Gavin Ellis
@gavinpaulellis.bsky.social
inspired by celtic/contemplative christianity, wonder, silence, time in creation, sci-fi/fantasy, piano, helping others, and seeking truth
I made a shirt for my next protest.
March 21, 2025 at 5:42 AM
I made a shirt for my next protest.
February 13, 2025 at 4:36 AM
Was grocery shopping for work this morning and had a young whippersnapper in his 20s tell me that he liked my 'fit'. Okay, I'm hip to the lingo these young folk are laying down*.
*Please tell me this was a compliment. I actually have no idea what this younger generation means when they talk.
*Please tell me this was a compliment. I actually have no idea what this younger generation means when they talk.
January 14, 2025 at 6:13 AM
Was grocery shopping for work this morning and had a young whippersnapper in his 20s tell me that he liked my 'fit'. Okay, I'm hip to the lingo these young folk are laying down*.
*Please tell me this was a compliment. I actually have no idea what this younger generation means when they talk.
*Please tell me this was a compliment. I actually have no idea what this younger generation means when they talk.
A lovely January afternoon to be out in creation in the pnw. It's actually a little jarring to stand outside and experience this amazing beauty after watching scenes of such destruction on the news. It reminds me how much we take for granted and truly how fragile our world is.
January 12, 2025 at 6:49 AM
A lovely January afternoon to be out in creation in the pnw. It's actually a little jarring to stand outside and experience this amazing beauty after watching scenes of such destruction on the news. It reminds me how much we take for granted and truly how fragile our world is.
watch... wait... listen... hear the song of the angels glorious.
December 25, 2024 at 5:01 AM
watch... wait... listen... hear the song of the angels glorious.
But I've somehow taken this fascination with london of the 1890s that comes up every christmas season and smushed it together with my love of the great consulting detective,
December 9, 2024 at 6:01 AM
But I've somehow taken this fascination with london of the 1890s that comes up every christmas season and smushed it together with my love of the great consulting detective,
Or maybe it has to do with lesson & carol services which are about as british as worship can get (and a central part of our family's celebration of christmas eve each year (the closer to midnight the better).
December 9, 2024 at 6:01 AM
Or maybe it has to do with lesson & carol services which are about as british as worship can get (and a central part of our family's celebration of christmas eve each year (the closer to midnight the better).
There's something about the christmas season that takes me back to victorian times. I'm pretty sure it probably has something to do with Charles Dickens.
December 9, 2024 at 6:01 AM
There's something about the christmas season that takes me back to victorian times. I'm pretty sure it probably has something to do with Charles Dickens.
"Still round the corner there may wait
A new road or a secret gate
And though I often have passed them by
A day will come at last when I
Shall take the hidden paths that run
West of the moon, east of the sun."
- J. R. R. TOLKIEN
A new road or a secret gate
And though I often have passed them by
A day will come at last when I
Shall take the hidden paths that run
West of the moon, east of the sun."
- J. R. R. TOLKIEN
November 26, 2024 at 2:46 AM
"Still round the corner there may wait
A new road or a secret gate
And though I often have passed them by
A day will come at last when I
Shall take the hidden paths that run
West of the moon, east of the sun."
- J. R. R. TOLKIEN
A new road or a secret gate
And though I often have passed them by
A day will come at last when I
Shall take the hidden paths that run
West of the moon, east of the sun."
- J. R. R. TOLKIEN
“Perhaps it is how we are made; perhaps words of truth reach us best through the heart, and stories and songs are the language of the heart." - Stephen R. Lawhead
November 25, 2024 at 12:40 AM
“Perhaps it is how we are made; perhaps words of truth reach us best through the heart, and stories and songs are the language of the heart." - Stephen R. Lawhead
Maybe the reason I appreciate Byzantium and his Celtic Crusades series as much as I do is that they are a little more down on the redemptive violence thing.
November 19, 2024 at 7:43 PM
Maybe the reason I appreciate Byzantium and his Celtic Crusades series as much as I do is that they are a little more down on the redemptive violence thing.
I've been re-reading his earlier books, some of which I haven't read for decades. They read different when I'm approaching 50 than they did in my late teens and 20s. I'm more uncomfortable with the myth of redemptive violence that pervades most of them as well as the hints of christian nationalism.
November 19, 2024 at 7:43 PM
I've been re-reading his earlier books, some of which I haven't read for decades. They read different when I'm approaching 50 than they did in my late teens and 20s. I'm more uncomfortable with the myth of redemptive violence that pervades most of them as well as the hints of christian nationalism.
Back in September, I had the opportunity to meet an author whose fiction played a huge part in my formational growth as a high school/college student. I got to sit around a table with Stephen Lawhead and 5 other of his fans for about an hour and a half and visit about how much his writing meant.
November 19, 2024 at 7:43 PM
Back in September, I had the opportunity to meet an author whose fiction played a huge part in my formational growth as a high school/college student. I got to sit around a table with Stephen Lawhead and 5 other of his fans for about an hour and a half and visit about how much his writing meant.