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Day’s Verse:
Go then, eat your bread in happiness and drink your wine with a cheerful heart; for God has already approved your works.
Ecclesiastes 9:7
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This is what our living room looked like this afternoon. Those of you who have visited know it was arranged nothing like this when we actually lived here, and it will look totally different again tomorrow when we finish packing all the miscellaneous bits lying around. Much of the furniture we intend to get rid of is grouped off to the left, towards the windows; all the stuff we want to keep is to the right. Then we collected the miscellaneous still-to-be-packed bits and those we piled against the Get Rid Of collection. Our empty kitchen with its painfully well-scrubbed white surfaces* is off to the right, and you can just see the edge of my reflective bike wheel, by the stairs to the outside. Our den is entirely boxes and empty desks, and the upstairs loft bedroom closet now contains things to give away. Ian has been stockpiling clothes and things he will need in his month and a half here by himself up there, too. I, on the other hand, have been just trying to make sure I don’t forget anything important. Continue Reading >>

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Day’s Verse:
Words from the mouth of a wise man are gracious, while the lips of a fool consume him; the beginning of his talking is folly and the end of it is wicked madness.
Ecclesiastes 10:12-13
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Despite the unemployment hotline receiving an “unusually high volume of calls,” last Thursday evening I actually did get to talk to a person. This person took all my information, but I didn’t understand him 100% of the time; he talked fast and with an accent that confounded my ears. After having taken all my information, he suddenly made a dismayed noise and told me his computer screen had gone black. D’oh! He said he remembered everything I had said, though, and filled in the form again, verbally confirming with me as he did so. Continue Reading >>