Last week I said, “In other news it can be a fool’s game to predict the end of winter in Stockholm because February and all of March could easily be winter yet it does feel like it just isn’t going to come this year. Time to pick up the running and get the weekly totals back above 50km.”
This week it has been -7 and snowy. Fools game and I was the fool. Also for a variety of reasons haven’t published anything here although I’ve been working on some bigger posts.
You Should Read These
- In Praise of Being Inconvenient – excellent essay from Nadya Williams
- YOLO Is the New Epicureanism
- How to Respond to a Culture You Don’t Like Anymore – good advice to churches from Carey Niuewhof
- Why Didn’t Denmark Sell Greenland? – Excellent way of framing the question
- Oscar Bernadotte according to Wikipedia, ‘the only member of Swedish royalty known to be born again‘
- The Quran Gets Crucifixion Wrong
- Improving Flexibility Is Surprisingly Easy which for someone as flexible as a brick this is good news
You Should Look At This
Usually the photos I post are beauty because we need that but sometimes photography can be used in other powerful ways such as this:
Split Photos Highlight the Stark Disparities Between War and Comfort Across the World
You Should Listen To This
Soothing.
You Should Watch This
Wow.
This Week’s Postings
Nuffink.
From The Archives
This is what should mark us out but seldom does, that we actually put really very little store by their wares. I shouldn’t be all bothered by a new phone, tablet or pc. I might buy one but I’m not ‘interested’ in it, beyond ensuring a wise purchase, what we buy should consume very little of our conversation, our thinking, our dreaming. Instead, too often we look and are mesmerised by the false promises that are being sold to us and getting caught up in the worldly buzz of a new product that will be fading into the distance before we celebrate next Christmas.
We all live in Vanity Fair now but our trade and traffic is in Heaven.
I hope you enjoy your weekend. Do let me know if there’s something here you appreciated or if you see something you think would be worth sharing, let me know!
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