• Today Was

    by  • December 23, 2017 • 0 Comments

    Today was sleeping in Lord of the Rings Rocky Rococo pizza achy legs and a bad back puppies whining waffles with syrup Bad Lip Reading Star Wars videos shopping mall rallying fast decision making Jimmy Johns sandwiches Emergen-C purchase puppy kisses money spending brothers gotta hug clean clothes wearing road trip chatting big band...

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    When Travel Goes Awry

    by  • December 22, 2017 • 2 Comments

    I was supposed to be on the plane at 4:40 AM. That was the final boarding time for my flight to Dallas, the first leg of a day trip to get to Wisconsin to see my brother and his family. I awoke at 3 AM to get to the airport, 2 hours after I...

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    Ground Clouds

    by  • December 19, 2017 • 0 Comments

    The exciting and odd experience of the day occurred this morning as I drove to work. When I left the house and headed to west, I noticed the mountains were behind a low bank of fog. I got on Wyoming and headed north, and got on Paseo and headed east to the freeway, and...

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    Of Fillings and Figurines

    by  • December 18, 2017 • 0 Comments

    It was a good day for a Monday for the most part. I ate Blake’s burrito for breakfast, drank a raspberry mocha, drank 3 bottles of water at work, skipped lunch, and then ate some tacos for dinner tonight. The tacos part was interesting because an hour before dinner, I had been in the...

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    NCC

    by  • December 17, 2017 • 0 Comments

    I’ve probably been going to New Covenant Church (NCC) for nearly two months now, with a few Sunday services missed for several reasons- reasons which have had little to do with apathy. I started attending there for several reasons after a prolonged layoff from church attendance. For one, I wanted to go back to...

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    Twenty Five

    by  • December 16, 2017 • 0 Comments

    Tonight, I just want to congratulate my sister and her husband on twenty five years as spouses. In this world of instant dinners and ultra recyclables, when a couple survives 5 years- aye, 7, past the “itch”- they are heralded as stable. But storms still come. Ten years, and they are a strong couple....

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    Lady Bird

    by  • December 15, 2017 • 0 Comments

    Tonight, while most of the rest of the country went to see the newest installment of the Star Wars series, I went to see “Lady Bird”, the writing and directing project of “usually the actress” Greta Gerwig. The film is autobiographical of Gerwig’s hgh school years, when, growing up in Sacramento, California, all she...

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    Mix

    by  • December 14, 2017 • 0 Comments

    I’m nearing the end of Hillerman’s memoir, and he has some good material on his life and experiences as an author. Now, his life as an author was heavily influenced not only by his adventures as a younger man, but also by his regimen as a journalist. Called consistently to report on issues related...

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    The Empty Room

    by  • December 13, 2017 • 0 Comments

    Tonight I just reflect on how tenuously connected I feel to beloved people so often. I think about Robert, who was kind of like me, looking for someone he could anchor with after he gave up drinking and sleeping with women, and I was his friend- some times better than others- until he the...

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    Divine Detours

    by  • December 12, 2017 • 1 Comment

    “When they came to the border of Mysia, they tried to enter Bithynia, but the Spirit of Jesus would not allow them to.” -Acts 16:7 This was not the first “No” Paul received on this missionary journey. A verse earlier, we read that Paul and Timopthy had also been denied entry to preach in...

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    Sabermetrics and Pastoral Success

    by  • December 11, 2017 • 0 Comments

    I was texting a little with Spriggs tonight, and he asked the question, “If you were a pastor or leader, how would you measure success in your ministry?” It’s a good question, and I suppose, in some ways, it’s a very American question, as success is historically an American preoccupation. Not that there is...

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    Going for Broke

    by  • December 10, 2017 • 0 Comments

    Today was a pretty good day, despite the fact my back has really bothered me all weekend. My back is weak, and that’s all there is too it, and the fact I don’t try to strengthen it and spend most every day sitting doesn’t help it much. But when you can’t move from lying...

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