Tuesday, March 22, 2016

I Wonder...

If James Taylor is on his way to Belgium to sing them another warm and fuzzy song?

Saturday, March 19, 2016

Yes, I Did Finish My Talk

And gave it.  Murphy's Law and Rebecca even came to give me moral support.  ML only smirked once, and that was at a point I knew he'd appreciate so I was watching him out of the corner of my eye when I got to it.

I'm not going to copy it into the blog because it's 19 double-spaced pages.  Also because I'd be cut-and-pasting out of Word and I bet that would put weird codes into Blogger and drive me crazy trying to edit the html.  So here's a link to it instead:  The Sacraments of Initiation Plus One.

The problem, as I mentioned before, was not in lack of material but in distilling an abundance of it down to a half hour.  Scripture, Patristic Literature, the Catechism of the Catholic Church (which is itself based on and cross-referenced to thousands of years of thought), just scratching the surface of the books we have available in our church library - I went through dozens of those colored, sticky page markers.

It was written to be spoken, so there's spots in it that could have been neatened up if I was really publishing it but I didn't bother.

And if you read it, you may also catch a Philips, Craig, and Dean reference:




Harumph!

Obviously no one was listening when I said "No!"


Thursday, March 17, 2016

Good Bye

...to one of the best friends a person could have.  And his doggies.


Thursday, March 3, 2016

Consumed

My life is.  By my presentation.  You'd think I was back in college working on a final paper.  Any time that doesn't have to be spent doing something else is being used to research or scribble.  And erase. And then scribble some more.  My books are full of little colored page markers as I sift through it all. 15 double spaced pages, and I'm projecting at least 3 more. Then I have to test the timing.  My brain is melting.

Tuesday, March 1, 2016

Just Thinkin'...

... that it's safe to assume that all those involved with the sturm and drang over Trump's supposed acceptance of racist endorsements have also been campaigning to get Bobby Byrd's name stripped off buildings, highways, etc. over here in WV.

Buehler? Hello?