Joyous feast! This is one of the weirder feasts on the calendar in my opinion :-), but it's presence is ameliorated by the absence in the East of supposed relics of the Lord's foreskin :-) (as there were in the medieval West ( Read more... )

Joyous feast everyone ( Read more... )

So yesterday was totally, in Shannon's phrasing, an "awkward Tuesday." Totally ( Read more... )

I'm sort of embarrassed to say it, but most of my praying the past few days has been for my parents' dog. It's embarrassing mostly because of the wretchedness of the lives of so many people here in Addis and elsewhere in the country, but it's a little more personal since my parents seem attached to Dixie and I myself find her quite sweet. My dad ( Read more... )