paulapalooza's recommended reading and suchphilologist offers good reads, films, music(Untitled)- October 31, 2005 Well, because I need to have my complete application into the Presbytery by Nov. 1st, I am now sitting down to complete the remainder of it and fed-ex it off to the appropriate persons. I really need to learn not to put things off until the last minute. Maybe that's the most important thing to work on right now.http://blogs.salon.com/0001520/2005/10/31.html#a281 (Untitled)- October 18, 2005 I went to sleep last night with the thought of my dear friend Dawn on my mind. Her best friend Michael is experiencing a deep pain right now -- his mother died last night. It's terribly hard when a close friend is hurting so badly. It's hard to try and offer comfort because they may be experiencing something that you've never been through. My best thoughts are that she should just be near him; she could find someone else to take care of her family for a couple of days and just.http://blogs.salon.com/0001520/2005/10/18.html#a280 (Untitled)- October 18, 2005 There are some kinds of sadness that never go away. One is the deep sorrow you feel when you lose a parent. It is renewed every time you celebrate a victory, when you have a question you need answered, or when you have a problem to solve. My dad's been gone near 14 years now, and the sadness, though not present every day, lingers and tugs at my heart on a morning when I'm deep in thought. Another is the sorrow you feel when you lose a peer. It is accompanied by a sense of.http://blogs.salon.com/0001520/2005/10/18.html#a279 (Untitled)- October 14, 2005 RIP Dusty Sometime in 2003 -- Wednesday, Oct. 12, 2005 he was a good little dwarf hamsterhttp://blogs.salon.com/0001520/2005/10/14.html#a278 (Untitled)- October 13, 2005 Bump in the Road Okay, the road to ordination is a little longer than I expected. Let me rephrase that: the little on-ramp to the Inquiry overpass is longer than I thought. I mentioned earlier that my application for Inquiry was 5 pages long: it is actually 40 pages long. Yes, 40 pages. So as you can well imagine, I've been immersed in completing that project. Most of the writing is finished. The rest is just filling out forms like, "How will you...http://blogs.salon.com/0001520/2005/10/13.html#a277 |