Archive for January 18th, 2012

Paradise Found

We were blessed to enjoy a multi-generational family vacation in beautiful Hawaii recently. Below are a few of my photos from the trip. The flag flies over the U.S.S. Arizona Memorial at Pearl Harbor. Looking out towards Turtle Island off the coast of Oahu. Bali Hai called to us from a restaurant on Kauai. At Haleakala National Park on Maui I look down at the cinder cones. Girls hula in […]

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Paradise Lost

Happy New Year, friends! I’ve been reading (off and on) from John Milton’s Paradise Lost. It’s wonderful, and I mean that in the classical sense that it provokes wonder within me. I hated Milton in college. Hated him. He bored me because I didn’t understand him. I can tell I didn’t understand him because I’ve been reading my handwritten notes on the pages of my college text, and they’re completely […]

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