is nasty and awkward, but you don't need to rotation lock a phone very often, so it was a fine place for that function to be on a phone. You certainly DO NOT want to have to retrain millions of phone owners that the former mute switch on their iPhone is now a rotation lock. So Apple wins again, good UI design.
Enter iOS 4.2, which runs on BOTH iPads and iPhones. What should happen now? When faced with this problem, Apple made two decisions. First they decided not to make all iPhones work like iPads ( by making the switch on the side of both devices be a rotation lock switch). Good choice, as I said before, you don't need rotation lock that often on an iPhone, it doesn't make sense to take away the mute switch which you use all the time.
What they decided to was to make the iPad work exactly like a phone. To make the switch on the side into a mute switch and move the rotation lock to the same weird place it is on the iPhone. This was the wrong decision. The correct decision would have been to leave the switch on the side of the iPad as a rotation lock, with the "hold down volume key to mute" gesture, and then, for iPhone users who insist on doing the gesture, you could provide, in the hidden place where the software rotation lock screen exists, helpful pointers to finding the rotation lock.
Why am I sure this is wrong? Well for one thing, it is wrong because it bothers me. But it is also easy to demonstrate that it is wrong. Lets us imagine three different users. Each of these users owns an iPhone, knows how to use it, and now has an iPad.
Expert -- I'll be the expert.
Normal -- Someone who knows how to use an iPhone, but has the ability to learn a new thing if given a chance.
Idiot -- Someone who somehow learned how to use an iPhone, but can never ever learn a new thing.
Now let us see how these three users feel about their devices, both on "Day 1", the first day they start using an iPad, and on "Day N", after they have been using their iPad for a while and have learned how to take best advantage of it. Let us compare the happiness of these people with Apple's Decision vs. the happiness of these people if Apple had done the right thing, and left the rotation lock switch alone on the iPad. Each person will will be found in one of these three states:
HAPPY -- the UI is working really well for them
CONTENT -- the UI is working for them, but not in the best way
ANGRY -- they can get stuff done, but it pisses them off
User
Apple's Decision
The Right Thing
Day 1
Day N
Day 1
Day N
Expert User
ANGRY
ANGRY
HAPPY
HAPPY
Normal User
CONTENT
CONTENT
CONTENT
HAPPY
Idiot User
CONTENT
CONTENT
ANGRY
ANGRY
This table clearly shows that the only people happier with Apple's decision are idiots. I totally support designing user interfaces for Normal people. However designing user interfaces for Idiots is a really bad idea, and in this case, in a classic example of "foolish consistency", that is exactly what Apple has done. ( "A foolish consistency is the hobgoblin of little minds, adored by little statesmen and philosophers and divines --Emerson )
The corner of the twitterverse I listen to is fluttering about the TSA. People are outraged. Our inability to come to grips with our own fear has manifested itself in an entity which seems out of control. If you are flying, it feels like you have to be super careful about what you say or do around the TSA, because you never know which one little thing you say or do will trigger a national security emergency.
I'm not the most clued and sensitive guy in the world about matters of race and class, but it just strikes me that maybe this is a good thing. Finally White America is getting a taste of its own medicine. Any tiny twinge of fear that white people feel about encounters with the TSA is probably just a fraction of what people experience every day whose skin color and street address mark them for the same sort of merciless, terrorizing, control.
This is what happens when you let fear rule you. Somewhere, usually far away from you, justice is sacrificed to make you feel safer. Can someone who has a microphone challenge America to find the courage to be the better version of itself?
In June, having been given an iPad as a gift, ( which gets me off the hook for what I said here ), I decided to try an experiment. Put the laptop away, and see how well the iPad stands up as a replacement. I bought a keyboard, and a small pile of software packages. I tried, for as long as I could stand it, to give up my laptop and replace it with an iPad.
As you have probably already guessed, I did not like the experience. I am typing this report on a laptop, and the iPad is sitting right next to me, closed and turned off. A couple of friends who read my last post on this topic have been bugging me to post the followup, so here goes.
