fiercely alive — the peculiar adventures of peter and liz

Photo Friday: Razor Wire

October 28, 2011

A couple weekends ago, I spent a Saturday photographing Spitalfields during a workshop hosting by London Independent Photography. Spitalfields is an area of Tower Hamlets, including part of Brick Lane, that has become a cultural conglomerate: it has lots of East End heritage, with a history of cultural waves of French, Jews, and Bengalis, yet [...]

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A Close Community, or Popcorn Chicken is Comfort Food

October 25, 2011

This evening, after a few hours working on some photos to prepare for a girls’ exhibit Liz is helping with (more on that in coming weeks), we stopped to grab some dinner at the chicken shop on the corner of our estate. We haven’t been here much, mostly because we avoid fast food in general, [...]

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A Multiplicity of Churches, or Why Choosing a Church is Challenging

October 19, 2011

If you read our monthly newsletters, you know that we’ve been praying about a church to plant ourselves in for a while now. Since we arrived, we’ve spent our Sundays exploring different churches: evaluating (or judging…) the sermons, meeting the pastors and congregation, learning about their purpose and involvement in the community, and so on. [...]

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Photo Friday: Words, words, words.

October 15, 2011

I love looking at signs. This is wrapped up in a geeky fascination with fonts, typography in general, and how those choices—of, you know, letter shapes—wind up communicating feelings to us. Here’s some examples we passed on our walk home from Brick Lane the other day:

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Tuesday Tidbit: Graffiti, Brick Lane Style

October 11, 2011

Brick Lane, also known as Banglatown, is at the edge of our neighborhood that borders hipsterville. There is some truly impressive art and really creative graffiti lining the walls there; it’s exciting to be in an area with such vibrant color and life. Have a look:

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Photo Friday: Around Town

October 8, 2011

Hey friends! Sorry for the late Photo Friday, I’ve been busy working on a couple other projects the past couple days. Enjoy a bit more of a glimpse of our corner of Tower Hamlets:

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Tuesday Tidbit: Making a Killing on the Olympics Housing Market

October 4, 2011

Hey friends! Due to an ongoing succession of colds that Liz and I have been fighting the past few weeks, we took a short hiatus from posting. Sorry if you missed us! Many of you know that Liz and I are currently in the midst of looking for long-term housing within our immediate neighborhood. To [...]

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Tuesday Tidbit: From One Faith to Another

September 21, 2011

What does it look like to live side by side in a multi-cultural, multi-faith world? How can we learn from one another? How can we treat each other with grace, in spite of different beliefs and priorities? Perhaps most importantly, when something is not right, how do we respond? One of the things we are [...]

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Photo Friday: Chicken Biryani

September 16, 2011

Every Friday, Liz and I go to the same cafe near our house for lunch. It’s become quite a delightful ritual for us. Even more, being consistent has given us the chance to really start some friendships with the owners and staff at the place. We like being intentional like that—with just a little bit [...]

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Tuesday Tidbit: An Asian Wedding!

September 14, 2011

So this weekend we attended our first Bengali wedding! We’ve been slowly building a relationship with a neighbor family on our estate; I’ve been teaching one of the granddaughters a bit of ukelele, and her aunties have sent me home with plates of food as a thank-you. A few weeks ago when I was over, [...]