"Our Time of Troubles... commenced with the catastrophic events of the year of 1914... Our civilization has just begun to recover." - Arnold Toynbee

Saturday, February 23, 2013

HELP WANTED

My dear friends,

I need some peer review for the first three chapters of my thesis on Scottish history. Who's interested in helping me out? Please email me (at the address in my bio to the right side of the page), and I'll send you a copy. Be ruthless; I need this to make sense to the general reader. I will add a short introduction and conclusion soon, but for now, I need to see if this is working.

Thanks,
Wesley

Tuesday, February 12, 2013

The Eighth Wonder of the World



Not in Egypt... Not in Asia... Not in Europe... In my own farm-country state of Indiana, near where I grew up. Please take a few minuets and view this magnificent monument (be advised: mute the euphemism of God's name at 0.35-0.39).

Saturday, February 9, 2013

Greetings for the Great White North

Welcome to the crisp woods of Middle Michigan; some of you may know it better as Narnia. We had another great snowfall the night before last, and now the snow lies deep and quiet about our great northern forests. In the words of my sister, today's sunshine is truly a "glorious morning." The thermometer read -5 degrees Fahrenheit at 9:00am. Hear are some pictures...

Yesterday:













 "A moment later she found that she was standing in the middle of a wood... with snow under her feet and snowflakes falling through the air...."




This Morning:
"There was a crisp, dry snow under his feet and more snow lying on the branches of the trees. Overhead there was a pale blue sky, the sort of sky one sees on a fine winter day in the morning. Straight ahead of him he saw between the tree-trunks the sun, just rising, very read and clear."