Writing Contest

This sounds cool, the "American Idol" of writing... I know I'm going to submit my book (the question is which one?)!
Peace,
Chris

A friend of mine is backpacking in Argentina!

Um... I guess we aren't following the ISG at all

Deep Thought Thursdays: Practice is important

I've thought some about what type of weekly features to have on Luthermatrix. I've come up with two, Deep Thought Thursdays and Sunday's Stories. Judah, or anyone else, if you have any good ideas for weekly features let me know, I'm still open to suggestions.
Peace,
Chris


Practice is Important
This past term I have been learning Hebrew. Yes REALLY learning Hebrew. Every day I go over verb conjugations, look at flash cards, and translate both from Hebrew to English and English to Hebrew. I’d done Hebrew before this year of course, but I hadn’t maintained a consistent routine of study. I had done class work, but that was it. Likewise when I learned German and Latin in High school, and the Clarinet in Junior High. I did the work, but no practice.
Work is what is required. Work is “the real thing.” Work is where brilliant insights are made and blinding flashes of inspiration flicker from some muse. Practice is the cornerstone of wrok. It is the furnace in which the tools of work are forged. Practice is what is necessary for the required. All the flashes of insight in the world are short-circuited without practice. A muse without practice would be emaciated, she would not speak, only grunt.
And I say all this not only about learning languages, but about living. What we do not consciously commit ourselves to maintaining will fall away.

Reader Input: bloging series

As those who read my blog know I've been rather lax in my blogging. I want to fix this, and the best way I can think of would be to start some sort of weekly feature on my blog. Problem being I'm short on ideas, so I'm asking you, the reader, to suggest a weekly feature for Luthermatrix.
Peace,
Chris

Are we at war again?

So, this reminds me of when one of our drones blew up a jeep in Yeman a couple of years ago. Basicly my question is are we at war in Somolia or do missle attacks not count as an act of war? Is this a 'police action'? How common is this kind of thing?
Not that I'm exactly Somolia intervention, I'm just wondering what this kind of attack is?
Peace,
Chris

1-20-09

I’m back in Cambridge

Well, after a couple of weeks vacation I’m back. I had a wonderful time. Hogmanay was canceled because of bad weather, but mom and I managed to find a Scottish pub to celebrate New Years in, we also went to the Highlands and saw Edinburgh Castle. Then we met up with Kyla in London and saw a lot of the city, from St. Paul’s to Shakespeare’s theater, Trafalger Square to the Tate Modern, Big Ben to Parliament Westminster to the Dali museum. I’ve also been introduced to my new favorite beer, Leffe.
Peace,
Chris