Wednesday, March 31, 2021

LENTEN MEDITATION



Lenten meditation for 3/30/2021.

Image: "Flowers of the Universal Flowering," oil on canvas, 1916, by Pavel Filonov.

Song: "Cowgirl (Remix id2 A1804 (1993)" by Underworld. Original version found on the album Dubnobasswithmyheadman (1994). Listen HERE.

Tuesday, March 30, 2021

LENTEN MEDITATION



Lenten image for 3/30/2021.

Image: "An Angel of the Last Judgment," oil on cardboard, 1911, by Wassily Kandinsky.

Song: "Allé Sauvage" by Beak>, from the album >>> (2018). Listen HERE.

Monday, March 29, 2021

LENTEN MEDITATION



Lenten meditation for 3/29/2021.

Image: "The Ten Largest No. 3 - Youth," tempera on paper, 1907, by Hilma af Klint.

Song: "Holy Roller" by Minimal Compact, from the album Creation Is Perfect (2019). Listen HERE.

Sunday, March 28, 2021

LENTEN MEDITATION



Lenten meditation for 3/28/2021.

Image: "Pietà," oil on canvas, circa 1592, by El Greco.

Song: "Pieta" by Wire, from the album A Bell Is a Cup... Until It Is Struck (1988). Listen HERE.

Saturday, March 27, 2021

LENTEN MEDITATION



Lenten meditation for 3/27/2021.

Image: Maria Falconetti as Joan of Arc, still shot from the film La Passion de Jeanne d'Arc (1928), directed by Carl Theodor Dreyer.

Song: "Marathon" by Doomtree, as found on the album All Hands (2015). Listen HERE.

Friday, March 26, 2021

LENTEN MEDITATION



Lenten meditation for 3/26/2021.

Image: "Joan of Arc's Death at the Stake," oil on canvas, 1843, by Hermann Anton Stilke.

Song: "Without Belief" by Nitzer Ebb, from the album Belief (1989). Listen HERE.

Thursday, March 25, 2021

LENTEN MEDITATION



Lenten meditation for 3/25/2021.l

Image: "Black Square," oil on linen, 1915, by Kazimir Malevich.

Song: "Dead Sun" by Moby, from the album Animal Rights (1996). Listen HERE.

Wednesday, March 24, 2021

LENTEN MEDITATION



Lenten meditation for 3/24/2021.

Image: "Portrait of Innocent X," oil on canvas, circa 1650, by Diego Velázquez.

Song: "Ray of Light" by Madonna, from the album Ray of Light (1998). Listen HERE.

Tuesday, March 23, 2021

LENTEN MEDITATION



Lenten meditation for 3/22/2021.

Image: "Study After Velázquez's Portrait of Pope Innocent X," oil on canvas, 1953, by Francis Bacon.

Song: "Antiworld" by Nina Hagen, from the album NunSexMonkRock (1982). Listen HERE.

Monday, March 22, 2021

LENTEN MEDITATION



Lenten meditation for 3/22/2021.

Image: "False Glory," charcoal on paper, 1885, by Odilon Redon.

Song: "Glory Bound" by Pigeonhed, from the album The Full Sentence (1997). Listen HERE.

Sunday, March 21, 2021

LENTEN MEDITATION



Lenten meditation for 3/21/2021.

Image: "Head of an Old Man," pottery, 200–1BC, Ptolemaic Period, from Egypt.

Song: "Old Man" by Neil Young, from the album Harvest (1972). Listen HERE.

Saturday, March 20, 2021

PLU MEADOWS DISC GOLF COURSE



Playing some disc golf on the nine-hole PLU Meadows disc golf course. Physical therapy for the back. Spiritual therapy for the mind.

A good day on the course!

Hole 1 / par 3 - 4
Hole 2 / par 3 - 4
Hole 3 / par 4 - 3
Hole 4 / par 3 - 3
Hole 5 / par 3 - 5
Hole 6 / par 4 - 4
Hole 7 / par 3 - 3
Hole 8 / par 4 - 4
Hole 9 / par 4 - 3
Front nine / par 31 - 33 (+2)



Sign for hole 8. The course has excellent signage that is easy to understand, which makes moving from basket to the next tee a breeze.





Tee pad of hole nine. In addition to the signage, the tee pads were well-groomed. Turf-covered pads pointed in the direction of the fairway and basket were another welcome feature of this course.


My workhorse disc for the day: 178-gram Discraft Buzzz ESP midrange. It played excellently in the wind. Normally, I use a 164-gram Buzzz, so this disc usually just resides in my bag, waiting for either wind or heavy brush. Today, it was my entire "middle game" as it's extra weight made the difference between control or chaos.

All in all, a lovely short course. I will definitely be playing it again. And soon.

LENTEN MEDITATION



Lenten meditation for 3/20/2021.

Image: "Anointment of the Dead Christ," bronze, circa 1588–1596, (most likely cast) by Fra Domenico Portigiani, after a model by Giambologna.

Song: "Anointed" by DJ Muggs the Black Goat, from the album Dies Occidendum (2021). Listen HERE.

Friday, March 19, 2021

LENTEN MEDITATION



Lenten meditation for 3/19/2021.

Image: Illustration of a human heart from De Humani Corporis Fabrica Libri Septem (On the Fabric of the Human Body) by Andreas Vesalius, published in 1543.

Song: "Cirrhosis of the Heart" by Foetus, from the album Flow (2001). Listen HERE.

Extended meditation: "Cirrhosis of the Heart" by Foetus, remixed by Amon Tobin, from the album Blow (2001). Listen HERE.

Thursday, March 18, 2021

LENTEN MEDITATION



Lenten meditation for 3/18/2021.

Image: "Eye," mezzotint, 1946, by M. C. Escher.

