The beginnings of my To Do List:

1. Start throwing away stuff
2. Pack
3. Write a chapter
4. Finish Harry Potter
5. Find a new place to live
6. Work on sermon
7. Pray
8. Mow the lawn
9. assume identity of Ragamuffin Klugmann and go inworld
10. Meditate and listen to Chris Rice some more...
11. check facebook
12. Eat
13. Sleep
14. Watch the season finale of 'Desperate Housewives'
15. Text
16. Clean office
17. Clean House
18. give away clothes and books
19. cry
20. ...."what I like best -- " (stopping and thinking). ...although Eating Honey is a very good thing to do, there is a moment just before you began to eat it which was better than when you were, but I don't know what it was called...


(When you are a Bear of Very Little Brain, and you Think of Things, you sometimes find that a Thing which seemed very Thingish inside you is quite different when it gets out into the open and has other people looking at it.)

One more reason I love the internet

Philosomatic weighs in on the recent General Assembly of the PSUSA.

I am so sorry, Saga, I didn't mean for this to happen! (can I have your bike?!)

“Spiritual Connections: Experiencing the Holy Spirit in Second Life”

You are invited to join the opening reception of the ECVA-SL art exhibition “Spiritual Connections: Experiencing the Holy Spirit in Second Life”

Sunday, June 29th
about 1:15pm PDT/SLT (or after the 12:00pm service at the Cathedral).

Look for the teleport to the exhibit room in the Conference Center once you land on Epiphany Island.

Spiritual Courage

"Courage is connected with taking risks. Jumping the Grand Canyon on a motorbike, coming over Niagara Falls in a barrel, or crossing the ocean in a rowboat are called courageous acts because people risk their lives by doing these things. But none of these daredevil acts comes from the centre of our being. They all come from the desire to test our physical limits and to become famous and popular.

"Spiritual courage is something completely different. It is following the deepest desires of our hearts at the risk of losing fame and popularity. It asks of us the willingness to lose our temporal lives in order to gain eternal life."

- Henri Nouwen

Yes, I visited the dance club ...

Bishop Whitaker on parliamentary procedure at General Conference

I agree 100%, the rules need to be changed.