Answer the Random Dozen Meme questions... if you haven't already. ;)

They're from October 2010.

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So... my parents are coming to visit this weekend. They haven't seen my house in 5 years. On the one hand, I'm pretty excited.

On the other hand... OMG!
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Just checked my e-mail, and someone has tried to add me on FB. I don't recognize the name, and the profile picture is an ostrich.

Um... why?

Also saw this very disturbing article and kind of wanted to hurl. I mean we're flattered and all, but that is kind of creepy. REAL creepy.

“Sabbath is not dependent upon our readiness to stop. We do not stop when we are finished. We do not stop when we complete our phone calls, finish our project, get through this stack of messages, or get out this report that is due tomorrow. We stop because it is time to stop. Sabbath … liberates us from the need to be finished.” -Wayne Muller in ( Read more... )

I'm one of those people who really needs to write a will. My neighbor wants to as well. I guess you never know what might happen.

Also reading The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People by Stephen Covey. When you go, how do you want people to remember you? If you only had a few months left to live, what would you do?

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I greatly enjoyed this blog/article.

Suzanne mentioned the poet and teacher William Stafford who is recognized as one of the most prolific poets of recent times. For the last twenty or more years of his life he wrote at least one poem every day. And, to the dismay of his students at Lewis and Clark University, he assigned the same task. I can just ( Read more... )

Not very much of it in the media, but I enjoyed these 2 articles:
1. Hope House - Summer camp behind bars: Program connects kids, incarcerated dads

2. Cafe Reconcile, New Orleans - "Ten years ago Café Reconcile opened as a small, non-profit restaurant sitting in a dismal section of Central New Orleans. This café serves food, but it’s also about ( Read more... )

So today is most definitely a workday.

Being gone for 2 weeks and having warm weather with abundant rain makes my yard look abandoned. Weeds are up to my knees, grass looks wild, and even my bushes look terrible. You'd think I never cut them this year. I have 4 bags of mulch in my garage that I was supposed to get to in June. Oh well.

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Every once in awhile I think about starting a different blog or putting up a website (even though I hate web design).

I have fantasies of this incredibly deep, artistic blog on WordPress. Probably reinforced by reading this awesome blog by Carolyn Edgar. This chick is like, awesome. Or I'd do like this fabulous online resource for napptural ( Read more... )

Yesterday was the End-of-Year program for our Girls' Ministry. We had one or two parents, but the boys' program was most of our audience. Some touching moments... We presented the Coordinator with flowers, and the presenter broke down in tears, after which the Coordinator promptly burst into tears as well. Women. (LOL ( Read more... )