I like the iPad. I use mine all the time. There are a lot of great reasons to have one. It is the perfect travel companion: e-Reader, map, internet, videos, games. Amazing, don't leave home wihtout one. However, "replacing Michael Toy's laptop" is not one of the good reasons to own an iPad.
The experiment did not last very long, I quickly decided it wasn't going to work. For the record however, here are a few days of notes after trying to use the iPad, mostly as a tool to browse the internet and to write, here is the list of things which caused me run back to the comfort of my MacBook.
You can't really type on the pretend keyboard.
If you get the external keyboard, you are in a world of hurt. First of all, it isn't attached, which means you often have the iPad which you grabbed to look at a map and put down, but not the keyboard, which you didn't bother to pick up. Then you try and use the iPad without the keyboard and you discover that you can't type because even though you can't find the keyboard, the iPad knows it is out there and won't give the pretend keyboard. Apple does not make this experience easy, seamless or pleasant.
Even with practice, it is clunky and hard to select a precise fragment of text with the touch screen.
Often when reading web pages, you can't get the copy UI to appear at all, making it impossible, for example, to quote something wihtout re-typing it yourself.
Said quoting is almost impossible, because you can't have a word processor open to type the quote into, while at the same time looking at a web page, since you can only see one app at a time.
I like to be on AIM and Jabber, so people can interrupt me while I am doing other things, and I never found a good multi protocol chat client that made that experience work nearly as well as running iChat or Adium does on a Mac.
I like to use client-side blog editing software for creating posts ( mars edit, for example ), and I never found one which was worth even a free download.
If I try to use the DOM-magnifcent editors built into the web sites of blogging software, when I try to insert an image, I hit "Browse ..." and the web site can't find my photo album, because it is hidden from the web browser.
There are bugs in Safari and there are times ( like trying to send a private message in Facebook ), when there is no way to cause the magic software keyboard to appear. This causes many web applications to be useless.
The captcha on many web sites display as broken images, making impossible for me to verify that I am not a robot.
When writing an e-mail, there is no easy way to refer to a second e-mail is to save the message as a draft, then go read the second e-mail, then come back and edit the first one again.
Data is a problem. On your laptop you can organize your data any way you like, and you can easily take a piece of data from one program to the next. On your iPad, each program can only see its own data, so it is impossible without the help of some third agent, to share data between apps. Sometimes you get lucky. Images for example, can often be shared between apps if you can figure out how to get them into the Photo Album. Also you can sometimes use third party solutions, like Dropbox, if both the apps you are using allow it. All in all though, it is complicated, messy, broken and annoying.
I stopped pretty soon into the experiment. I knew I wasn't going to be a convert. If I had kept going, the list would have kept growing. The iPad is a weird device, doesn't replace a phone, doesn't replace a laptop. It is wonderful, but weird and un-neccessary.
I am seeing a trend of people figuring out crazy cool things to do where you have an iPad WITH a computer as a companion. If there is a future where people start "needing" iPads, my guess is, it will be in that direction.
I have been in Atlanta this week, and I would like to file a report with the internet. If you arent' interested in my insistence on finding a meaningful Christian faith, but read my blog for some other reason, this would be a good post to skip.
Emergent Village is an experiment in underwriting an ongoing conversation about the Christian faith. While manifestations of this conversation are often criticized from both the right and left of the Church, it continues to be, for me, the one place where sanity and hope can be found.
One of the things that Emergent Village does is to host an annual "Theological Conversation", where highly respected and influential figures, mostly theologians, sit down with pastors, and lay people, and weird outliers ( like me ) and discuss their ideas. I keep going to these events because I have a faith which I cannot shake, even though I mostly agree with people who think there are many good reasons for staying away from Christianity.
