I'm not so cold.
I don't even have on the heater beside me as I write this.
Of course, I'm cold if it isn't 80 degrees, so I'd say I'm just a little chilly today.
I should probably move to Florida or Texas except they aren't a Blue as CT and Bern wouldn't come with me since she hates the heat.
She visited her cousin in Florida a couple of weeks ago and said she 'sweated like shit' the whole time.
Hold does a cold guy get a hot woman?
Beats me, just lucky I guess.
...or Mara Lago.
The President has been on the campaign trail for weeks now.
Not doing good for Republicans, but messing up big time.
Where ever he goes, new outlets find him forgetting things, bubbling around, making funny noises, demonstrating health issues and on and on.
Given his approval ratings the candidates he's supporting should tell him to stay home.
Never mind his threats to over-rule votes he doesn't like.
And telling folks to vote 'as if I were on the ballot' can't be much of a boost for the candidates.
But I'm glad he hasn't stayed home.
Go, Blue Wave!!!
There are only two TV shows I watch with devotion--Jeopardy and The Voice.
I like MSN news.
I like CNN news a little.
Sometimes I watch episodes of Seinfeld from the past.
And Bern talks me into watching episodes of some things from 8 til 9 p.m.--when she goes to bed.
I'll search around for a while after that but seldom watch anything for long.
Then I go to bed and read until it's time to sleep.
I'm not much of a TV guy as you can tell.
I prefer watching parts of Family Feud on line.
TV isn't my thing.
I prefer novels and being on the back porch reading (except now that it's cold).
Maybe when I'm 'in the home' I'll watch TV more to pass the time.
Church was wonderful. Great music, good crowd, visitors, wondrous coffee hour.
But I just realized I don't have church next Sunday and Bible Study on Wednesday is on hold, so I have two weeks with nothing to do....
I'll manage.
The Cheshire library is there.
We have TV.
I love to play hearts and solitaire on line.
There's a dog to pet and take out and feed treats to.
Bern is my best friend as well as my wife of over 50 years--and she's here to talk to and be with.
I think I'll handle to time off....
WVU Mountaineers won in Texas, beating TCU 24-20.
They have scored more than 24 in every game and given up more than 20.
They have a great offense and a terrible defence.
But they are my team.
I spend over 2 hours in front of a TV set groaning and hoping.
I guess it was worth it but it wore me out...
A West Virginia boy is always a West Virginia boy.
Besides, the other schools I got degrees from were Harvard, Virginia Seminary and Hartford Seminary.
That's 4 degrees if you're keeping score.
But only Harvard has a football team and I'm sure WVU could beat them.
GO MOUNTAINEERS....
Today is the first of two days of Diocesan Convention.
For the third or fourth year in a row--I'm not going!
I get excused because of my knees and my cane.
Besides, I don't think retired clergy should have a vote. We won't be around to see how things turn out so why should we vote on how things are going to turn out?
And so, I wouldn't vote--so why go at all?
Besides I find them boring since I don't have a stake in what happens at them.
Call me lazy if you want.
I don't mind.
Lazy is a good way to be....
I wrote my sermon today.
It's about the necessity of 'loving yourself'.
I know that is not something we talk about much--self love--but Jesus tells us to love God and love our neighbor AS ourselves.
AS means "in the same way that...".
So, if we don't love ourselves how can we love our neighbors 'as ourselves'?
And, how can we love God if we don't love ourselves?
Without self-love we would fear God, not love him/her.
We'll see how it goes on Sunday.
Wish me luck--and Love Yourself....
