Each summer Japanese kids go to neighborhood shops and fancy department stores and come home with their very own stag beetles. Some have giant pincers; others have horn-like mandibles. Hundreds of tho...

I was scrolling down the list of blogs that I read regularly, and I stopped on a post by Peter Rollins. He’s a Jesus follower, writer and teacher. Imagine my surprise to read the following:Without e...

The sheer creativity of people amazes me. “Her Morning Elegance” by Oren Lavie....

This is really amazing.There are 178 people in the picture, all shot in the course of 20 days from the same spot on a railroad bridge on Warschauer Strasse in Berlin in the summmer 2007....

I’d really like to post a recent photo, but I haven’t had time to go shoot any…Reia is a bigtime fan of Angela Aki. All of my daughters can sing Tegami from start to finish (Aki’s hit song fro...

This is referring to Britain, but it may as well be directed at the USA:This recession is not a failure of market economics. It is a reassertion of market economics after a decade in which we paid our...

I’ll be going to Cambodia in less than 2 weeks with a couple of volunteers. I’ve got the kids that I’ll see there on my mind. This is Roth. His parents died of AIDS, and then a Cambodian family ...

Are you creative? Photograher, artist, writer??Here is a blog about the daily routines of people who have written, painted, and otherwise expressed their way into history. It’s fascinating to glimps...

This photo shows children in Dey Krahorm (a neighborhood in Phnom Penh, Cambodia) with some activists in the background. It was taken in December, 2007. The residents were gathered to resist being for...

Japan has been saturated with Obama the past few days. The network news called in specialists to analyze his inaugural address, which was printed in newspapers and carefully studied. Obama’s 27 year...

President Obama was inaugurated today. He took the oath of office proudly with his full name. For one day, nearly 80 percent of Americans signaled their approval. People of all races and creeds stood ...

Andrew Sullivan had a piece in the Sunday Times about Obama’s inauguration. Here’s a quote that Sullivan posted on his own blog today:He doesn’t charm like Clinton did and Bush tried to. Unlike ...

Posting videos of my kids singing is pure self-indulgence. I’m hope you’ll enjoy it as least halff as much as I do. Anyone who lives in Japan doesn’t need an introduction. For everyone else, Pon...

Time and again Henri Cartier-Bresson found himself in the right place and, with perfect timing, captured the moment on his Leica. Now he has a new breed of competition: millions and billions (er, mill...

This is the funniest thing. I’m tearing up as I type.Microsoft has some new software called Songsmith that automatically creates a background track to match any vocal. Somebody decided to give it Da...

Recently, I discovered Epinoia Cafe, a very interesting online thingie (conversation, magazine, community…). It’s an “emergent” conversation, whatever that means. I don’t want that label, bu...

What do you think?Learn more about hugs at freehugscampaign.org (Photo credit: a hug is all what we need by ajpscs)...

Most of us are at ease in discussing what makes for a good life, but we typically become tongue-tied and nervous when the discussion turns to a good death.I humbly invite you to read the full essay by...

The fact that the USA had become a nation practicing torture on our enemies (real and suspected) was one of the reasons that I voted for Obama. Now this is gratifying:Our Constitution defines the rule...

A new temptation for cynical leaders and evangelists (both in business and religion, I think):If you can fake authenticity in the new year, you will have it made.Okay… But what is “it” and is ...