Before 2016, much of my car-time involved taking a girl or two to an activity. For me relaxing in the car means talking about whatever’s on my mind. Or her mind, or whomever else’s mind. My nest is empty; no one’s in my car. But my musing doesn’t quit just because of that. So now you’re the one “Driving With Daughters!”
Hope y’all found something to chew on as you saw what I’ve been doing in class— I learned as a young Girl Scout that an activity in one arena can frequently bear fruit in another… it’s not double-dipping unless you use it twice in the same space. <smiles> As I settle in to draft my […]
Assignment 1,BI.233 “The Bible and the Hermeneutics of Ministry,”January 2019 Describe your understanding of Christian vocation and ministry (one page, single-spaced). As is no doubt unsurprising, my understanding of Christian vocation and ministry is deeply shaped by the polity and mores of the Presbyterian Church (now P.C.U.S.A.). Chapter Two of the Book of Order’s “Form […]
I woke at 6:30am this Saturday. Last night I kept to my cadence and sketched out the weekend’s tasks — a combination of house-manage and scholarship; that a-week-a-day class schedule waits for no weekend — and yet at about 10am I was adding more than half-again as many items, all of them submerged time-sensitive to-dos […]
Assignment 1, BI.233 “The Bible and the Hermeneutics of Ministry,” January 2019 Describe your beliefs about the Bible (one page, single-spaced). When I hold myself still and think back on my beliefs about the Bible, I can see that I’ve been startlingly consistent. I’ve been reading since before I can remember, and I remember reading […]
In business- or management-speak, and FTE (“full-time equivalent”) is a way to map the work/effort that needs to happen onto person-sized units. If a project is going to require two FTEs (yeah, a tiny project!), one then could put two people to work on it, or four half-time folk, or, or. There are some nuances […]
I’d thought my work-blocks would play themselves out differently, and I would write-write today. Still, we’re mostly level-set after camping for four days, I’ve brain-dumped over 25 action items, and I’ve finally been able to start stringing my warp for the loom of 2019. I hadn’t even gotten our kitchen calendar up! ** Originally, and […]
To write is to be in conversation with yourself, to preserve a state of being so you can conclude a sequence of thinking and feeling. The enemy to this process is intrusion. Children, in all of their beauty and wildness and strange genius, are, in the way of a meteorite, an intrusion. — Claudia Dey, […]
Do not telephone another home before 10am. . Do not knock on the door before 10am either. Their parents are still sleeping. . If you see someone out playing in the street — or in their front yard — before 10am, you may go play (after you tell your parent that’s what you’re doing). . […]
The sky is a brilliant slate blue after a thunder-stormy night. Propofol is an interesting anesthetic, in that it wears off quickly (for me, very quickly) except in the ways that it doesn’t. No legal or financial decisions today! I have been pretty sure My Sweetie fed me a diet chock-full of Real Food, and […]
EnneaThought® for the Day Type Five EnneaThought® for December 21st Today, do the opposite of your ordinary personality pattern. As a Five, leap unprepared into something and see what happens. (Personality Types, 173) Does it count if, instead, I slide sideways through my mostly unstructured day, playing Matchington Mansion over multiple sets of five lives? […]
