Flower, originally uploaded by papalars. One of the responses to this photo on my blog said this looks like a party, like the flowers are celebrating something. I found the comments fitting as well as suggestive. Nature once again comes to our aid in leading the song through life, theContinue Reading

One Cross over Barcelona, originally uploaded by papalars. For more than thirty years, I have felt, on and off again, that there was something more to the Christian journey than my current experience was telling me. During my college years in particular, I sometimes became incredibly disillusioned with my ownContinue Reading

Here is another one of my new friends. His name is Miguel and he is from Argentina. I first met Miguel in October of 2005 when I came to Barcelona for a conference on our focus friends. The topic of that conference was addressing the many aspects of Maghrebi assimilationContinue Reading

Alfred Hitchcock's "The Birds", originally uploaded by papalars. Just thought I'd post a fun picture I caught down at Plaça Cataluña day before yesterday for a change of pace. This would go to the lighter side of my blog. Let me tell you the story of how I caught thisContinue Reading

Ronda "Nuevo" Bridge [built in 1793], originally uploaded by papalars. Carol was laughing hard as she watched me edge up to the fence to get several pictures of the Nuevo Ronda Bridge. I really do have acrophobia and after about 10 minutes of trying to get the perfect shot IContinue Reading