Mostly, I don't show up at these to rub elbows with the luminaries. The reason I attend these things is to have face time with the other lost souls who are looking for meaning in a faith which so often seems broken and in need of healing, but which we cannot let go of. So it kind of doesn't matter to me who is the famous person, what matters to me is the friends I will sit and eat meals with, and the things we will laugh about, and the stories we will tell about failure and struggle, but also about prophetic vision and hope.
So if I were REALLY going to tell you what happened this week at "The 2010 Emergent Village Theological Conversation Post-colonialism and the Missional Future of the Church", I would have to tell you about reading poetry to each other in a corner of an Irish pub, or seeing people holding the micro-bronsink and talking about the authority of text, racing through an exhibit in the art museum before rushing to the airport, or the chance to wonder with another friend about what we in the privileged class need to learn from post-colonial voices, while playing golf.
But everyone wants to know "How was it?", so I will now attempt to talk about the "official" program, even though it is really the unofficial part which seems to be the most cherished part of these events for me. I can't really give you a five point overview, because I am not able to operate that way. This is just "How it all passed before my eyes". ( for example Julie Clawson, one of the great people I get to hang out with at these events, blogs a completely different experience from me, at onehandclapping and I recognize she and I as having been at the same location, but as you can see if you read her piece, came away with a very different impression )
Before I got here, I wasn't actually that excited about "post colonial missional blah blah". A lot of criticism from the left of Emergent Village was centered around issues of diversity, and this conference almost felt like a reaction to criticism, trying to prove something, and not a comfortable next step. I wasn't interested in getting my "Post Colonial Missional" merit badge and it was only my love of the people who make up the emergent conversation that got me to Atlanta.
Plus, I was already well aware of the horror that Christianity seems to leave in it's historical wake. And sitting down for two days and listening to people talk about it didn't seem to be something which would actually be helpful to me. So I was not a tremendously enthusiastic listener as the conference began. Once things started though, that changes almost instantly. It started at a lunch before the first session, where I actually got to talk to Richard Twiss, one of the speakers.
Richard Twiss is a Lakota follower of Christ. His story parallels mine in that in some ways. We were both captured by faith, sort of against our wills, and then turned to the church to ask "What do I do with this faith?", and then we have both spent years trying to unlearn some of the things that we were taught in our faith-youth.
I read Richard's book "One Church Many Tribes - Following Jesus The Way God Made You", and I was NOT excited about listening to Richard before I came to the event. The book seemed to be mostly an Evangelical-aimed apologetic that a uniquely Native American Christianity could still be considered Christian, and even Evangelical. I don't have any question that there should be a uniquely Native American Christianity, or even that there should be a Native American relation to the Christ story which is so different that it makes it hard to call it Christianity. So I was not expecting to learn much from Richard Twiss.
What I learned at the lunch was that in most of the Native American Church, the predominant view is that Western Christianity is the perfect truth of God, and that any "uniquely Native American" aspects of faith are considered evil-which-must-be-expelled. I think I, as a Silicon Valley Nerd, feel like "my people", have been treated in a way which parallels some of this (not in the genocide and oppression, but in the colonization of an "other"). We have been told that our culture is evil and bad, our ideas of truth and beauty are misinformed, and that we must come inside the church and do all the things churchy people do, and become like them, because that is what God wants. I heard Richard Twiss as someone who has been fighting a fight for many many years, and that his struggle was close enough to mine in this area that I could learn from listening to his story.
So every time Richard spoke of praying and drums and dancing, I was searching in my mind for what the parallel of that would be, and feeling more hope that I would find these things than I have in a long time.
The next speaker was Musa Dube. I was not able to finish her book "Postcolonial Feminist Interpretation of the Bible" due to time constraints, but I did read a lot of it. I loved what I read. Here was an author willing to say out loud what has always seemed to me to be the dirty little secret of Christianity. The Beloved Bible is actually in many ways a horrible nasty book. The things that God does, or God tells his people to do, are awful. How then is God good?
While I claimed earlier that I was comfortable with the idea of a Native American faithfulness which did not look like Christianity, I found myself, in reading this book, becoming uncomfortable with where the book seemed to be headed in it's formulation of a post colonial faithfulness. I needed to hear more, to to understand more of this discomfort I was feeling, because I wondered what it was I was uncomfortable with.
