<$BlogRSDURL$>

 

brandon williamscraig  

champagne taste and beer bottle pockets...

A Lisa wishlist (which I will update simply by making the date current when I add and delete things) because I need some place to put what I need to remember and because people keep asking. This will go away in an instant (as always) if Lisa feels uncomfortable with it being here. It is simply WAY more practical than an endlessly circulating email that instantly becomes out of date.

"Fiestaware pieces I would like eventually (not necessarily this Christmas, I'm just being greedy and covetous):
20-piece dinner service (this is the one with the small cup and saucer, *not* the 16-piece with the coffee mug)... in shamrock or tangerine or sunflower or plum or cinnibar or scarlet.
We already have the cobalt, and eventually I would like to have three sets.
The following serving pieces (arranged in no particular order)
would be great in any color *except* white, black, rose, or grey:
salt and pepper (round shape, not the ones with the handles), large disk pitcher, spoon rest, any serving platter, sugar and creamer with tray, coffee/tea pot, pedestal bowl, sauce boat."

Also possibly:



References to A m a z o n are attempts to be helpful but not necessarily endoresements. If something can be bought from local folks please do so.

Thanks for asking!

B

P.S. please be sure to check with me when
  • you'd like to know if somebody else has already purchased something, or
  • you have already purchased something mentioned here for an upcoming occasion (gift receipts are good when possible), or
  • you feel like it.
   | posted by Unknown @ 11/29/2006 01:32:00 PM

 

 

Aidan needed his diaper changed earlier today. How did I know? He went down the hall, picked up his travel changing kit and brought it back in to me with a "would now be good?" look. This follows his expressing hunger by delivering his airtight oatieOs container to my desk with some regularity. Clever fellow, that Sprout.
   | posted by Unknown @ 11/08/2006 06:08:00 PM

 

 

an introduction to the Pacific Coast Theological Society

Huston
Smith and I have been working together for some time. He has nominated me to the Pacific Coast Theological Society and asked that I send you a brief email with a bit about my background, work, and desire to participate in that group.


I am in the process of finishing my dissertation, working with the cultural terrain described and created when the languages of mythology and psychology intersect. As a student of David L. Miller, Christine Downing, Daniel C. Noel, and others identifying as "post-Jungian," reading and interacting with Thomas Moore, Sam Keen, and Huston Smith, and receiving advisory assistance from Dennis Slattery and William Doty, I have embarked on a phenomenological survey of traditional, contemporary, and emergent ideologies beneath living social structures and the theologies they imply. What emerges from this inquiry by association is a growing art of process, wherein how culture is created moves downstage of the industrial fascination with what it is possible to manufacture and distribute. Divinity often arrives in this equation in the guise of conflict itself, calling for a martial insistence on doing conflict well rather than defining peace in terms of its absence. Redefining peace in this way demands a new kind of purposeful community building which centralizes specific choice, co-creativity and governance, begins with social justice, and rediscovers the nourishing and terrifying mystery shrouding images of God wherever they may be found.

Since childhood I have been a professional vocalist and liturgist in the Christian church. As an adult I have participated fully and refrained from participating in both the United Methodist and Roman Catholic communities, and continue to visit and share in the ritual life of various faiths and local sects of various spiritual bodies, including the Karuk sweat tradition. Beginning my education immersed in the Montessori Method, I went on to a Jesuit College Prep high school and the University of Dallas for an intensive Liberal Arts Bachelors degree with emphasis in philosophy, theology, and history, a major in theater, and a semester of study in Rome. My graduate humanities degrees involve cultural study and criticism and are granted by Pacifica Graduate Institute as "Mythological Studies with an emphasis in Depth Psychology." Predominantly in the United States I teach and develop various Process Arts, a method called Associative Inquiry, a Japanese martial art called Aikido, and the non-profit Association Building Community and their Guardians of Peace project.

My first exposure to PCTS was finding and making reference to Claude Welch's writing on H. Richard Niebuhr, "The Making of an American Mind? and Andrew P. Porter "The Fertility of Niebuhr's Idea of Monotheism". I am grateful to Huston Smith for nominating me and hope to join in the conversation where it stands (or reclines, as the case may be) and look forward to many fruitful exchanges.



Brandon WilliamsCraig M.A.

(866) 236-0346


P.S. please let me know you received this and if there is anything I may help you with in the near future

Labels: , , , , ,

   | posted by Unknown @ 11/06/2006 03:51:00 PM

 

 

All original material here is Creative Commons License licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 3.0 License. All material not originated by the author is used in accordance with acceptable use practices governing public domain, academic study, and not-for-profit cultural development and critique. Any concerns about privacy or copyrights may be addressed by emails directed to public at bdwc dot net.

This page is powered by Blogger. Isn't yours?

  • Click here for RSS Feed