Category: random

• 5 things i’m looking forward to in 2009

  Happy New Year… maybe.  According to almost every bit of news these days, 2009 is going to be one heckuva downer year.  Without downplaying all the difficult events this year may hold, here are 5 things about 2009 that I’m looking forward to. An elderly missionary in Bolivia once told me that it takes at…

  David Swanson

  January 1, 2009

  random

  new community covenant church

• from the airport: where am i?

  I’m in the Sacramento airport with some time before my flight home.  My folks dropped me off a bit early because they had to make it to San Francisco for their 14 hour (!) flight to Taipei for a Thanksgiving visit with my sister and brother-in-law.  This has been a quick visit, but well worth…

  David Swanson

  November 17, 2008

  random, travel

• delayed due to police activity

  I sat in the Glen Ellyn train station for an hour.  Apparently our train was held up in Wheaton “due to police activity”.  I’m not sure what that means, but hopefully it was a simple technical difficulty and nothing more dramatic.  I’m sitting in a coffee shop waiting to meet the pastor from NC3 whom…

  David Swanson

  April 10, 2008

  random, stories

• big changes

  Readers of this blog who are Parkview people received a letter from Parkview’s Senior Pastor yesterday. In it he broke the news that I have accepted a job at New Community Covenant Church in the Logan Square neighborhood of Chicago. I have added a page to the blog to fill in some of the details…

  David Swanson

  April 9, 2008

  random

• signs of (spring) life

  Despite today’s weather, spring has finally arrived. And not just in the official spring equinox kind of way either. I know this because yesterday… Maggie and I ate half a container of strawberries for breakfast. So wonderful. I drove around with the car windows cracked. I bought the Bon Iver album. First great new music…

  David Swanson

  March 27, 2008

  music, random