Entries from September 2008

September 30, 2008

We’re Number 1!!

   Can you imagine a golfer standing over the tee: he checks his stance, checks his arms, pulls the club back then sends a rocketing arc into a new Titlelist golfball… inside a marble tiled shower room.  If so you can imagine my mental and emotional focus these last few days.  Everything is everywhere, and trying [...]

September 12, 2008

When the Holy Spirit sneaks in…

  One of the great blessings of my life was the time I spent at Harding Graduate School.  We arrived on campus in 1984 and were greeted by the biggest snowstorm in a decade (people were wearing shirts that said “Ski Mt. Moriah”- a Memphis Street).  I hadn’t intended on going to graduate school, I was [...]

September 3, 2008

Camera Angles: Republicans, Democrats, and the Beijing Olympics

  If you are a late night TV watcher, a conniossieur of CNN, or a general scavenger of all things “late breaking” it has been a long month.  It started with the Beijing Olympics, then you shifted seats for the Democratic National Convention, then coming up for air only momentarily before the Rupublicans took the stage.  [...]