The World Series begins tonight! For the first time in recent years, both teams are very strong, with great pitchers and scary hitters. In recent years, one team or the other has been dominant; no Series has lasted more than five games. It would be great fun if this would be an [...]
The World Series Begins!
Oh! No!
The Wiliamsburg Prime Outlets has CHRISTMAS WREATHS up already!
Arghhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh…
When You’re Riding Your Bicycle
I got in about 30 miles today on two wheels, including a stretch on the Capital Trail along Rt. 5.
I’m so glad to see how many folks are out there on the Trail riding new bikes — which makes me think that they may be newly-active. That’s a real good thing! However, I wish more [...]
Historical Judgments in Formation
Don’t you wish you could have been a fly on the wall of President Obama’s speechwriters, when their Blackberries went off at 6:00 one recent morning with the message: “Uh, guys? The President has just been awarded the Nobel Peace Prize. We’ll need a statement by 10 this morning.”
I’ve enjoyed the clever folks who have [...]
What a Dream!
What fun it was, riding through Sussex County, Virginia, on a 36-year old bicycle this past Saturday! Rain threatened, which kept the numbers down. There were only nine of us. So, the ride was sociable. No one felt the need to pretend he was Lance. And all of us were old, so my bike prompted [...]
It’s On The Road!
A couple of months ago, I saw a new Bianchi in the window of Bikes Unlimited that’s actually a re-issue of a bike they made decades ago. It’s part of the “retro” fad in bicycles these days. It has old-fashioned frame geometry, a lugged, steel frame. It’s $3,000!
I thought, “Well, I have a bike that [...]
Health Update
It’s been well more than a year since “health update” was the title of one of my blog entries. Three years ago today, I was too sick to work, suffering from a fever and being treated for a malady it turns out I did not have. On October 24 of 2006, I was hospitalized, and [...]
A White Shirt and a Tie
You wouldn’t believe how well dressed folks are on the sidewalk, at our end of campus on Jamestown Road. That’s because of the new School of Business building. Faculty and even students are all dressed up in navy blue business suits, ties for the men; they’re much better dressed than nearly everyone I’ve visited at [...]
Hang Up and Drive
Drivers talking on their cell phones really pushes one of my buttons. Why? I’ll reveal that at the end of the following quotes.
Here’s some of an article by Matt Richtel, in yesterday’s New York Times, .
“The compulsion to work while driving often trumps clear evidence that such activity is dangerous. Studies show that someone who [...]
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- Spiritual Nourishment at a Council Meeting March 10, 2010Faith formation is the aim of everything we do as a congregation — every worship service, every study group, every children’s class, even every meeting! Yes, even meetings are sources of spiritual nourishment — when we’re attentive to God’s presence with us; aware that the work we are to be about is God’s work; discerning how [...] […]Pastor
- Word Play March 10, 2010A.) Out on my early morning bike ride, I saw this saying on a car license plate: Y Tax Is this driver protesting all taxes, or just the personal property tax? If I ever see that car in a parking lot, I think I’ll put this note under the windshield wiper: Y tax? 2 repair the roads u drive ur [...] […]Pastor
- Out Like A Lamb? March 8, 2010Robin and Linda Williams are a husband-wife folk singing duo who live outside Staunton, Virginia. Patty and I have seen them in concert six or seven times. (They usually play with two other musicians, a bass player and a mandolin player, who they call their “Fine Band.”) In one of my favorite Robin and [...] […]Pastor
- When the time is right… March 5, 2010During an April, 2002 visit to the Strand book store in New York City, I bought Walking the Bible, by Bruce Feiler. I had heard that it was good, and I thought I should buy it, because I should read it. (The bonus was that the book was on one of the countless remainders tables [...] […]Pastor
- Shuffling Along March 3, 2010I’ve been having a terrible time sleeping. You know, the basic stuff: awake in the middle of the night with the old confusion – forgetting that I’m not the Creator; I’m only the creature; and so I can’t “fix things”; I can only do the work God gives me to do; and so why am I [...] […]Pastor
- Could this be a new avenue for Christian civic participation? March 2, 2010I love this revision of the current populist mood! Could there be promise in this, for Christian civic participation? http://www.nytimes.com/2010/03/02/us/politics/02coffee.html?ref=todayspaper […]Pastor
- Giving Thanks for the Blessings of this Day … March 1, 2010… and praying for those who are suffering. I was moved by this picture of two Chilean women, with their children, at dawn. They are just outside of their houses, which were near the epicenter of the earthquake. All night, sitting up, worried about aftershocks and without shelter. And for a current report on the complete breakdown [...] […]Pastor
- The Lunar Phase February 27, 2010Last night, up for a “body break” in the middle of the night, I noticed how bright the light was outside. A full moon! That means Easter is only one lunar cycle away — since, of course, Easter is the first Sunday affter the first full moon following the Vernal Equinox. (Of course! You knew that, [...] […]Pastor
- Two colds in one season! February 26, 2010I never catch a cold! Well, that’s been true in past years. This week, I’ve been socked in by a terrible cold; the second one I’ve had in three months! (The first hit me at the end of Advent, and I simply had to keep going, or so I assumed in my [...] […]Pastor
- Rain is wonderful February 25, 2010I made an extravagent purchase a couple of months ago: a Bose “Soundlink” system. The system includes a plug-in to a computer’s USB port. When I go to a radio station’s internet site and click on its live stream, the plug-in becomes a transmitter, sending the signal to a portable speaker with incredible sound. I [...] […]Pastor
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