I have been watching Art:21 documentaries with the wife & kids lately. If you are not familiar, Art:21 is a PBS documentary series which explores the works & artists of contemporary visual arts; they build each episode upon a theme and pick 4-5 artists to highlight. It has been interesting looking at how these contemporary [...]

There has been this nagging question for many years, which is better {or rather which is right} to sacrifice one’s self & aspirations for those around you or to sacrifice it all for some great accomplishment. Translated, is it better to be the family man or hero (be it politically/militarily, defeating fascism; or scientifically, curing [...]

I’ve been thinking about hypocrisy recently, and the following half-baked idea came to mind: My Christian life is like the ridiculous consumer driven ‘green eco-friendly’ products. We Americans are an idealistic lot on the whole. We like to dream big. We like to talk about change—though the actual following through is where we often fall short. How [...]

Recently my daughter was playing with our names, making abbreviated versions of each of the family’s first names. Being exceptionally interesting to me at the time it lead me down this rabbit hole of a thought. My name is Jonathan, though I have been called many things over the years. I’m also rather peculiar about [...]

I just finished a short biography of Che Guevara (Che Guevara: A Life by Nick Caistor). There is much I could say about him as a man, his ideology, and of course his military actions, though I will limit myself to some of his thoughts while working in Cuba post revolution. Guevara had a rather [...]