Tues. Dec. 4, 2012Get more vertical: hike, climb to a high place, pogo or trampoline. Lift your chin to the sky and remember whose you are.

-from Molly's Advent calendar ["Advent and Christmas 2012: Incarnation"]
The end of the workday yesterday, I was feeling kinda pissy, so coming home I kinda wanted to just bike for ages, but I also wanted to ( Read more... )

I had the window fan running in my bedroom last night, and when I finally got up ~10 this morning, it felt fine, but when I left my bedroom it felt decidedly cool in the rest of the house. Thermostat said 70F (we kept the house ACs running overnight, knowing we'd heat the place up today with cooking & guests -- Melissa's estimate last night was 19 ( Read more... )

"Joy Sadhana is a daily practice in the observation of joy."
-mylittleredgirl [ more info]
On one occasion, Jesus told them [the apostles Jesus had chosen] not to leave Jerusalem. "Wait, rather, for what God has promised, of which you have heard me speak," Jesus said. "John baptized with water, but within a few days you will be baptized with the Holy Spirit ( Read more... )

Mon. Aug. 15

( sunny, touristy )

Fri. Aug. 12, 2011My friend Becca (from my first year at Smith) and her wife Angela live in Sacramento, and in my tour of the Bay Area I visited them. (I'm returning the favor in September when they come out to Boston for part of Ang's UU candidacy process -- though that'll be more about providing gratis crashspace and less about playing tour ( Read more... )

My housemate came home last night and said, "So, bets on whether it actually snows this time?"  When I left my house ~7am, there were some flecks of snow on the parked cars -- which could have been confused for frost.  While at the gym, I saw through the windows snow falling.  The snow kept up throughout most of the day, but it was never all that ( Read more... )

SCBC

In SCBC Adult Ed, we've been doing a series of short (~10min) films on faith communities and environmentalism. (Though after Haiti, we did a session on "Where Is God When Disaster Strikes?"The first one was about evangelicals in Appalachia and mountaintop removal (something Annie B. preached on at CWM some months back ( Read more... )

I didn't end up getting to bed until like 11:30pm last night.  I woke up at like 5:55am (and got up with my 6:00 alarm) and still went to the ( gym )

Quoth Karen Oliveto just now.

Whatever. Means I don't feel bad about having taken the whole slice :)

Edit @ 9:40 A guy just walked by and said, "Do you like chocolate?" I said, "Yes!" and he handed me a king size Hershey's milk chocolate bar. (Yes, I'm sitting out in the foyer while everyone else is doing Called to Witness Believe Out Loud

At dinner tonight, I realized that one reason I'm tired (besides the fact that I went to bed ~12:30 and got up ~6:00) is that while the clock said 7:30pm, as far as my body was concerned, it was 9:30pm.

( blah blah, uneventful travel etc. )