http://jerichobyname.blogdrive.com/ Call Me Jericho Mon, 07 Jan 2008 03:00:00 PST http://www.blogdrive.com Copyright 2008. Writing People Christianity http://jerichobyname.blogdrive.com/archive/15.html Mon, 07 Jan 2008 10:56:46 GMT I've been studying archetypal images for an upcoming novel and that got mixed up with thinking about stained glass windows (how they were used to teach Bible stories to the illiterate), which all wound up pitching a tent in my belief that the natural world was designed to be a mirror for the essential qualities of God. Just to warn you, I'm probably going to use the word "threefold" a bit gratuitously. It's been a lot of struggle, but I've settled on belief in the threefold salvation. That is to say, salvation requires three things (okay, evangelicals, have your cringe and keep reading).... (more) http://jerichobyname.blogdrive.com/comments?id=15 http://jerichobyname.blogdrive.com/archive/14.html Thu, 06 Dec 2007 03:01:58 GMT Watching her hands to keep us in time We wait for her rhythm to awaken our love Hoping our souls will be saved by her rhymes Entering, filed in our sleep-walking lines, Coffee cups and NIVs, we feel pious enough Watching her hands to keep us in time Standing, in pockets of unison, at her sign We lift our eyes to the noteless words above Hoping our souls will be saved by her rhymes Singing someone else's love song to the divine Our effortless eloquence remains something rough Watching her hands to keep us in time Alone in our silence, we pass the false wine Listening for what our body and... (more) http://jerichobyname.blogdrive.com/comments?id=14 http://jerichobyname.blogdrive.com/archive/13.html Wed, 07 Nov 2007 01:10:58 GMT The faces of saints appear in the curling wax of my great aunt's prayer candle as she weeps pyrrhic tears for her grandson. She whispers to the mahogany beads of a rosary that remembers the Civil War that my cousin will be the wounded animal that the wilderness preacher pulls from a rusted trap and seals his wounds still clotting. As a pious girl with a boy's haircut walks past, another candle ignites in hope that lost Johnny can find love running across the parapets of Lyon and Orleans with pyre singed sleeves raising the splintered left side of a door frame, a fleur-de-lis tacked to its... (more) http://jerichobyname.blogdrive.com/comments?id=13 http://jerichobyname.blogdrive.com/archive/12.html Tue, 06 Nov 2007 04:43:38 GMT The scariest part of loneliness is the knowledge is that it will never go away. You will feel lonely again, no matter what. You will be empty and no amount of food will fill you. You will be cold no matter how many blankets you wrap up in. And one day, your skin will ache for human contact so badly that you will, almost involuntarily, collide with someone at the mall, office, skybridge. One of my devotionals from this summer said "To be human is to be lonely." It also pointed out that certain people, especially artists, "are probably, to some degree, lonely all the time." It really doesn't... (more) http://jerichobyname.blogdrive.com/comments?id=12 http://jerichobyname.blogdrive.com/archive/11.html Sun, 04 Nov 2007 17:07:51 GMT I'm new at this. I took my vows from a Brother who doesn't even live in this country. There are days that I kind of forget who I am now. Because that's what I did, by taking vows I altered who I am. Ask any physicist, potential is just as much a defining characteristic of something what it is actually doing. I cut out a big chunk of potential when I became a monk. More than that, this isn't a well-established order where I can just go sit in a monastery and run a garden while becoming fluent in Latin; I'm part of the New Monasticism. We're trying to alter the definition of 'Monk' here. And,... (more) http://jerichobyname.blogdrive.com/comments?id=11 http://jerichobyname.blogdrive.com/archive/10.html Mon, 22 Oct 2007 07:19:00 GMT Written by Gypsie... He walks in a world of legend With the confidence of a destination And the course of a blind man, Who, for all his stumbling, Hears and senses things we will never see. We have laughed at the blind man, When he believed in the invisible, Spoke to empty spaces, And didn’t catch the exchanged looks, The silently mouthed words. Despite his confidence, we will never follow him. For his confidence, he will never follow us. When we turn back from the height of the mountain, The blind man will continue to climb, Believing that the very next step Might be the one to bring... (more) http://jerichobyname.blogdrive.com/comments?id=10 http://jerichobyname.blogdrive.com/archive/9.html Fri, 19 Oct 2007 06:27:52 GMT The maiden pouring out wine called me her brother Then led me to the man she called her son And told me, tomorrow, she'd be my mother When I brought the blood to cover The footsteps from where I'd come The maiden pouring out wine called me her brother And when I brought the wounds I'd given another Though I had beat him guilt for what I had done She told me, tomorrow, she'd be my mother When the woman of webs asked if I'd be her lover And I told her that such things were over and done The maiden pouring out wine called me her brother The virgin asked why I'd spurned the web-woman's bed... (more) http://jerichobyname.blogdrive.com/comments?id=9 http://jerichobyname.blogdrive.com/archive/8.html Sun, 14 Oct 2007 06:55:01 GMT The Jericho Institute's debut short film (dubbed "The Gypsie Slushy") has been entered in Apple's Insomnia Film Festival. Our initial edit, which was just shy of everything in the script, came out to about a minute and a half over the 3-minute limit. So, after some tortured Darling-Killing, we got a final product clocking in at 2:59, with credits. Our story focused on the Muse of Inspiration and the Spirit of Distraction fighting over a poet's attention. It's not exactly what we set out to make, but we couldn't do everything we wanted in 3 minutes. Our story happened but didn't develop quite... (more) http://jerichobyname.blogdrive.com/comments?id=8 http://jerichobyname.blogdrive.com/archive/7.html Sun, 14 Oct 2007 00:48:03 GMT Having not slept in well over 24-hours, at this point, we've wrapped shooting and are now embarking on the editing process. The shoot was slightly lower energy than I would have liked, partially because of too much down-time, due to not enough organization, and some other stuff that could have been avoided with better planning. But, hey, that's what makes this 24-hour thing such a challenge. That and the sheer amount of work involved. Jason and I are fatigued, but surviving and all-in-all none the worse for wear. The girls did great in shooting; Kachina being a real trooper about washing her... (more) http://jerichobyname.blogdrive.com/comments?id=7 http://jerichobyname.blogdrive.com/archive/6.html Sat, 13 Oct 2007 10:05:09 GMT SO IT BEGINS! The Jericho Institute takes its first voyage as we begin "The Insomnia Project". Hosted by Apple, the Insomniac film festival gives participants 24-hours to make a 3-minute movie, beginning at 6am (Pac time), Oct. 13. The writing team is currently (2am) prepping for power naps in my apartment. We begin shooting at Willamette University in, roughly, six hours. Our idea is simple, an artist (Za'chary Westbrook) struggles between the Muse of Inspiration (Alissa Taylor) and the Spirit of Distraction (Kachina Kudroff). Eventually, they go get slushies. Despite a few logistical... (more) http://jerichobyname.blogdrive.com/comments?id=6