At the beginning of each new school year, I feel like I need to justify my existence to my students, or perhaps it’s their existence in my classes. I teach the final three semesters of a four semester music theory and ear training sequence. Most musicians, unless you are super nerdy like me, probably would not take music theory if it weren’t required to get any kind of degree in music. I explain to my Theory II class that…
This is the daily devotion that I wrote and was published as part of our church’s daily devotion ministry. Don’t ask me how I know so much about toothaches and sin. 🙂 ______________ A gift from Kris Baker, Order of St. Francis and St. Clare at #cohdallas, a United Church of Christ congregation, today’s devotional is based on the following scripture : ScriptureLust gets pregnant, and has a baby: sin! Sin grows up to adulthood, and becomes a real killer….
A nice and calm Mother’s Day today…Offspring No. 2 and her significant other took me out to lunch after church. Then we, the mamas of four-legged fur babies went shopping for them. When I got home I took a few photos, played with the dogs, and wrote a final exam. It was an OK day.
Back when I was being faithful to my blog, I did a regular post each month called Five Fabulous Finds. In most cases it was a silly list of things that I had come cross during that month that were either new to me and that I found interesting, fascinating, edifying, or just plain fun. As part of my ongoing effort to get back in the swing of things here, I am reinstituting that monthly post today. It WILL appear…
With prayers for a blessed rememberance of Brother Francis…What might Francis say to us today?What Now, Francis?Waste notyour tears on me.on what wasor could have been,maybe should have been.Save your weepingfor those who live-the hungry, the thirsty, the cold,the sick, the beaten down, the longing-for those who still have breath.Turn all of your tears to hopeTo fuel God’s work-the death of injustice, pain, and suffering-with joy.Cry not for me;I have eternal life in Christ.Weep only,as I do,for God’s hurting people…
And yet again I am playing catch up…serious catch up this time. Time seems to be my nemesis these days. No matter what I do, I cant seem to stay ahead of the game. I have a lot going on right now, things that are pulling me in what seems like a million different directions. The only way that I am maintaining even a tiny piece of sanity is to just take one step at a time and know that…
Wow!, I just dont seem to be able to keep up with it all right now! Between school responsibilities, the tasks of working on my dad’s estate, and NOAH, I am struggling to stay afloat. I knew that I was a few days behind here, but I didnt realize that I hadnt posted a single photo all week. Where did the week go? Though I really dont have the time, I do manage to make the time each day to…
“Group Hug” Let me start by saying that this IS NOT the photo I was going for today! My intention was to photograph a hug. We do have a habit of starting and ending each day with a hug and by saying “I love you.” I am a firm believer in never saying anything that you wouldn’t want your last words to be. That said, the dog photo was a photo bomber. She quickly made herself comfortable between us, as…
Dear Blog and Blog Readers,I am sorry that I neglected you during the month of October. October became a whirlwind month of travels both literally and on the emotional roller coaster of life. Now that the month is over, I can look back and see that in the difficult days, there were also many blessings. In this single post, I am including most of the photos from October and the story of my last month. As you will see, some days the…
“Sailboat”