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Praise God and Pass the Potatoes: A Time for All Ages, Backgrounds, Abilities...
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Praise God and Pass the Potatoes. Blog for Amy Beltaine, UU Minister. - - - - - - - GO TO MAIN WEBSITE. Friday, August 29, 2014. A Time for All Ages, Backgrounds, Abilities. Some of the congregations I've attended still call that period of the service near the beginning, after the call to worship and first hymn, while the younger congregants are still in the sanctuary "Children's time" or even "Children's Story.". So I have two questions:. Do we WANT our service to be a time for all? And for how long?
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Praise God and Pass the Potatoes: October 2012
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Praise God and Pass the Potatoes. Blog for Amy Beltaine, UU Minister. - - - - - - - GO TO MAIN WEBSITE. Thursday, October 25, 2012. Sermon from 10-21-12 in Astoria Oregon. I wished that something I could say would make it better. I could not do either. Nothing would make it all better. It is a perfectly normal response, the fight or flight response. When something feels bad or wrong or scary, your instinct is to fix or flee. Luckily, we humans are more than just skills and instinct! Links to this post.
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Praise God and Pass the Potatoes: The Great Work, Preached in Bend Oregon Sept 1 2013
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Praise God and Pass the Potatoes. Blog for Amy Beltaine, UU Minister. - - - - - - - GO TO MAIN WEBSITE. Monday, September 02, 2013. The Great Work, Preached in Bend Oregon Sept 1 2013. The first Labor Day holiday was celebrated on Tuesday, September 5, 1882. Psalm 90:12-17 The Message) In the Hebrew bible, in psalm 90, the psalmist sings:. Teach us to live well! Teach us to live wisely and well! Surprise us with love at daybreak;. Then we’ll skip and dance all the day long. Confirming the work that we do.
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Miniver Cheevy: Malcolm Gladwell
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Some things I think are interesting. I love the ketchup article. As much as the next designer,. But Malcolm Gladwell is poison. Actively disinterested in the truth. An interesting article but murkiness quotient near 100%. If it is a learned taste a better product sells. If it is a comfort food dont bother. PB&J on white will always work. Wed Mar 04, 09:10:00 AM. Subscribe to: Post Comments (Atom). View my complete profile. LiveJournal feed of this blog. The San Francisco tech boom crisis.
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Miniver Cheevy: Why “Miniver Cheevy”?
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Some things I think are interesting. Why “Miniver Cheevy”? Ldquo;Miniver Cheevy” is the title of a semi-autobiographical poem by Edward Arlington Robinson. I first read the poem, and took a liking to it, in high school. The image of the suffering romantic poet spoke to my adolescent sensibilities. Around the same time, I joined a BBS: direct dialup to a computer in someone's basement. (Oh yeah, I'm online old skool: I remember when FidoNet. Was cutting edge.). Miniver Cheevy, child of scorn. He would hav...
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Miniver Cheevy: Greece & the EU
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Some things I think are interesting. Greece and the EU. So I've been trying to get up to speed on what's really happening with Greece and the EU. My man Paul Krugman says:. The European project — a project I have always praised and supported — has just been dealt a terrible, perhaps fatal blow. And whatever you think of Syriza, or Greece, it wasn’t the Greeks who did it. My favorite article so far about the situation is from Interfluidity. And they're offering a “helping” hand in order to fur...Greek jou...
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Miniver Cheevy: Jane Austen's The Terminator
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Some things I think are interesting. Jane Austen's The Terminator. This may be my favorite literary mashup, and since the text is getting to be linkrotted away, I'm hosting it here. Patience felt the echoes of those last words pass through her as though they had, themselves, been fired from a pistol. She noted how very odd it was that she was turning towards Mr. Terminus to hear his reply, as though this were a simple conversation of the weather and doings about town. “Mr. Terminus? Subscribe to: Post Co...
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Miniver Cheevy: Weren't the Nazis National Socialists, and therefore leftists?
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Some things I think are interesting. Weren't the Nazis National Socialists, and therefore leftists? Over at Crooked Timber, a useful long post by John Holbo Were The Nazis Right-Wing? 8211; or – Weimar Culture: The Insider As Outsider. Explains that yes, the Nazis really were a movement of the right, despite the confusing name. Since this is Crooked Timber, for once it's actually. To read the comments. Subscribe to: Post Comments (Atom). View my complete profile. LiveJournal feed of this blog.
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Miniver Cheevy: Pentagram of the Good Life
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Some things I think are interesting. Pentagram of the Good Life. This admirable and recondite spell from T. Thorn Coyle can be cast whenever friends gather. Tradition calls for all present to raise a glass of spirits while joyfully intoning the names of the Five Points in call-and-response, then sealing the spell with a sip of the spirits. Subscribe to: Post Comments (Atom). View my complete profile. LiveJournal feed of this blog. The San Francisco tech boom crisis. Sarah Palin, doubleplusgood duckspeaker.
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Unmasking Perception: February 2013
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My friend Dan always indicated that reality wasn't what mattered, but rather perception, and managing perception. Our perceptions mask reality, and often hinder our understanding. But, if we think a little, and peel back the layers (unmask) our perceptions, perhaps we'll perceive reality a little clearer! Wednesday, February 6, 2013. Dear Paul Krugman (from Angry Bear): Please Read This About Social Security. So, read the article here. But in summary (the key points! Social Security is not going broke.
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