Random Acts of Blogging
Just some disconnected thoughts for today....

• Today is my wife's birthday. Nothing in particular to say about that other than it is amazing to be married to the same person all these many, many years. What a joy!


• Amazon.com just informed me that my copy of Doug Pagitt's new book, Preaching Reimagined, has been shipped.


• After one has spent some extended time on the water as I did recently in the Apostle Islands, one looks at all bodies of water differently. There is more respect, more awe, more fear.


• Which leads to this thought that came last week as we flew into Tampa, Florida from over the Gulf of Mexico and I looked down and saw houses and houses and houses built right into the Gulf. I wonder how those houses will survive the big storm that will hit there one day.


• I am hopelessly hooked (note: as an addictions counselor I did not say I was addicted) on the Jamble word game on the site, It's Your Turn. But they are down after a major disk and backup crash. Bummer!!!

And sadly at the end...

• Brother Roger, founder of the Taize community has died. I never met him, but I have high regard for his spirituality as he developed a true liturgical protestantism that appealed to many longing for such deep and profound roots. Here and here are some remembrances of him.