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Vivid Technicolor Life: August 2010
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Tuesday, August 31, 2010. Wasnt there a road paved with those? N 1 a course of action that one intends to follow 2. an aim that guides action, an objective. I had good intentions when I started this blog. I thought I could share some thoughts and comments on fatherhood each week to inform and entertain my friends. As it turns out, I’m so busy being dad, (and playing Super Mario) that I don’t have much time to come up with witty and insightful blog posts. Posted by Erik Tindle. Subscribe to: Posts (Atom).
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Vivid Technicolor Life: October 2010
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Tuesday, October 26, 2010. A little girl is cute. She looks like a living doll romping around in skirts and ponytails. One moment she is mimicking the tenderness of a mother with a baby doll in her arms. The next minute, she is upbraiding the dog for its considerable sins. Want to hold her and give her everything she asks for? We have resisted this as much as we can. My wife wasn’t that kind of girl when she was little. It is hard for us to understand. Yet our own girl is exactly the ki...She wants to be...
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Vivid Technicolor Life: September 2010
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Thursday, September 30, 2010. I knew from the beginning that I wanted to have a family. Wanting such a thing is like wanting to get married. All you know is what you see other people doing and you want what they have. You don't know how hard it can be even thought they tell you it's hard. You don't understand how great it can be, even though you can see it in their faces. Mommy says it out loud so I don't have to, so I can just be strong and proud of him for being older. Posted by Erik Tindle. When I sor...
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Vivid Technicolor Life: Because we are different...
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Monday, October 11, 2010. Because we are different. We have a rule at our house. The rule is ‘no guns’. We own no toy guns despite having three boys that are as rowdy and aggressive as ever a man-child was. We have this rule because I don’t want them pretending to kill each other. That’s not a game. Perhaps I am being too serious about it. Perhaps. It’s my house though. It’s my rule. My children say, “What about hunting? I explain that pistols are hand guns. I say, “I know.”. I know that my kids don̵...
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Vivid Technicolor Life: My Old Flame...
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Tuesday, September 7, 2010. And assorted turtle-like adversaries. At the head of this army is your arch nemesis, Bowser. Is he a dragon? We're not told and we don't care. Why a plumber and not a knight or other more traditional hero? Who knows. Perhaps they were going for a protagonist more approachable, more working class. In which Mario's brother must rescue him from a haunted house. Mario RPG, Mario Kart, Paper Mario. And now that masterpiece (in my humble opinion) New Super Mario Bros. Wii. For me to...
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Vivid Technicolor Life: July 2010
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Monday, July 12, 2010. If knowledge is power. Why is it that kids (I'm not even talking teenagers) think their friends or cousins know more about everything than I do? Anyway, my point is that, somehow a nine-year-old has more credibility in matters of life than I do. What's up with that? By the way, guys, we still do it too. When was the last time your wife warned you something was a bad idea and it turned out she was right? Even though a friend of yours told you it would work. Yeah. I know. The point o...
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Vivid Technicolor Life: December 2010
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Saturday, December 18, 2010. The End of the Story. Christmas is at once a delightful holiday full of joy and good-spirit and a time of controversy when those boundaries we have put up between different peoples and cultures are strained and tested. It nags at me every year that there are issues in the celebrating of Christmas. Most of us who are Christian make a great effort to remember the "Reason for the Season". Posted by Erik Tindle. Posted by Erik Tindle. Saturday, December 4, 2010. In 1981 Nintendo ...
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Vivid Technicolor Life: Rhombus Boy vs. The Irregular Polygon
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Tuesday, September 14, 2010. Rhombus Boy vs. The Irregular Polygon. I have to laugh sometimes when people ask the question. It's almost always in the midst of some social setting that would be perfectly normal for adults, although there are places people aren't used to seeing kids. But, as I mentioned before. I don't really believe in children being held back from learning the ins and outs of the adult world. I don't mean letting kids be exposed to the seedy, disgusting parts of being an adult. I. Where ...
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Vivid Technicolor Life: Long Ago and Yesterday...
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Tuesday, September 28, 2010. Long Ago and Yesterday. I was leaving a comment for a post on Derek's blog. When I sort of got carried away. What resulted was a short paragraph that caricatured the names we have for the days of the weeks. The idea got me thinking, though, so I wanted to write a full post about it. Do a little research (read Wikipedia. And you'll find some interesting characteristics attributed to our weekly routines. Are people more likely to drop their pants on Monday? Posted by Erik Tindle.
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Vivid Technicolor Life: Vivid Technicolor Life
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Saturday, September 11, 2010. I have come that they may have life, and have it to the full. Jesus of Nazareth, circa 30AD. When I was a kid, I loved to color in coloring books. For school you only had to have a box of eight or sixteen colors. Sixteen colors just didn't seem adequate. It didn't come close to capturing the spectrum of possibilities a blank page presented. What if a sky was Slate or Periwinkle? What if a superhero had a Carrot-colored costume instead of the usual Orange? I don't really want...
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