Movin’ on up, Theo measures up.
Explained to 9yo that when I was a kid this was ultimate in handheld digital.
Laura calls me “Mama” sometimes but there are times only the other Mama will do.
Finished watching Lilo and Stitch but it’s still damp outside. Francis has the right idea.
Francis’s baseball game cancelled due to weather, prepping for a rainy day kid movie marathon.
Gregory’s pointing out plane, Laura’s crawling to field, Francis is hiding from poison ivy.
It’s it own kind of athletic prowess to get through an entire season of soccer without touching the ball in competitive play.
Team Avalanche if Winslow Youth Soccer
Parade at soccer. Theo’s team is Avalanche, so he vogues with hat (at Peter Volpa Memorial Park)
Mowed me some lawn this evening. Weeds be gone!
We’ve seen this before. Yahoo buys Tumblr, Tumblr becomes crap in 2 yrs, Tumblr is abandoned in 4, Karp buys back Tumblr in 6, by which point we’ll all be “who cares?”
Randy Oftedahl: What Divides Us and What Unites Us
If we Trust in God, isn’t it enough to know that we will be led on the path, however long and winding, that each of us is meant to be on? Isn’t Faith more than believing the “right” things, following the “correct” doctrine, infant baptism or full emersion, transubstantiation or consubstanitation, cessationism or continuing revelation, chilism versus realized eschatology…oh, where does it end?
Jez Smith: Fall in number of Quakers in Britain
The double fall in members and attenders comes despite Quakers having had high profile media coverage over the past couple of years, predominantly for their stance on recognising same-sex marriage as equal to different-sex marriage and campaigning for a change in the law to make it possible for Quakers to marry same-sex couples. The figures will give impetus to the new ‘vibrancy in meetings’ initiative that Quakers in Britain are developing.
LizOpp: Social justice and getting off the Quaker porch
As Friends, we often tell ourselves—and one another—that we must wait to be led by the Spirit before acting. But what I’m continuing to awaken to is that the intention to wait for such a leading has a harmful impact on entire communities that are suffering at the hands of oppressive bureaucratic systems
