The SKF Experiment is now... on hiatus.

It's been fun posting my nonsensical ramblings here for the past couple years, but I have had less time lately to keep this as current as I'd like. So... I am putting SKF on hiatus. Thanks to those of you who have read and occasionally left comments.

And as this is the Christmas Season, let me wish all of you a very Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year! May God's love and mercy pour down on us -- those who so desperately need it and who so completely do not deserve it.

"A Day of Thanksgiving and Praise"

Stand to Reason has posted the text of Lincoln's "Proclamation of Thanksgiving." It's interesting to note the humble tone of the document, and contrast it to current political attitudes.

I do therefore invite my fellow citizens in every part of the United States, and also those who are at sea and those who are sojourning in foreign lands, to set apart and observe the last Thursday of November next, as a day of Thanksgiving and Praise to our beneficent Father who dwelleth in the Heavens. And I recommend to them that while offering up the ascriptions justly due to Him for such singular deliverances and blessings, they do also, with humble penitence for our national perverseness and disobedience, commend to His tender care all those who have become widows, orphans, mourners or sufferers in the lamentable civil strife in which we are unavoidably engaged, and fervently implore the interposition of the Almighty Hand to heal the wounds of the nation and to restore it as soon as may be consistent with the Divine purposes to the full enjoyment of peace, harmony, tranquillity and Union.

Amen to that!

Stunning Night Photography

These are simply beautiful. The linked article has many more examples of great night photography.


60 Beautiful Examples of Night Photography

Gear's Heart: Beautiful, Moving Wooden Sculpture

Now that's beautiful!

Youtube link.

From Vampires to Jesus

My objective is simple: It's to write books about our Lord living on Earth that make him real to people who don't believe in him; or people who have never really tried to believe in him.

Anne Rice may be the world's best-known vampire novelist. She's the author of dozens of successful Gothic/vampire-themed novels, her first being 1976's Interview With The Vampire.

So it was fitting that on Halloween I came across a CNN article that sort of shocked me. Anne Rice was brought up Catholic, became an atheist as a young adult, and in 2002 she has come back to her faith. Read the CNN Article here: Anne Rice comes to Jesus.