First a haiku: Scents of Ascension Incense, olive oil, beeswax caught up in my beard It probably isn’t quite the thing to say this, but I really love weekday liturgies. For one thing, we are almost always celebrating a weekday liturgy because it is a feast. And a feast means different hymns, probably different antiphons. [...]
Iron, Cannons. Cannon, with two Ns. I wish I could come up with a non-smart-ass mnemonic to help people remember that. Anywho…on Saturday a group boys and parents meet at a grandparents house for a hike, cookout, and cannon shoot! The Grandpa runs a cast-iron shop and collects cannons. On our hike we played in [...]
1. Paul and I have been reading Norse Myths as told by Kevin Crossley-Holland at bedtime. I have no doubt that it is much, much better than the recent movie about a certain Norse God. The story of Thor’s trip to Utgard was worth the whole thing. It’s certainly given us a number of name [...]
One. Paul’s class took a field trip to the American Museum of Science and Energy in Oak Ridge. Since I work about 5 minutes from there, I met them for lunch. It was cool getting to hang out with him for an hour in the middle of a weekday. It’s also very instructive/interesting to see [...]
My daughter turned 15 a few weeks ago. My, my, how fast they grow. Tonight we went on our birthday dinner to Olive Garden. When we started a few years ago, I told her I’d take her to Olive Garden on her birthday as long as she’ll let me. Well, Olive Garden is her choice, [...]
[I'm reading The Ladder of Divine Ascent over Great Lent and will share bits and thoughts as they occur.] Step 3 On Exile or Pilgrimage 9. Run from places of sin as from the plague. For when fruit is not present, we have no frequent desire to eat it. 10. Be on the lookout for [...]
Sometime, however, I express myself in verse. For posterity then, here’s a few (two may have been posted here, but I can’t find them). Song of the Pastry As the Sirens called to the sailors And the Kitsune to the samurai, As Delilah seduced Samson And Barbara Stanwyck seduced Fred MacMurray, So too this box [...]
St Justin Popovic, via Hieromonk Damascene, on the Lives of Saints leads me to ponder: who am I?
“How many things there are concerning which we might well deliberate whether we had better know them.” – Henry David Thoreau The Idea For an explanation, albeit brief, of why, read “Hopping off the Merry-Go-Round“. My Methodology I am on a computer all day at work, there’s no avoiding that. So, my overall goal wasn’t [...]
More than half-way through my experiment and still going strongish, kinda…or not. So, checking in from the wild edges of my former internet worship, things are still going pretty well. I’ve softened slightly on my goal of staying away from certain blogs and forums, but my visits to those sites weren’t about random surfing, but [...]