David Given Schwarm

Married, Father, United

Pizza & Park Night

Last night was huge at the park. Drew came and nearly broke my heart – he did not have the cash for pizza and felt really guilty. I could not have cared less, but I did not know how to make him understand that it was ok. I tried & I will talk to him…
Chicken Run

Went to the theatre on Alton and saw this with Sean, Diane, Connor, and Dononvan. It was a great outing, but the movie was not the best. First, there was a fat character, which is alway uncomfortable. The movie itself had way to much plot – like it was trying to hard. The popcorn was…
Sufjan Stevens :: Michigan

Yesterday, Tyler gave this album to me. He burned it & labeled it. He even wrote all the tracks on the cd case insert. There is something about getting cd’s as gifts that makes me incredibly happy. I mean it is just the greatest thing in the world. The album itself is very good –…
Surah XII 44

They said: Confused dreams, and we do not know the interpretation of dreams.
Close :: November 9, 2005

So this brings to an end the work I did on the concept of close. not that effective, started strong, but then got diluted. I think that the concept may have been to rich, complicated, and close to home for me to really figure out all the implications. the things that I did learn mostly…
Grateful Dead "Althea"

You may be the fate of Opheliasleeping and perchance to dream –honest to the point of recklessnessself centered to the extreme
Softball :: November 8, 2005

Tonight is yet another play off game for Steadman. We were crushed by the first place team last week – game ended with them hitting a home run. Nice to once again be exposed to the Mercy rule. In any event, the games are still a huge amount of fun & I really do get…
Reading List :: November 07, 2005

1/ Autobiography of a Yogi2/ Power of Now3/ New Yorker
Surah XII 25-28

25. And they both hastened to the door, and she rent his shirt from behind and they met her husband at the door. She said: What is the punishment of him who intends evil to your wife except imprisonment or a painful chastisement?26. He said: She sought to make me yield (to her); and a…
Frank Herbert – Dune Messiah

The convoluted wording of legalism grew up around the necessity to hide from ourselves the violence we intend toward each other. Between depriving a man of one hour of his life and depriving him of his life there exists only a difference of degree. You have done violence to him, consumed his energy. Elaborate euphemisms…