Song: "Hallelujah" by The Helio Sequence, from the album Keep Your Eyes Ahead (2008). Listen HERE.

Wednesday, March 17, 2021

LENTEN MEDITATION



Lenten meditation for 3/17/2021.

Image: Photograph of the "Pillars of Creation" in the Eagle Nebula/M16, 2015, taken by NASA's Hubble Space Telescope.

Song: "Halleluwah" by Can, from the album Tago Mago (1971). Listen HERE.

Tuesday, March 16, 2021

LENTEN MEDITATION



Lenten meditation for 3/16/2021.

Image: "Abtei im Eichwald (Abbey in the Oakwood)," 1809–1810, by Caspar David Friedrich.

Song: "Big Sky" by Probot, featuring Tom G. Warrior, from the album Probot (2004). Listen HERE.

Monday, March 15, 2021

LENTEN MEDITATION



Lenten meditation for 3/15/2021.

Image: "Ajax Carries the Body of Achilles from the Field of Battle," Attic black-figure lekythos, circa 510 BC, Sicily.

Song: "Troy" by Sinéad O'Connor, from the album The Lion and the Cobra (1987). Listen HERE.

Sunday, March 14, 2021

LENTEN MEDITATION



Lenten meditation for 3/14/2021.

Image: "The Persistence of Memory," oil on canvas, 1931, by Salvador Dalí.

Song: "The Box," full version, by Orbital. From the bonus disc accompanying the album In Sides (1996). Listen HERE.

Saturday, March 13, 2021

LENTEN MEDITATION



Lenten meditation for 3/13/2021.

Image: "The Thinker," bronze, 1904, by Auguste Rodin. Musée Rodin version.

Song: "Hurt" by Johnny Cash, from the album American IV: The Man Comes Around (2002). Listen HERE.

Friday, March 12, 2021

LENTEN MEDITATION



Lenten meditation for 3/12/2021.

Image: "The Vision of the Valley of Dry Bones," engraving, 1866, by Gustave Doré.

Song: "Dust in the Wind" by Kansas, from the album Point of Know Return (1977). Listen HERE.

Thursday, March 11, 2021

LENTEN MEDITATION



Lenten meditation for 3/11/2021.

Image: "The Garden of Earthly Delights," oil on panels, circa 1495–1505, by Hieronymous Bosch.

Song: "Blurred" by Darkstar, as found on the album Civic Jams (2020). Listen HERE.

Wednesday, March 10, 2021

LENTEN MEDITATION



Lenten meditation for 3/10/2021.

Image: "Anxiety," oil on canvas, 1894, by Edvard Munch.

Song: "I Can Never Relax" by Khidja, as found on the album In the Middle of the Night (2019). Listen HERE.

Tuesday, March 09, 2021

LENTEN MEDITATION



Lenten meditation for 3/9/2021.

Image: "Red Canna," oil, 1924, by Georgia O'Keeffe.

Song: "Mysterious Ways" by U2, as found on the album Achtung Baby (1991). Listen HERE.

Monday, March 08, 2021

LENTEN MEDITATION



Lenten meditation for 3/8/2021.

Image: "Ceiling of Ganshoin Temple at Obuse," ukiyo-e, circa 1845, by Katsushika Hokusai.

Song: "Sudden Awareness of Now" by Rival Consoles, from the album Articulation (2020). Listen HERE.

Sunday, March 07, 2021

LENTEN MEDITATION



Lenten meditation for 3/7/2021.

Image: "Gathering of God's People," ink on watercolor paper, 2020, by Troy's Work Table.

Song: "Gimme Shelter" by The Rolling Stones, from the album Let It Bleed (1969). Listen HERE.

Saturday, March 06, 2021

LENTEN MEDITATION



Lenten meditation for 3/6/2021.

Image: "Ecce Homo," oil on canvas, circa 1851, by Honoré Daumier.

Song: "Divine Intervention" by Matthew Sweet, from the album Girlfriend (1991). Listen HERE.

Friday, March 05, 2021

LENTEN MEDITATION



Lenten meditation for 3/5/2021.

Image: "Christ Pantocrator," encaustic on panel, 6th century AD, Saint Catherine's Monastery.

Song: "My Sweet Lord" by Billy Preston, from the album Encouraging Words (1970). Listen HERE.

Thursday, March 04, 2021

LENTEN MEDITATION



Lenten meditation for 3/4/2021.

Image: Photograph of Alte Nazarethkirche (Leopoldplatz, Berlin-Wedding, Germany), 2005, by George Slickers. [CC BY-SA 3.0]

Song: "Wedding" by Einstürzende Neubauten, from the album Alles en Allem (2020). Listen HERE.

Wednesday, March 03, 2021

LENTEN MEDITATION



Lenten meditation for 3/3/2021.

Image: "Stormy Sea with Blazing Wreck," oil on canvas, circa 1840, by J. M. W. Turner. Public domain.

Song: "Thalassophobia" by Nicolas Bougaïeff, from the album The Upward Spiral (2020). Listen HERE.

Tuesday, March 02, 2021

LENTEN MEDITATION



Lenten meditation for 3/2/2021.

Image: Plate LX of Metamorphosis insectorum Surinamensium, hand-colored copper engraving, 1705, by Maria Sibylla Merian. Public domain.

Song: "You Say" by Lauren Daigle, from the album Look Up Child (2018). Listen HERE.

Monday, March 01, 2021

LENTEN MEDITATION



Lenten meditation for 3/1/2021.

Image: "Mar Saba," watercolor, 1905–1906, by John Singer Sargent.

Song: "Ziggarats of Cinnamon" by Anne Dudley and Jaz Coleman, from the album Songs from the Victorious City (1990). Listen HERE.