So I listened as she spoke, as she told stories, and as she sang. I began to understand my fear a little. For me, I was transformed by my encounter with the Jesus story. However this transformation had nothing to do with intellectual assent. I just discovered that I believed, as if belief had been given to me. I had been evangelized before then, and it was a horrible experience, I ran away from people who tried to tell me the Good News. For me, the part of my story where I am transformed, where the Michael who exists after the gift is somehow different than the Michael before the gift, is very important.
As I listened to Musa Dube talk about how violent the Bible is towards "other", it felt to me like I was losing my story of becoming other. If the violence and destruction left behind Christianity is the inevitable consequence of the biblical approach to the other, and a post-colonial faith is by necessity therefore accepting of people and cultures as they are, what is left to believe in? I clearly seem to have this idea of transformation from one thing to another at the core of my concept of faith.
I repeatedly heard, in Musa Dube's book, hints of a set of ideas which would do trememdous violence to my faith, and I kept waiting for her to complete those sentences, to say it out loud ...
It never came.
I think the biggest lesson I learned from this whole conference is watching how Richard and Musa spoke to us. In the sense that they are outsiders, made wise by their long years of wrestling with the things we are only now seeing, they could have said ( as we often do when given a chance ) "I am an outsider, I see you and your struggles clearly, I can tell you what is wrong and what you should do". However, neither of them did that. Neither of them made us into someone who needed their help. They refused to do the thing which was done with them, even when people almost begged them to do it, to tell them "What does this means for Western Christians".
Instead they showed us some things about how to be friends, and how to tell stories, and how gifts of generosity and hope can be shared.
The third speaker was Colin Greene, author of “Metavista: Bible, Church and Mission in an Age of Imagination.” If he cared, I would have to buy him a pint and offer my apologies, becase I totally tuned him out. In an early panel I heard him trying to rescue the notion of "biblical" equating to "god-shaped" by hinting at some ironic hermeneutic which you could glean from the text by some clever gesture and my brain just switched off.
I am not saying I don't have anyting to learn from him. In fact I think the imaginary conversation between us over that pint might be really interesting. I think there is a uniquely American way forward which is different from the European way forward, or maybe even from the Irish way forward, and I think I could have gone a long way towards discovering that, had I been ready to listen, but I wasn't. I'm taking all the blame for that. Maybe I was just burned out, and had no more energy for processing new and chalenging thoughts. I hope I have a chance to hear him speak at a future date when I am more open to listening.
That's the news that is fit to print of my week in Atlanta. I'm looking forward to showing up the next time Emergent Village opens the doors.
To acknowledge all the hard work and extra hours put in to reach the June 17th OnLive launch, the company has given every single employee an iPad. I had previously snuck a couple days on a borrowed iPad to see what I thought of them, and what I thought was: "Gorgeous, Fun, Toy"
Now that I have my very own iPad and can buy apps and give it a real trial, I've decided to try and take a serious run at this. I am putting away my laptop and trying to use my iPad for all my mobile computing. With the sweet little bluetooth keyboard that Apple sells and the right iPad case ( pictured here ), it does LOOK like it might be a reasonable computer, but is it? Stay tuned for the results.
Here is what the OnLive(TM) system looks like on the iPad. The design was done by Emily Adams at OnLive. It is gorgeous. I did a lot of the work to bring this beast to life, including the decision to stick the controls on the top of the screen.
Absolutely, 100% of the time, everyone who sees either a picture of this, or sees the actual application running on the iPad, the first question is "Why are the controls on the top of the screen, that is a horrible idea."
And, 100% of the time, once they hold the iPad in their hands, they instantly get it, and agree that the controls work better on the top of the screen. With the controls on the bottom, the weight of the iPad makes it hard to hold on to, and the fear that having the controls on the top would cause you to block the screen with your fingers turns out not to be much of a problem. It turns out, on a touch based device, you are waving your hands over the screen all the time.
