Sunday Post

“The meaning of prayer is that we get hold of God, not of the answer.” – Oswald Chambers
Psalm 46:10

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Troop 1/2Ass has the Year’s First Meeting

Well, it’s happened again. Remember this, about how having LG in this particular Grrl Scawt troop makes me feel like I’m in the parenting twilight zone? Yea, still there. The details of transportation for all the scawts were discussed ad nauseum at the unofficial cookie meeting, a couple of weeks ago. [...]

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I would say this is evidence that I’m burned out, but I’m afraid to light a match

“How was your work tonight?”
“Not good. I feel terrible. And my family won’t stop farting.”
“We’re not farting.”
“No, not you guys. My client family at work.”
“They . . . just fart? Do they apologize or . . . “
“They laugh. They all fart and laugh.”
“Do you laugh?”
“No. I’m not amused. [...]

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Sunday Post

“Ultimately we know deeply that the other side of every fear is a freedom.” – Marilyn Ferguson
Isaiah 41:13

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File under: Be careful what you wish for

An encore photo presentation, in honor of “Talk Like a Pirate” Day

When I went to pick up LG from the Girl Scout meeting at a house in the neighborhood, I was mightily impressed by the family mutt there in the doorway. She lay right in front of the open door, facing out, as tweens [...]

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Sunday Post

“The things Jesus did were of the most menial and commonplace order, and this is an indication that it takes all God’s power in me to do the most commonplace things in His way. Can I use a towel as He did? Towels and dishes and sandals, all the ordinary sordid things of [...]

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Crotchety

An exchange with Nils on the previous post reminded me of an amusing parenting gaff from LG’s preschool years. We always used “proper” names for body parts, rather than euphemisms, with her. She could identify her own parts, nose to toes, and those parts that were other than her own, on illustrations of [...]

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Pop Nostalgia

I’ve always been a big TV fan. I even studied TV in college — the history, the cultural implications, production, direction, etc. Love it. And I’ve passed that love on to my kid. I didn’t let her watch as a baby, and I’ve always monitored her viewing closely, but I [...]

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Is That a Sofa on Your Fence? (or “What the heck was that Sunday Post all about?”)

Gosh, I love you guys. As is usually the case with these Sunday Post things, it means something to me and/or I have one person in mind who reads here, for whom I thought it might mean something. AND I think of it (the photo, the quote, the scripture) as being “projective,” i.e., [...]

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Sunday Post

“Anyone who isn’t confused really doesn’t understand the situation.” – Edward R. Murrow
2 Corinthians 5:7

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