The Prussia Periodicals

Biblical Blot Blog #2  Everything moves too fast. Everyone prefers videos over books, passivity over having to think and work. Entertainment is the pinnacle of our society. Like royals in a throne room, we demand the jester to keep us from being bored. We insist upon frivolity from the fool, but if it’s too witty then we like King Leer, will have the Fool whipped. Before television became so common in the 50’s, who was constantly entertained but the regal upper class? Gatsby had his parties, Jane Austen’s debutants had dances and dinners. And now all people from all socioeconomic situations can be constantly entertained as we move about with our screens, soon to be glasses, or headsets, or hopefully not chips in our head.  Why do most shy from the fulfilling work of reading? Thinking? Writing? I can speak from my experience: i lazy!  Id rather sit back and be poured into than pour out my thoughts and feelings, struggling to put pen to paper (metaphorically here) and shout...

Blogging 15 years later: A decade and a half ago, I traveled to Europe. I enjoyed teaching, found a passion, and ran with it. I also grew deeper in my relationship with God, experiencing him not just in the Bible Belt but for myself in a big way.  Returning to Virginia, I got a job washing windows, and went back to school at Old Dominion University. I earned a Master's in Education, with a state certificate to teach secondary English. Meanwhile, while helping out at Triple R Ranch summer camp, I found my best friend, Kristen. Many dates and conversations later, I moved to live near here while she finished school at Asbury University, proposed, and we got married 10 years ago in 2014.  We moved to Virginia where I continued to wash windows, and I happened upon a job at NET Academy in Norfolk - but it was only part time. So I applied all over for a full time teaching job. The King's Academy in South Carolina offered me a position. My wife and I discussed and prayed. If they offe...

May 21-24 Mont d'Olmes/ Perpignan/ Toulouse/ Foix/ Mont d'Olmes Today is actually the 24th but these are excerpts from my journal that I took with me: May 21: I'm sitting on a hill by Mont d'Olmes. I hear wind and water and the flutter of my paper and the scratch of my pencil. The sun is rising before me and the mountains including the one peak I conquered yesterday are to my right. I smell spring! The hills stretch out of the valley but only go so far- just like my vision as haze of a new day envelopes the French countryside. Will I be at the beach later today or tomorrow? It's roughly 6:30 am. I'm thinking of Psalm 18:1. The clouds are covering the rising sun except for one glorious burst of light that is blaring through the gray-blue clouds like a soloing trumpet over the rest of the orchestra. A warm breeze just passed over me but is now gone. I'm slightly chilled again. May 22: Oh joy upon joys! I'm sitting on a Mediterranean beach! Despite the fact...

May 20th Mont d'Olmes So I never posted that lost blog entry on time. I'll do it now. What a great week! The kids were super, the new counselors that got transferred to us were great, the weather was fantastic. The trees are green everywhere. There are some late bloomers but there is green were there was brown, gray, and white. This mountain site is turning into something beautiful. In an hour, I'm gonna go hike up the mountain again and see if anyone is interested in joining me. A car load already left for Perpignan- or however you spell it- and then tomorrow, Aladdin, Carebear, Doodle, and I are following. We will go the Mediterranean Sea, hang at the beach, maybe see a castle, see the town and chill. CJ, Grizz, Dotcom, Indy, and Brooklyn are doing there own thin tonight as we stay at this beautiful mountain. Two weeks ago, I do not think this place was beautiful. Majestic, maybe, as any mountain should be. But lovely to the eye? No. I'm sitting outside for the first ...

May 17th Mont d'Olmes Today is Sunday but Discover America Day. Usually that is Tuesday but since the kids came on Saturday and we got almost zero-weekend, the schedule is messed up. However, we do get a four day weekend starting Thursday. Tomorrow is Wild West Day, and following is Hollywood Day. And then it is Graduation/ Farewell Day and they are gone by Wednesday afternoon. Being on activities is more preference. I am certified to teach English but Activities is more fun and I feel like I get more free time. And my free time is during ESL classes, not the afternoon games and activities. So my job is to play rather than teach. I like it. I bought my plane ticket. Did I already write about that? Maybe. I have been entering blog entries on the camp computers as well as my laptop. More so the former as of late since my laptop is being held up by packaging tape on both sides. The monitor was iffy for a while but now it flops in the breeze like ... something that flops. My English is...

May 16th Mont d'Olmes This is my last Satuday at Mont d'Olmes. Because we have no weekend this weekend and the kids arrive in ten minutes, next weekend is a four day weekend. Brooklyn, Indy, and some others are talking about a bunch of us going to the beach. So yeah, I'll be going to a Meditteranean beach. Did I spell Mediteranean right? I don't have time to check. The children are coming! The children are coming! I thought I would have time to write more on this deserted mountain but apparently not. During the evenings, everyone plops down and we either go to sleep or stay up and talk for a while. In Prague, this blog was consistent; now I'm lucky to get two entries off in a week for you faitfhul friends, family, fans. But don't you worry, two more weeks and I'm back in the States!