The downtown beautification project is captured in this computer animation.
See it for yourself and enjoy!
http://www.downtownrising.com/city_creek/flash/tourVid_large.php
Once there, click on the video.
Saturday, December 13, 2008
Friday, December 12, 2008
Obama's Leftism - A deeper Examination
http://www.commentarymagazine.com/viewarticle.cfm/obama-s-leftism-12961
A colleague scoffs at the idea of Obama being a Marxist. Then, at least entertain this possibility in Commentary.
A colleague scoffs at the idea of Obama being a Marxist. Then, at least entertain this possibility in Commentary.
Amid the Gay Marriage Controversy, Read These Ideas
http://manwomanmarriage.blogspot.com/
A compilation of important articles.
Suggestions are welcome.
Truth is the object.
A compilation of important articles.
Suggestions are welcome.
Truth is the object.
Wednesday, October 15, 2008
Replenishing the Soul at LDS General Conference
My soul drinks deeply from the source of living waters during conference.
How is it that they know so well the deepest personal struggles in the most private chambers of this soul?
Why does so much strength, wisdom and counsel fall like manna from heaven?
Beat up by life, in such need 0f nourishment, we lap up dews from heaven and gain strength to carry on.
In my Savior I can do all things as He strengthens me, though deeply depleted these past dozen years.
The promise is: On wings of eagles shall we rise in His Power. On such whispered promises of power hangs my faith and work.
How is it that they know so well the deepest personal struggles in the most private chambers of this soul?
Why does so much strength, wisdom and counsel fall like manna from heaven?
Beat up by life, in such need 0f nourishment, we lap up dews from heaven and gain strength to carry on.
In my Savior I can do all things as He strengthens me, though deeply depleted these past dozen years.
The promise is: On wings of eagles shall we rise in His Power. On such whispered promises of power hangs my faith and work.
Sunday, August 24, 2008
My Heart Yearns for Southern Utah University's Shakespeare Fest
Every summer, I remember taking my youngest brother and daughter to Cedar City to see the Shakespeare Festival, kidnapping her from college, in a whirl-wind weekend tour of the area, seeing Hamlet, the play she'd studied in high school.
Our driving over Hell's Backbone at midnight! Our talks about life, and where we were all going in the next ten years.
With wistful longing, I yearn for the plays, the slot canyons, the red rock cliffs, the Pink Cliffs, Kanab, St. George, Zion Canyon, the 1930's Depression era WPA tunnel carved through Vermillion rock and sandstone, the Grand Staircase-Escalante National Monument, Calf Creek, Hell's Backbone, the quiet and solitude, the family and friends.
And so I drove down to see Taming of the Shrew and Cyrano de Bergerac, yearning in my heart - seeing in my mind's eye the future settlement of the Great Basin in and around Fillmore.
What yearning this is I cannot explain. But it has to do with solitude and place.
Go see the Shakespeare Festival in Cedar City. Go to http://www.bard.org/ for a great weekend. Their Fall Season starts September 15 and runs till October 31.
Our driving over Hell's Backbone at midnight! Our talks about life, and where we were all going in the next ten years.
With wistful longing, I yearn for the plays, the slot canyons, the red rock cliffs, the Pink Cliffs, Kanab, St. George, Zion Canyon, the 1930's Depression era WPA tunnel carved through Vermillion rock and sandstone, the Grand Staircase-Escalante National Monument, Calf Creek, Hell's Backbone, the quiet and solitude, the family and friends.
And so I drove down to see Taming of the Shrew and Cyrano de Bergerac, yearning in my heart - seeing in my mind's eye the future settlement of the Great Basin in and around Fillmore.
What yearning this is I cannot explain. But it has to do with solitude and place.
Go see the Shakespeare Festival in Cedar City. Go to http://www.bard.org/ for a great weekend. Their Fall Season starts September 15 and runs till October 31.
Wednesday, August 20, 2008
Go Elsewhere for the Political
In order to not muddy these waters, you can find all political entries at this site:
http://countrymenlendmeyourears.blogspot.com/
This will retain the spirit of all things virtuous, lovely and of good report that you will find here.
http://countrymenlendmeyourears.blogspot.com/
This will retain the spirit of all things virtuous, lovely and of good report that you will find here.
Sunday, August 10, 2008
Don't Be Fooled by the Communist Party's PR Blitz
With the opening of the Beijing Olympics, the Communist Party wants the image of Tianamen Square, the Gates of Heavenly Peace, to be remembered not as a place of brutal repressive murder, but of a new openness.
However, the Communist Party, rarely mentioned in news reports in favor of mentioning China and its people, has never fully acknowledged its culpability in the murder of student protestors.
If it were truly open, it would acknowledge to its citizens and to the world the ugly naked horror that was that night attack on students.
The most famous image of Tianamen Square is of the young man with a white shirt and briefcase standing and blocking the line of tanks rolling into the Square. This image smacks the face of those Chinese who think that the brutal view of Tianamen is merely a foreign image.
Ask those related to the students who never came home that night, whose bodies were helicoptered quickly at night in mass bundles to be deposited somewhere in mass graves, if the brutality of Tianamen Square is a foreign image!
Amid the glitz of orchestrated euphoria and celebration, let us remember the thousands of young people who sculpted a Lady Liberty and wrote on banners the words of Thomas Jefferson - that All Men are endowed by their Creator with certain Unalienable Rights of Life, Liberty, and the Pursuit of Happiness.
All men and women yearn to breathe free, unless you're one of the millions of urbane, Communist free who value security of the People over freedom of the Individual.
Repressive regimes are always about mass graves, secrecy and buried truth.
However, the Communist Party, rarely mentioned in news reports in favor of mentioning China and its people, has never fully acknowledged its culpability in the murder of student protestors.
If it were truly open, it would acknowledge to its citizens and to the world the ugly naked horror that was that night attack on students.
The most famous image of Tianamen Square is of the young man with a white shirt and briefcase standing and blocking the line of tanks rolling into the Square. This image smacks the face of those Chinese who think that the brutal view of Tianamen is merely a foreign image.
Ask those related to the students who never came home that night, whose bodies were helicoptered quickly at night in mass bundles to be deposited somewhere in mass graves, if the brutality of Tianamen Square is a foreign image!
Amid the glitz of orchestrated euphoria and celebration, let us remember the thousands of young people who sculpted a Lady Liberty and wrote on banners the words of Thomas Jefferson - that All Men are endowed by their Creator with certain Unalienable Rights of Life, Liberty, and the Pursuit of Happiness.
All men and women yearn to breathe free, unless you're one of the millions of urbane, Communist free who value security of the People over freedom of the Individual.
Repressive regimes are always about mass graves, secrecy and buried truth.
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