A pot of patented James Yamakawa bean stew is on the stove, good for a very chill day.

And by chill, I mean cold and windy.

Spring, come back!

Mama Goose had her babies, 5 of them (one didn't make it), and they're all swimming now. The one that didn't make it got its beak through the shell then stopped. Lisa and I cracked it open (I was ( Read more... )

  Had an excellent time in the Inner Harbor yesterday. The meeting with Rev. Price went well. Gave me (and Lisa), a lot to think about. Funny thing is, it costs more to just submit an application to go into the ministry than it takes to get Lisa's boards. ($1200, just to start the application process.)

Apparently there's a plethora of testing ( Read more... )

Spent most of tai-chi last night in a sweat. Not that it was hot, plus we had the doors open and I was near them so there was a nice cool breeze. No, what caused me to sweat was that Master Alexander decided we need to have more cardio (true), and made me and Rob do Small SanSau 20 times. 10 attacking and 10 defending. At around 7 defending, I ( Read more... )

Let's see here, all the cool things we saw and did and ate today...

-Baby who was eating her stroller
-Community painting wall. For free, you got to pain a 4X4 inch square with tempera paints. Lisa wanted to paint "It Costs a $1.05 next to the "Freedom Isn't Free" square. She opted out for the sake of decorum. That, and there was someone ( Read more... )

So, I got up for Tai Chi, felt some craziness going on with m y stomach muscles, then went back to sleep.

Woke up almost at noon and feel much much better. Guess I really did need the sleep.

The Salisbury festival is this weekend, three days of food, fun, and ....well, actually, I have no clue as to what its all about. But its a ( Read more... )

       There is no reason for me to get up at 6a.m. on a morning when I don't have to be anywhere until 8. even if I'm riding my bike, 6:45 should be enough ( Read more... )

Why I Am Hostile Toward Religion

By Richard Dawkins

Reprinted from The God Delusion with permission of Houghton Mifflin.
Despite my dislike of gladiatorial contests, I seem somehow to have acquired a reputation for pugnacity toward religion. Colleagues who agree that there is no God, who agree that we do not need religion to be moral, and agree ( Read more... )

           I'll be damned if Spring didn't come back!

I spent the morning in the kitchen at Joseph House, making Chili and Cornbread for the homeless guys in Hospitality. 
As the sounds of Air Force One (The guys watch movies during the day, everything from Jesus to The Fighting Kentuckian with John Wayne) played from the other room, I ( Read more... )

Its one of those you can't escape, I guess. Ever since the first news of the killings at VT, I've been trying my half-hearted best to avoid the news (For an avid NPR listener, this is much harder than it sounds.) It seems like every time I turn the dial, there is is, staring me and everyone else in the face. Every newspaper headline. Every blog. ( Read more... )

            First of all, hats off to Bill for being a jolly good man in general and not being terminally ill ( Read more... )