Archive for June, 2004
30 June 2004 | 09:30 AM
A Day of Preparation
~~~ Day’s Verse: For we know that if our earthly house, this tent, is destroyed, we have a building from God, a house not made by hands, eternal in the heavens. 2 Cor. 5:1 ~~~ …Hopefully our tent will not be destroyed on this trip, anyway! Zoe and I are off to Lake Annette Thursday [...]
28 June 2004 | 06:25 PM
I Ask You
Did blogging catch on so well because people like thinking in short paragraphs? Because people like to fit the world into clever or valuable links summarized in a few words? Because people feel they are heard by putting their briefly-outlined lives on the internet? – KF -
28 June 2004 | 12:17 PM
Fresher than a Just-Picked Strawberry
~~~ Day’s Verse: A merry heart makes a cheerful countenance, but by sorrow of the heart is the spirit broken. Prov. 15:13 ~~~ A blog worth reading – Mrs. Sundberg. It’s funny, you know, that for years I yearned for summer. Now it’s a time of dry heat — try 100 degrees in the sun, [...]
27 June 2004 | 08:44 AM
A Garrison Keillor Type of Weekend
Saturday we joined thousands of over-the-hill couples in the afternoon sun at Marymoor park listening to Garrison Keillor talk us through a wonderful Prairie Home Companion. It contained all the best parts of his shows – Guy Noir, private eye; Lives of the Cowboys with Dusty and Lefty; and the sound effects man who does [...]
25 June 2004 | 10:27 AM
UW-ing It
Once upon a time… just kidding; I wouldn’t start a blog that way! I’m actually at the UW right now, in the Mary Gates building (I think) watching over 30 8th and 9th graders. They’re finishing their last day of a bioengineering camp that Mom helped put together and run. I got recruited to keep [...]
22 June 2004 | 09:21 AM
Empty Nesting
~~~ Day’s Verse: He said to me, “My grace is sufficient for you, My strength is made perfect in weakness.” Therefore most gladly I will rather boast in my infirmities, that the power of Christ may rest upon me. 2 Cor 12:9 ~~~ Yesterday, checking on the baby birdie progress, I startled the remaining to [...]
19 June 2004 | 01:38 PM
My Summer Out of Water One Fish’s Lament Upon Finding Itself Out of Its Creek
~~~ Day’s Verse: But be doers of the word, and not hearers only, deceiving yourselves. James 1:22 ~~~ Everything is so quiet in the summer. No hurrying to catch the shuttle, no smiling at strangers I see every day, no waving at the nameless WPI employee who hauls trash cans in a red pickup truck. [...]
