Trying to follow

A fun way I’ve seen folks look back over the past year is to post the first sentence of their first post from each month of the past year. I figure it’s worth doing so here is mine. (Please click through the links and leave comments. I’d love to renew some old topics, especially with so many new readers).

• January 2006
  
  

  Funny how I sort of ripped on New Years resolutions and now I’m hard at work writing them.

• February 2006
  
  

  I thought it would be worth mentioning a collection of essays from people who do a FAR better job then myself of answering the question “What would you do if someone attacked your loved ones?”

• March 2006
  
  

  I told you my financial wisdom would not be overly complicated or deep, and lesson #1 is no exception.

• April 2006
  
  

  This week I’m posting three stories that I have been inspired and challenged by recently.

• May 2006
  
  

  I’m not a big movie reviewer, or theater goer (unless it’s free), but I went to see this one with the fam this weekend.

• June 2006
  
  

  I noticed a number of people coming over to my site from http://www.blogtopsites.com/religion/ and I wanted to highlight some of the post you might be interested in if you’ve come from there.

• July 2006
  
  

  Sorry I haven’t written much in the past few weeks.

• August 2006
  
  

  We, my wife and I, and our friends Bryan and Dawn, are about to embark on a year long journey into community.

• September 2006
  
  

  Earlier this week I sent an email out to some friends informing them of the new recycling policies in Nashville.

• October 2006
  
  

  When it comes to the news, it’s important that we recognize that our choice of sources is extremely important.

• November 2006
  
  

  With the daily podcast, Thoughts on the Journey, moving full steam
  ahead, I figured I should compile a show for all the current Trying to
  Follow podcast listeners.

• December 2006
  
  

  Personally I have experienced the affect of AIDS on a number of levels.

Someone gave me the idea to do a brief year-in-review section of the blog as 2006 comes to a close. Thanks to performancing for being able to pull these statistics. Unfortunately a number of the links go to my main page rather then the specific post, so if you really want to see the link you’ll have to search for it. Also, some of the Whitney Cerak posts I’ve taken down because I couldn’t afford the web hosting cost of so many people coming to view the links. Fortunately I think I’ve cleared up that problem.
Enough random rambling for now, enjoy the links.

Sorry, for the brief hiatus with no warning. As you might have figured out, I’m off spending time with family and haven’t been at a computer much to type, read, or otherwise. I’m in Minnesota for the week, with limited internet access, which means I might throw up a couple post, but don’t expect much.

I arrived in Minnesota just in time to wish my beautiful baby niece a happy 2.5 hour birthday! Take a moment and give a happy birth greeting to baby Taya.

Happy Hanukkah and Merry Christmas greetings to everyone, sorry I haven’t written much about these holidays and their meanings, but hopefully you’ve been too busy enjoying them to miss anything.

I’ll try and do a brief year in review next week as I have time. For now, enjoy your time with family, friends, and the final days of 2006.

When it comes to the news, it’s important that we recognize that our choice of sources is extremely important. There is a reason it’s good not to rely on just one news source (even if it is Jon Stewart). The Internet has become a great tool for us to expand our awareness on news we might never have heard about through the major media outlets. Thanks to Project Censored, I bring you their recent list of the Top 25 Censored Stories of 2006:

#1 Bush Administration
Moves to Eliminate Open Government

#2 Media
Coverage Fails on Iraq: Fallujah and the Civilian Death

#3 Another Year of
Distorted Election Coverage

#4 Surveillance Society
Quietly Moves In 

#5 U.S. Uses Tsunami
to Military Advantage in Southeast Asia

#6 The Real Oil for
Food Scam

#7 Journalists Face
Unprecedented Dangers to Life and Livelihood

#8 Iraqi Farmers Threatened
By Bremer’s Mandates

#9 Iran’s New
Oil Trade System Challenges U.S. Currency

#10 Mountaintop Removal
Threatens Ecosystem and Economy

#11 Universal Mental
Screening Program Usurps Parental Rights

#12 Military in Iraq
Contracts Human Rights Violators

#13 Rich Countries
Fail to Live up to Global Pledges

#14 Corporations Win
Big on Tort Reform, Justice Suffers

#15 Conservative Plan
to Override Academic Freedom in the Classroom

#16 U.S. Plans for
Hemispheric Integration Include Canada

#17 U.S. Uses South
American Military Bases to Expand Control of the Region

#18 Little Known Stock
Fraud Could Weaken U.S. Economy

#19 Child Wards of
the State Used in AIDS Experiments

#20 American Indians
Sue for Resources; Compensation Provided to Others

#21 New Immigration
Plan Favors Business Over People

#22 Nanotechnology
Offers Exciting Possibilities But Health Effects Need Scrutiny

#23 Plight of Palestinian
Child Detainees Highlights Global Problem

#24 Ethiopian Indigenous
Victims of Corporate and Government Resource Aspirations

#25 Homeland Security
Was Designed to Fail  

And to see what the future holds… here’s the stories of 2007.

(h.t. Ka-Bar)

We think they are silly, and yet they are also such good things when we actually do them.

Zach and I talk about our New Year’s Resolutions and some of what we look forward to seeing and doing in the New Year. Hope you enjoy it.

New Year’s Resolutions Podcast.