So it's been awhile....
yes, i've not posted in some time. I've not really kept up on the blogging thing. it's Sunday afternoon, yes there's always things to do around the house, but here i am. i'm finally feeling well after a three month stint of "the cruds." mostly i'm a little more motivated these days cuz i'm seeing more of the sun as the days get longer again and the spring flowers begin to peak above the surface of the ground. Aaaaahhh Spring!sorry if i've seemed M.I.A. i've been around. keeping too busy then crashing from exhaustion. kinda boring life i guess. i'm still at the DHOP on wednesdays and fridays for the most part. i'm learning a lot about PDX in a new way at work. most of the folks i'm working with are under 25 yrs and have moved here from other parts of the country to be a part of the up and coming "Indie" band music scene. One kid asked me if anyone is from PDX. that was intriguing to me cuz it was apparent that most of the people he was meeting as he went house to house and show to show are not locals. it appears there's a new population moving into our fair city. they're very musical and arty and have uprooted themselves to find/build a new life here.
i suppose historically that's always been the case here in PDX. decade after decade, wave after wave new people come to build a new life. i'm often considered a true Portlander due to the fact that my parents were born and raised here as was I. but, i'm not really from here either. all of my grandparents were from somewhere else. three of them were born in the states to swedish immigrants who had recently come to an area in Minnisota called "little sweden". their families uprooted again and became a part of a new swedish community in the north part of the city in the early part of the last century. (another grandfather's family who was from the Orkney Is got to the NW via Canada) there were germans, chinese, italians and jewish people who did the same thing. (clearly it can be argued that no one is from here but the first nation people). then the depression hit and many from the south uprooted to move here to find work as the shipyard and factory work expanded with the implementation of the "New Deal" and then to meet the demands of WWII. in the 70's & 80's came waves of refugees from various parts of the world escaping the ever increasing violence of war and religious persecution. the 80's & 90's brought many people to PDX in search of shelter for alternative lifestyles. the silicon forest has brought new industry and another wave of global new-comers. and 15 or so years of urban renewal has broughtPDX into a new faze of being the "happening" place to be. relative to other more densely populated areas it's less expensive to live. although i'd argue that since our wage and economy does not really compare unless you're a techie.
so that's my city. after a couple of years of flying to different places and seeing what God is doing elsewhere it appears there is much about this locale that is to be learned as well. it's certainly interesting to see this city thru the eyes of these new arrivals. if one ventured downtown on a friday afternoon you might encounter traffic congestion due to the weekly demonstrations about the war, or you might get run over by the parade of bicyclists who rally monthly to raise awareness of the need for cars and bikes to share the road. there's coffee shops everywhere and its a SIN not to recycle. it makes me wonder what PDX will be in 5, 10 and 15 years from now.
posted by kt @ 2/25/2007 01:25:00 PM
4 Comments:
Sounds like a fun place to be...
Sorry to hear you were, very glad to hear you are.
Thinking of you guys often.
Ken
yeah I have had this same flu-ey nasty thing just hanging around for more than a month aaarrgh!
Hey Cathline, this is Joseph Redmond. I do not know if you remember me, I am Babara Huschka's god son. I played bass on one of your sets on friday night sometime last year at Calvary Temple. But any ways I am doing Fire In The Night in Kasas City right now...It has been really awsome...I was just remembering the PDXHOP blogs and am just checking them out. I will be coming home on march 29th and I am looking forward to bing more involved in the PDXHOP. You can check out my website/blog at www.6redmonds.com I try and update it as often as I can.
Any ways I do not know if you have heard about it much but the Prayer Room here is going to be live from midnight to six on GODTV! All around the world. If you have not heard about it, you should check it out on the IHOP website. There is a interview with Mike Bickle and the leaders of GODTV on the website that is a little over an hour long on the IHOP web site. It is really the IHOP prophetic history happening right now. Because hopefully if everything goes well, it is expected that 5 million people all over the world will watch the IHOP Prayer Room everynight. Yeah and there are just now over 500 hundred staff people here at the IHOP. I don't know if you remember the 500 to 5000 over night...It will be awsome!!!
And word is that they are looking for another prayer room! Which I am excited about because there are times that there is no more seating in the Prayer Room!
Well, yeah you can check out my web site and e-mail me. See ya
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