Just moments ago a friend sent me this recording of my name being read from the podium of Westminster Theological Seminary’s commencement for the awarding of my Master of Arts in Religion (Biblical Studies) degree:
“Mark Traphagen, in absentia”
UPDATE: My daughter took the following video of all the M.A.R. graduates receiving their diplomas. My name being [...]
This entry is part of a series, Flying Club Cup Videos by Beirut»
Here is the video from the fourth song on Flying Club Cup by Beirut (Zach Condon and band). The song is “La Banlieue”
La banlieue (literally “the outskirts”) is the French term for an area of low income housing around the edge [...]
This must be why mystics and poets record /
The slender incursions of splintered light, /
Echoes, fragments, odd words and phrases /
Like flashes through darkened hallways. - Rod Jellema