(Unrelated: I’m composing this from my sunny backyard, with noise-making creatures all around. Central Texas springtime is springing.) affordance. plural affordances. psychology. : the qualities or properties of an object that define its possible uses or make clear how it can or should be used. —https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/affordance Last week, and a good slug of the week […]

Merciful Savior, we are bone-weary, discouraged, even hopeless. We want to run away from responsibilities and needs that never end. Our own forgetfulness separates us from you: we forget to be grateful for your many blessings. We forget to serve in your strength, not our own. We forget to pray first; instead we exhaust our […]

I find it bemusing how my Fridays have devolved into one hands-on interaction after another. I used to spread these out through the week, but spring term 2018 isn’t playing that way. So here’s a quick wave as I spiff myself up to head out to honor my friend’s birthday over dinner. His January 15th […]

(that is, everybody has text conversations like this. right??) M: Ooooo! Nice final quote on the blog!! I am frequently worried I’m not M-ing enough, or haven’t chosen the best M version to be. K: Thanks! That quote’s one of my favorites. I think about it a lot. M: Another I’m fixed on: You are […]

I went to visit the black screen after lunch, to see whether it was all dead or only mostly dead. It had something stuck in its booting-up craw, so stuck it didn’t want to boot in any of the ease-it-on ways I know to tell it to try. Perplexed, I decided to see whether getting […]

Yesterday I had plans. Similar in form and function to the plans I had each day last week, and the week before that… You can see where this is headed. Yep. Got home from church, and hanging out with a friend for an impromptu hour, …and took a three-hour nap. Talked with B after dinner, […]

Without all knowledge of self there is no knowledge of God …For, quite clearly, the mighty gifts with which we are endowed are hardly from ourselves; indeed, our very being is nothing but subsistence in the one God. –from Book One, Chapter One of the Institutes of the Christian Religion, John Calvin Heard that today […]

I’m tired of blaming the weather. I’m tired of having this, or that, or the other thing waiting to be squared away. I’m tired of ignoring this|that|the other in order to address the persistent drowse. I’m tired of seeing inadvertent self-serving motives dressing up as inclusion or thoughtfulness. I’m tired of being tired. At this […]