A March march with auntie in bandana and niece in sandals. Cute. (Taken with instagram)
Listening in the sun-drenched shadows. #pubmedia (Taken with instagram)
Offered gum to colleagues. Three distinctly different styles to dealing with the wrapper. (Taken with instagram)
And this is what runs off into Bassett Creek from a Minneapolis storm sewer. (Taken with instagram)
A generation of cousins at Wirth Lake. (Taken with instagram)
by Trent Gilliss, senior editor
Twitter is trending, dominated by the news of Rowan Williams’ retirement. At the end of December this year, Rowan Williams will exit his post as the Archbishop of Canterbury and take a position as the 35th Master of Magdalene College at the University of Cambridge.
Archbishop Williams’ successor will take on some challenging issues as the Church of England and the wider Anglican Communion of 77 million faces internal struggles and debates about the ordination of gay clergy and shrinking attendance. But the Church needs to choose the 105th Archbishop of Canterbury first. But, how is a successor chosen and who chooses?
“The responsibility for choosing the next Archbishop of Canterbury rests with the Crown Nominations Commission (CNC). Its task is to submit the name of a preferred candidate (and a second appointable candidate) to the Prime Minster who is constitutionally responsible for tendering advice on the appointment to the Queen.
Once the Queen has approved the chosen candidate and he has indicated a willingness to serve, 10 Downing St will announce the name of the Archbishop-designate.
The College of Canons of Canterbury Cathedral formally elect the new Archbishop of Canterbury.
The election is confirmed by a commission of diocesan bishops in a legal ceremony (the Confirmation of Election), which confers the office of Archbishop on him.
The new Archbishop is formally enthroned in Canterbury Cathedral.”
Me and my lady on a gorgeous March day in Minnesota. She’s still got it. (Taken with instagram)
Crawling the underbelly arches bridging the Mississippi. (Taken with instagram)
A European gigolo in the making? (Taken with instagram)
“Good things come from a quiet place: study, prayer, music, transformation, worship, communion. The words ‘peace’ and ‘quiet’ are all but synonymous, and are often spoken in the same breath. A quiet place is the think tank of the soul, the spawning ground of truth and beauty.
A quiet place outdoors has no physical borders or limits to perception. One can commonly hear for miles and listen even farther. A quiet place affords a sanctuary for the soul, where the difference between right and wrong becomes more readily apparent. It is a place to feel the love that connects all things, large and small, human and not; a place where presence of a tree can be heard. A quiet place is a place to open up all your senses and come alive.”
—Gordon Hempton, from One Square Inch of SilencePhoto by Eden Politte/Flickr, cc by-nc 2.0
~Trent Gilliss, senior editor
I pitched Gordon Hempton for an interview with Krista Tippett after reading his interview with Leslie Goodman in The Sun. I had never thought about quiet in quite the way he pointed — not just as the absence of noise, but the presence of everything from that place. Quiet can be cacophonous!
Krista’s interview finally came to fruition and was one of the most delightfully quirky conversations I’ve experienced from behind the glass. Of course, the man who “tracks” sound for a living is a producer, but he’s truly been formed by his many years of listening to quiet. He’s passionate about his mission, and has his finger on the pulse of something most of us don’t contemplate until we’re faced with the idea. Then we know what he’s got his finger on
“In my experience, it’s been my hair that’s been more of an issue than my skin color. People totally change the way they treat me when my hair is different. If my hair is straight, people don’t look twice. They think I’m Indian, so I guess I look safe. But if my hair is curly, all of sudden it’s an issue. I’m risky. ‘What is she? Is she Black? She can’t be Black. She has some mix of something, but she’s definitely got some Black.’”
—Sosena Solomon, “Ethiopian”
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Raindog gets after it on the shaggy New Zealand wool.. (Taken with instagram)
A family outing at the MN State HS Wrestling Championships final. (Taken with Instagram at Xcel Energy Center)
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Cabin in Swedish Lapland.
Photographed by Henrik Bonnevier.