Archive | April, 2010

Hints of Grace

25 Apr

For the last four years I have volunteered at Holy Trinity Catholic Church & School as a catechist for the religious education program forming young adults. Classes are offered twice a week on Wednesdays evening and Sunday afternoon during the regular school year. My wife and I, Heather, teach the Wednesday class. This year we moved up from teaching second to third grade sacramental kids (i.e., they receive both reconciliation and first communion in the Spring).

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Catholic Bumper Sticker Design

14 Apr

Maltese Cross Keys of St. Peter

For a few years now I have been yearning to put a maltese cross styled window sticker on my truck topper. Something that hollers out to a distressed and a generally non believing world that I am Catholic and Proud! I poked around the web and came up with a few ideas but nothing that really stuck. If you want something done right then you have to do it yourself.

The Order of Malta and the associated Maltese Cross are old by almost any standard. Yet,even though the wiki maltese cross image is decent enough they get the geometry wrong. After locating a correct geometric maltese cross layout the next hurdle was designing it such that at least fellow Catholics would get “it.”

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Urban Legends

5 Apr

I live in Westminster, Colorado a growing suburban area northwest of Denver. It’s a mixed profile of semi-industrial areas, quaint residential neighborhoods, parks, schools, and the the usual sprinkle of hustle and bustle that accompanies suburban life. Having lived here for ten years I know a thing or two about some of the local urban legends. For example, “air guitar master” Mark who makes infrequent rounds on Federal Boulevard in the Federal Heights region in retro ’80′s metal rock garb hammering out licks to his walkman.  I hope to highlight him in a future post, but today’s feature character is the “sign dancer.”

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