I am not a reknowned expert on UI design, but I have been doing this for a few years and so I have some wisdom gained from battle scars. And I have learned two important lessons. The first lesson is this. Users have no clue what they want. People will tell you all kinds of weird stuff that they want, but they don't really want it, all they really know is that they are unhappy with what they have. If you give them what they ask for, they will roast you for giving them crappy UI ... you job is to listen through the requests for the real problems hiding inside the user response. The second thing I have learned is, "Don't be an arrogant asshole, just give the users what they ask for".
So the trick, when the users are telling you something that you think is wrong, is to figure out which story are you living in? Are you living in the story where you serve the user best by thinking you are smarter than they are, or do you serve the user best by assuming that they are smarter than you? I have no magic way to tell the difference between those two moments, but I do know this.
I chose wrong for the iPad client.
If this were a shipping product (it isn't, this is just a technology demonstration), the right thing to do would be to let the user drag the UI to the top or the bottom. It isn't shipping and while I loved the idea of dragging the UI bar, I didn't have time to make it draggable, I had to make a call.
Based on my experience with everyone who had ever held the thing in their hands, I decided that I was smarter than the users, and I should put the bar on the top of the screen. That was a bad decision.
Because this isn't a product, it is just a demo. There have been a number of videos posted on the internet because we are using the iPad in our announcements and people are interested in seeing high end games running on a thin platform. I see, in the comment streams for these videos, "What idiot put the controls on the top?"
Here's all kinds of arrogance. The commenter shows typical internet arrogance. If you see something you don't agree with, it is stupid. The idea that maybe you might learn something unexpected by listening never even occurs to the typical commenter.
And then there is me, because the commenter is right. Maybe a few hundred people in the world will ever hold this demonstration client in their hands and be able to understand why the buttons belong on top. On meanwhile, 83,000 (so far), of people on the internet are looking at it and wondering what idiot put the buttons on top.
Everyone I ever tested the iPad client with told me the same thing, and I was unable to hear them, because I had forgotten that this was a demo. I was all focused on making it as usable as possible in the very short time I had to work on it.
So this is my apology and my confession, I should have listened and put the buttons on the bottom.
Here's the YouTube video if you are interested.
where's the "ocd" mentioned in the title? well, i thought it would be obvious. i am sitting here obsessing about "buttons on bottom vs. buttons on top" the thing is in the can and done, it is still bugging me that i didn't get it exactly right.
there's a small group of poets gathered in the virtual world that i
am fortunate to be a part of. we share poems as they are taking shape,
cheer for each other, and generally give each other courage and
feedback.
this friday night, upstairs at red rock coffee the poetry cabal comes
out of hiding to read poetry out loud in front of people.
i have spammed every other way i can think of with this information, so this is probably NOT the first time you have heard of it, but i also don't want to leave a stone unturned ... moss allergy.
you missed "sacraments of the natural" and the incredible experience of me throwing down a reading of "haunted" and you have been hoping for another chance to catch some mtoy poetry out in the open air.
... or maybe you love improvised music, and would show up anywhere to hear Organamatronic spin their sonic webs?
... or maybe you just want to taste some of the incredible artisan coffee they are brewing at the red rock, and need an excuse to get yourself out of the house on a friday night.
whatever it takes, come on down to downtown mountain view, 201 castro, upstairs at the red rock, 8pm-10pm. it will be wild and fun.
I don't do the kind of evangelism where I look for people who have the wrong opinions about Jesus and I try to talk them into having my opinions about Jesus. The evangelism that the saved people do to the poor lost people
I try to do the kind of evangelism which we can all do with each other, no matter what we believe. Telling the stories which help us to live into our roles as caretakers of this marvelous and mysterious existence, our life and times.
However, I am a Christian Person, and Christian Persons have a Christian Duty, which I have blogged about before. Today I re-visit that blog post as a video, enjoy:
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