We have prayed for peace,
Unknowing of what we truly ask.
Peace cannot come into the house
Where love is unwelcome.
Peace cannot come into the land
Where injustice and oppression live.
Peace cannot enter or be fostered
In souls that still engage in dispute.
Peace does not come meekly and unarmed.
Peace needs the pathway of our ( Read more... )

The whole crew went to see PACIFIC RIM yesterday ( Read more... )

Exodus International (the horrible ex-gay reparation therapy outfit) has apologized and shut up shop:
"...Please know that I am deeply sorry. I am sorry for the pain and hurt many of you have experienced. I am sorry that some of you spent years working through the shame and guilt you felt when your attractions didn’t change. I am sorry we promoted ( Read more... )

I won't say that life has been terribly devoid of Good Things since the end of May, but with the start of Summer Reading, the continued absence of the peripatetic hapaxspouse, the tumultuous return of the equally itinerant hapaxdaughter, the catastrophic reclusion of the BRAND! NEW! automobile to the Collision Center (with the accompanying panic ( Read more... )

They Summer Reading Club starts on Saturday, and our online system still shows last year's artwork and programs.  We paid the software providers a hefty chunk of change to set it up for us, and they insist that everything looks fine on their side, they have no idea what the problem could be, but just for us, they'll call in a repair ticket.  Swell ( Read more... )

Many of you have heard me rave about my love for the whipped olive oil body butters from Temecula Olive Oil company -- especially the lemon verbena and the lavender scented versions.  I've always received them as gifts (my family knows what I like!)  but I decided to order them for myself for the first time online with my birthday money this month ( Read more... )