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Nice op-ed from the NY Times about faith in the Episcopal church.  Gets a little sarcastic at the end but still a nice message.  It's nice to hear something from the Religious Left.

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A few months ago I put up the gallery for Phil & Lydia's wedding.  I forgot to add a few more panorama shots.  Here they are now.

Now that I'm back from 1863 it's time to get back into web design.  Almost a year ago I wrestled with Facebook, trying to get it to publish updates from my blog.  I won.  Now the dance has begun again.

I can't tell you how excited I am to wear blue wool again.

You know I'm pretty green.  I don't mean in terms of being inexperienced and not getting what's going on, although that may also be true.  I meant in terms of being environmentally friendly.  My family diverts about 90% of our trash, and that includes the disposable diapers.  (We even tried using compostable diapers.)  So imagine my joy when I discovered this amazing new product.  Just feast your eyes:

It's funny because it's true.  Credit to Rob Lawton for this one.

The period in Western history after the Dark Ages but before the Enlightenment is known as the Renaissance because it was a rediscovering--or literally "rebirth"--of forms of art, technology, and philosophy that had generally been lost since ancient times.  The implication in calling it a "Renaissance" is that it all already existed in the ancient world, and our society was not inventing new things but merely becoming aware once more.  Of course, that's not entirely true.  Music, art, theater and fashion were more advanced during the Renaissance than they had ever been during