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Jewel's JC

Enigma - One that is puzzling or inexplicable.

About Me

Right now I'm really enjoying my new job.

As a career, I am working with an up-and-coming energy trading company to set up systems that will allow them to trade more efficiently in the North American Electricity markets.

In addition to that, I continue to grow and learn... Constantly.
I'm writing (books), creating (photography, graphic design, Web sites), managing (project manager, head of house), and playing (karaoke, dancing, PC games).

I actively manage six different web sites, four of which I "own". The other two are managed by me for others. My sites are focused on 1) technology and business management, 2) philosophy and personal, 3) family, and 4) friends / fellow graduates. If you have any interest in visiting them, let me know and I'll get you the addresses.

My photography is currently scattered over several sites. I'm working on using my No.2 site as my central gallery. I have a few photos up there with many more to come.

My Interests

Read My Writing at WritersCafe.org
Read My Writing..

Everything. Or it seems like it.

I am always thinking. My mind never stops. And I'm not single-focused, either.

I think a lot about how faith and quantum physics interact, about how anything is possible with enough pure energy.

I think about art. I have this crazy concept of a living sculpture that I want to "display" at some undetermined, but well-populated location called "The Perfect Kiss". Ask me if you want more info about that.

I think about practical issues: I have a mental design for an automated transportation system using electric vehicles that are powered by either powerful permanent or electromagnets under the road. Any extra power requirements would be provided by fuel cells. They would be controlled centrally by a traffic management computer with "ant" logic embedded in the vehicle should the central system fail. I even have some of the security and scalability issues solved (I think). Again, ask for more info. What I believe would make this workable is that it's based on simplicity, not complexity.

I think about music. It's a huge part of my life, and I have composed as well as performed. Never professionally, but passionately.

I think about love. A lot. What does it look like? What are its "markers"? If the greatest commandments are to love God and love Man, shouldn't we get a better grasp of just what that is?

I think about philosophy & science. They are inherently inseparable while also being seemingly mutually exclusive. This is an enigma that has puzzled philosophers and corrupted scientists for many years.

I'd like to meet:

Someone completely different. Someone who can't be stereotyped or put into a box. Someone who knows who they are and what they want from life, but are willing to find common ground, common purpose, and common goals. Someone who loves touch. Someone who thinks with their heart and their head. Pretty is skin deep. Beauty comes from within.

Update: I met her. Then I fell in love with her. Now I'm going to marry her.

Music:

Everything. Really. I listen to just about everything. Well, I don't listen to Rap normally, but it doesn't bother me. Pretty much everything else goes: Jazz, Rock, Classical, Bluegrass, Country, World, New Age, Celtic, Easy Listening, Christian, etc.

Movies:

Hero, Big Fish, Ben Hur, The Passion of the Christ, Dogma, Stigmata, Matrix, Sleepless in Seattle, Gladiator, Pi, A Beautiful Mind

Television:

CSI, CSI:Miami, CSI:New York, Stargate, History Channel, Discovery Channel, SciFi Channel, Full Metal Alchemist

Books:

On Writing: A Memoir of the Craft (Stephen King), Angels and Demons, The Chronicles of Narnia, The Tipping Point, John, Galatians, Genesis, Acts, Romans, et. al.

Heroes:

Jesus of Nazareth, James

My Blog

A Christmas Prayer

We have my parents' Christmas family gathering every year on Christmas Eve-Eve (December 23) because of my mother's desire to make sure that there was a night that everyone could get together. As my b...
Posted by Jewel's JC on Mon, 24 Dec 2007 09:41:00 PST

Remembering who I am...

My oldest son sent me a link to a YouTube video that was videotaped in 1997 at a concert in Lufkin, TX. He, a few friends of ours, and I had driven to Lufkin to see Rich Mullins, a contemporary Christ...
Posted by Jewel's JC on Sat, 25 Aug 2007 02:28:00 PST

We write...

We write because we HAVE to. Something is locked inside of us clawing its way out and can only be expressed in verse or prose. We can't speak it because the monster only finds peace in legible, tangib...
Posted by Jewel's JC on Wed, 07 Feb 2007 07:34:00 PST

Incoherence

Would someone please shoot me?I have what I do not want and want what I do not have. It's wrong... or at least people think it's wrong. All I know is that I want to be held. Loved for who I am, not ho...
Posted by Jewel's JC on Sat, 24 Dec 2005 12:05:00 PST

Something feels wrong...

Something feels wrong. I don't know what or why. I don't even know that it's accurate. That's why I'm writing. Get it out. Look at it. Pray about it.My first blush is that this isn't God trying to spe...
Posted by Jewel's JC on Tue, 14 Nov 2006 06:16:00 PST

I thought I knew

I thought I knewWhat love looked likeAnd then I met you I thought I knewWhat "cherish" meantAnd then I met you  I thought I knewWhat it felt to honor and be honoredAnd...
Posted by Jewel's JC on Tue, 14 Nov 2006 05:48:00 PST

My semi-biography: The Nature of God

I started writing a book a few years ago. Actually, I started writing three books. Every time I tried to work on them, I didn't get very far. They just never seemed to "gel" (like "gelatin"), and I ha...
Posted by Jewel's JC on Fri, 27 Oct 2006 11:02:00 PST

Ruminations

What I once thought was true was a lie. I have found that my life is this continual journey of discovery, of learning more and more truth and unlearning the lies. I've begun to learn what's importa...
Posted by Jewel's JC on Tue, 10 Oct 2006 05:56:00 PST

OK, I'm not freaking out anymore...

I really don't know how to start this. It's a continuation of the last blog, so I'll start assuming you have read my prior entries. I'm not freaking out any more. I chose life. No, that's not a missp...
Posted by Jewel's JC on Mon, 11 Sep 2006 09:45:00 PST

Kinda freaking out...

I probably don't look it yet, but I'm starting to freak out.I watched my grandson for my daughter about three weeks ago. He couldn't go to the daycare because he was sick, so I agreed to watch him. We...
Posted by Jewel's JC on Thu, 31 Aug 2006 05:23:00 PST