Monthly Archives: September 2006
Quote O’ the Day – Henri Nouwen
To bless means to say good things. We have to bless one another constantly. Parents need to bless their children, children their parents, husbands their wives, wives their husbands, friends their friends. In our society, so full of curses, we must fill each place we enter with our blessings. We forget so quickly that we [...]
All About Your Birthday
For some interesting information about your birthday, go here. This is what I found out about me (as if you really want to know), and know that I deleted some of the astrological mumbo jumbo. I was born on November 9, 1961. You were born on a Thursday Your birthday falls into the Chinese year [...]
Thank God for This
This just in from TV Squad. Terri Irwin sure is an admirable person. She recently gave an interview to Barbara Walters, saying that the footage of her husband’s death will never make air. She hasn’t seen the video herself, which shows Steve Irwin being stabbed in the heart by the barb of a stingray while [...]
Quote O’ the Day – Frederick Buechner
“Listen to your life. See it for the fathomless mystery that it is. In the boredom and pain of it no less than in the excitement and gladness: touch, taste, smell your way to the holy and hidden heart of it because in the last analysis all moments are key moments, and life itself is [...]
The Superbowl, Monday Night Football, Priorities and Hyperbole
Tonight I watched some of the Monday Night Football game between the New Orleans Saints and the Atlanta Falcons. New Orleans dominated the game, winning 23 to 3 and the Superbowl looked great (as it should with more than $185 million being spent on refurbishing it – this leads to a question of priorities, but [...]
Desktop RSS Readers for Windows – Comparisons and Reviews
This post about Desktop RSS Readers. I know that many of you primarily use on-line readers such as Bloglines, Newsgator Online, Netvibes and Google Reader. So t if you like using an online service and don’t want or need to download your feeds to your computer, then this post is not for you. I, on [...]
Poems O’ the Day – Three Poems by William Coleman
I had not heard of William Coleman until seeing his name in Image: Art, Faith, Mystery. The biography is from the website of Image, as are the poems below. I hope you enjoy them, and if you are a person of faith who is also interested in the Arts. Image may be a periodical you [...]
Returning to Normal?
Things are slowly returning to normal around here in my neighborhood, and by this I mean: Jim will be returning later today from his gallivanting around the countryside; The Lincoln Center, an alternative school leasing some of our church, has pretty much settled in (though small issues seem to crop up every other day); My [...]
New Readers Group Blog Coming
After a little discussion with Julie of Lone Prairie Blog, I will be starting a Reader’s Group Blog for official launch in October and our first book will be A Canticle for Leibowitz. Possible sites for the blog will be Bibliophiles on wordpress.com, which can be found here, or The Librarium, which would be hosted [...]
Quote O’ the Day – Thomas Merton
I grew up in a little town called Bloomfield, nestled in the rolling hills of the outer bluegrass in central Kentucky. Population 1100, Bloomfield was known for only two things – it’s annual Tobacco Festival and the fact that it was home to the company that made Kentucky Kolonel Flour and Cornmeal. Little did I [...]
