A life in words

  • My Blog Be Back

    Once upon a time, a web hosting provider utterly lost the entire site of one of its customers, without any backup. Surprisingly enough, the user in this Brothers Grimm-like cautionary tale was yours truly! Now, after months of neglect, I’m finally getting joshhansen.net back up on its virtual feet. Sorry about the downtime. Unfortunately this…

  • “Broken Spears” and the Book of Mormon

    One of the most interesting books I’ve ever read is “The Broken Spears”—a collection of indigenous and Spanish records documenting the conquest of Mexico shortly after the fact. While reading I unexpectedly noticed parallels with the Book of Mormon record. In fact, I found so many that I began to keep track of them. Some…

  • A Goal Gastronomical

    Having just eaten lunch at Kneaders I was struck with a really cool idea: I’m going to make my own Kneaders-like meal, doing as much from scratch as is reasonable. This would include the following: The Sandwich Vegetables: grow the lettuce, tomatoes, herbs, onions, sprouts, etc. Bread: not milling my own wheat or anything, but…

Culture is not a territory to be won or lost but a resource we are called to steward with care. Culture is a garden to be cultivated.Makoto Fujimura, Culture Care, 2017