Robby Prenkert

Ya… I do.

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“Johnny Too Bad” - The Slickers

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If you know me at all, you know where this reminds me of.  Am I supposed to explain all of these?

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AND…

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“Most students . . . feel that they must first have something to say brefore they can put it down on paper.  For them writing is little more than recording a preexistent thought.  But . . . writing is a process in which we discover what lives in us. The writing itself reveals what is alive."

• Henri Nouwen

Gogol Bordello - “Start Wearing Purple”

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Hard to single out just one. When I was like 13 years old they played this stupid song to death.  I turn off the radio anytime I hear it now. 

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“The deepest satisfaction of writing is precisely that it opens up new spaces within us of which we were not aware before we started to write.  To write is to embark on a journey whose final destination we do not know.  Thus, creative writing requires a real act of trust. We have to say to ourselves, “I do not yet know what I carry in my heart, but I trust that it will emerge as I write.” Writing is like giving away the few loaves and fishes one has, in trust that they will multiply in the giving.  Once we dare to “give away” on paper the few thoughts that come to us, we start discovering how much is hidden underneath . . . and gradually come in touch with our own riches."

-Henri Nouwen

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1.  NBA playoffs virtually every day.
2.  It’s not hot yet.
3.  It’s not really that cold anymore.
4.  It stays light until 9:00 p.m.
5.  Kiddie Kollege on Tuesday and Thursday with Miss Rachel.
6.  No classes for me.
7.  Clean office (in process).
8.  Hitting wiffleballs every day.
9.  Reading many, many pages just for the fun of it every day.
10.  No papers to grade for four months.
11.  Fastpitch softball begins again.
12.  The Cubs, no matter how bad they are, still have a chance to redeem the season.
13.  Morgan laying in the sun on the back deck.
14.  Walks in the woods.
15.  Biking.
16.  P90X with renewed intensity.
17.  Did I mention the NBA playoffs?
18.  Playing the uke and the harmonica
19.  Dandelions.
20.  Burning leafs left over from last fall.
21.  Veggies growing in the various containers and raised beds.
22.  Vacuuming the pretzels, cheerios, cinnamon toast crunch, french fries, and other filth from my car because I  finally have the time.
23.  The daily office.
24.  Reading group begins, again.
25.  Church softball.
26.  Lunch time basketball.
27.  Shooting hoops in the driveway.
28.  Memorial Day weekend.
29.  The bouncy jump in the backyard.
30.  Sydney’s fifth birthday.
31.  Jeanie counting down the days to the end of school.

“Osama bin Laden, as we all know, bore the most serious responsibility for spreading divisions and hatred among populations, causing the deaths of innumerable people, and manipulating religions to this end. In the face of a man’s death, a Christian never rejoices, but reflects on the serious responsibilities of each person before God and before men, and hopes and works so that every event may be the occasion for the further growth of peace and not of hatred.”

• Jesuit Father Federico Lombardi, Vatican spokesman, on the death of Osama bin Laden.

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“One must not put a loaded gun on the stage if no one is thinking of firing it.” - Anton Chekhov
 
“If you say in the first chapter that there is a rifle hanging on the wall, in the second or third chapter it absolutely must go off. If it’s not going to be fired, it shouldn’t be hanging there.” - Anton Chekhov
 

"Technological change is not additive; it is ecological. I can explain this best by an analogy. What happens if we place a drop of red dye into a beaker of clear water? Do we have clear water plus a spot of red dye? Obviously not. We have a new coloration to every molecule of water. That is what I mean by ecological change. A new medium does not add something; it changes everything. In the year 1500, after the printing press was invented, you did not have old Europe plus the printing press. You had a different Europe. After television, America was not America plus television. Television gave a new coloration to every political campaign, to every home, to every school, to every church, to every industry, and so on." (Neil Postman)

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The point is not that she feels unsafe.
The point is that she once felt safe, and now does not.
And the point is also that she now feels unsafe because that which was concealed has been revealed.

And there’s no crying in baseball.

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Hilarious.

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Just for fun and since I’ve not been writing much at all lately, the next few days (until I get bored with it), I’ll be posting some of my all time favorite movie scenes, in no particular order. This is classic; I cackle every time I see this.

Questioning Campus Safety’s Gun Policy The following is an opinion piece published in The Bethel Beacon, the student newspaper of Bethel College, Indiana, my alma mater as well as where I currently teach. Bethel students, staff, and faculty with a valid Bethel email can access and comment on the article here. Others will have to simply leave their comments below. http://cramercomments.blogspot.com/2011/03/questioning-campus-safetys-gun-policy.html

The Sunset Limited


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Pull out my phone and turn on the “sneaky fart” app.

Ya, my daughter thinks the thirty or so different and very realistic sounding fart noises are hilarious. You do what you gotta do in the morning.

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Is it possible to get a back ache just looking at your driveway on a morning like this?

Prediction: two more big snows before spring.

Readers of this blog will see I’m not very good at predicting anything weather related.

Later today, if I don’t actually end up with a debilitating back ache, Morgan and I will take a walk in the woods.

It is not necessary to have more than one sentence in any paragraph, nor does a blog entry need a true central focus. Thesis statements are overrated, you know.