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| Retiring.So I've been offered a freelance journaling position at BusinessWeek, and the efforts of maintaining four blogs are not within my realm of possibility. People like Enron, who are superhero(in)es, can do this. I'm no Superman.
Look for me at www.rainierisms.com, www.businessweek.com, and in your local address book. I'll be around, somewhere. :)
Besides: I'm not in the cave anymore. The world is my hiding place now.
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| it's lovely seeing friends live life in a way that makes others smile.
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| confession:
about two days before I started the most expensive journey of my life, I had second thoughts.
i'm not a businessman, i'm an artist.
i don't want to analyze shit for the rest of my life, i'm a musician.
whatever happened to this plan to be a pro triathlete?
yeah. so sometimes i wonder if i'm just lying to myself about all this, that the effort is really just a sordid attempt at impressing other people.
but then there's the times where i realize that UNDERSTANDING business is an art and a sport as well. it doesn't make someone tug at the heartstrings like a good chorus or a perfect throw to home can. but it's an art, for sure.
music, art, sport...these can all make a man rise in the morning or collapse in defeat.
but so can money. and there's been too many people bastardizing it for too long, i'd say.
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| ...an excerpt from an email I wrote today. "All that said, I plan on taking a hiatus from church when I arrive in Ann Arbor, because I’m not entirely sure that church is where I’m encountering God fully at the moment. I feel His presence in the Cascades or while reading articles on social justice or examining policy issues in Congo, but rarely during a worship song. I see Him in the faces of others when I serve communion, but never during a young adult ministry event. I think the frustrations of attempting to contribute to the church over the past few years have gotten to me, and for the first time in my eight-year active walk with Christ, I’m ready to move on and examine which parts of the institution I’ve become hardened to. I hope it’s briefly, really, but your prayers as I go through this transition are most definitely appreciated. I’m going to be surrounded by classmates from dozens of countries and religions, and as I pursue the cause of the oppressed, I want to understand their perspective on it all. Over the next few decades, I’ll encounter people who have never even heard of Jesus yet espouse the same commitment to social justice, and it’s outside of the walls of a church where I can see what makes them tick." I'm actually....really, really excited about this. | | |
| Guilty pleasure: I still read the Indianapolis Star online just for the letters to the editor and to read the online responses. | | |
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