Drew Downs

Make a New Normal

August 2012

  • Relearning How to Color

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    4 min read

    When I was young, I was always drawing. I would watch Commander Mark and draw along, making all sorts of pictures of spaceships and alien planets. I would make up my own comic book characters, sketch them out, write back stories, and imagine whole universes. I’ve always seen myself as creative. As someone who creatively…

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  • No Difference? Really? You Don’t See It? Seriously?

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    1 min read

    You know I don’t like the easy trap of Left vs. Right. I’m not a Platonist. I don’t dig on dualism. Nor do I take the easy escape hatch of declaring liberals and conservatives are all the same. Lame! But I really can’t help but wonder why people can’t see the difference between these two: It…

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  • Learning How To Sing

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    4 min read

    I remember a specific moment of great happiness from my childhood. It was the day I learned I no longer had to sing at school. I didn’t dread singing until fourth grade. The year I had my first crush, my first acknowledgement that boys and girls really were different, the first realization that what I did…

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  • Impatience Killed The Killing

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    4 min read

    This week’s news that AMC did not renew The Killing came as a shock to no one, but I’m really disappointed. Good shows are hard to come by; particularly ones that draw such emotional responses from their viewers as this one did. If you’ve never watched the show, here’s the one thing you need to know about…

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  • Banned by TED

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    4 min read

    It is interesting how easy it is to get banned. In big language, we would say one only needs to question the dominant paradigm. In plain language, we’d say you just need to upset the apple cart. Another way to get banned is by speaking as if you are taking a “side” in a popular “debate” about a…

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  • Why do you follow?

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    a Homily for Proper 13B Text: John 6:24-35 Why do you follow Jesus? For Christians, this should be an easy enough question. But it isn’t for most of us. Or at least there’s trouble in the answering. Why do you follow Jesus? For many of us, we had a moment in which our belief in…

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