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Welcome!
Welcome to my livejournal. Feel free to look around.
I keep my poetry posts (both of mine and others') under the poetry tag. Click here or just click the tag on the sidebar.
If you are looking for just my free/crowdfunded poetry, look under "Poetry Kitchen". Click here or on the tag on the sidebar ( Read more... ) -
Trouble in the word mines (Nano)
For many on the internet, NaNoWriMo (National Novel Writing Month) is an annual tradition full of people tracking word counts and complaining about writer's block to their friends. Some time back, an organization took the name and founded a website to provide trophies and writing resources and forums to make the complaining easier ( Read more... ) -
Politics, politics
I wouldn't say that Donald Trump is the only person who could possibly lose to Joe Biden, but he doesn't have a lot of company on that list ( Read more... ) -
A Scouting shanty
Pack Up Camp, Scouts
(to the tune of “Leave Her, Johnny”)
I heard the Senior Patrol Leader say,
“Pack up camp, Scouts, pack up-
Our Scoutmaster’s gone a little more gray,
And it’s time for us to pack up.”
Chorus:
Pack up camp, Scouts, pack up,
Oh pack up camp, Scouts, pack up!
The week was fun but now it’s done,
And it’s time for us to pack up. ( Read more... ) -
Back from AOL Camp (Arrow of Light, not America Online)
GK Chesterton once wrote, "An adventure is only an inconvenience rightly considered."
It was a very adventurous few days at camp.
This was the younger cub's first time at summer camp, with the whole summer camp experience. He's been camping plenty of times, but never quite in this fashion. The differences in how you pack and what to expect ( Read more... ) -
The Right to Say No
On the internet, there exists a group of people that argue that any artist who takes commissions should be willing to draw porn for them. They're willing to pay, and any artist who won't accept their commission just because that artist does not want to draw their favorite subject is a liar and a hypocrite who just needs to 'grow up' or 'get over it ( Read more... ) -
An Addendum to My Previous Post
I am officially the President of a small organization that supports Scouting ministry. It's very small these days- we had all of three members at our last annual meeting. The implosion of the UMC destroys other things that have become attached to it over the years ( Read more... ) -
Do Unto Others
I have a Tumblr account these days, and I regularly see people spitting venom at various people and groups- Elon Musk is a current favorite target. 'Terfs' is a common one. But the list is long, and I don't even follow that many other people. It's just the common culture. It's considered okay to say horrible things about people, to curse them. I ( Read more... ) -
A Word About Twitter
Two things can simultaneously be true about Twitter ( Read more... ) -
A little leaven
Matthew 13:33 -
He told them still another parable: "The kingdom of heaven is like yeast that a woman took and mixed into about sixty pounds of flour until it worked all through the dough."I recently made the decision to try making my own sourdough starter. The process starts easily enough- you take equal parts flour and water in a glass jar, mix ( Read more... )