Archive for 2010
Monday, August 2nd, 2010
Ugh, yes, we are ALL human.
Wouldn’t it be nice if we could somehow actually attain perfection in some small area of our lives? Just when you think you’ve got your bathtub scrubbed, your desk organized, your head together on a subject, or completely pwned your competitor, as you realize how far you’ve come, you simultaneously recognize how much farther you’ve [...]
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Monday, August 2nd, 2010
YES! Discovering the draw of the Psalms -
I keep Psalm 130 just to the left of my monitor for awful work days, the ones when I feel that the work I do is meaningless (most days) and unending (hell days). I love to say, 1 Out of the depths I cry to you, O LORD; 2 O Lord, hear my voice. Let [...]
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Tuesday, July 27th, 2010
And on the Twelfth Day, I rested…almost.
Wow. What a wonderful evening I had last night. I tell you what, I have been on the go for the last 11 (consecutive) days. I don’t know if its that time of the year or if that’s life. I’m still getting used to the whole ‘adult’ thing, so I don’t have a frame of [...]
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Wednesday, May 5th, 2010
Mother of Pearl!
I am so humiliated! embarrassed! distressed! It’s in moments like these that I realize how much I paid attention in elementary school, and took the lessons taught me to heart. Today I fought back tears, at least thrice, at the dentist. “The dentist?!?” I hear you ask – “why at the dentist?” asks those without [...]
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Tuesday, April 27th, 2010
Mourning Rouse and Company and WQSR
Sometimes I get so sad, missing 105.7 WQSR. It was the soundtrack of my childhood – my mom and I listened to it while cleaning the house, or doing errands in the car before I was school-age, and every morning it was my alarm and companion while getting ready for middle school; my bus drivers [...]