Two weeks from tomorrow night and it will mercifully be over!
Since I've been laid up I've watched much to much TV--mostly CNN and MSNBC. I love politics but several hours a day of it is driving me up the wall.
I can't wait for it to be over.
The other thing about day-time TV is that the commercials on all stations seem synchronized to be at the same time! Trump should talk about 'rigged commercial breaks" instead of 'rigged elections'....
I have found a station with lots of Burn Notice each day--I love Michael and Same and Fiona!
Seinfeld has aged a lot better than Friends. I guess a show about 'nothing' endures since 'nothing' stays about the same over decades.
Too much TV makes you a little loopy, it seems to me....
Monday, October 24, 2016
Saturday, October 22, 2016
out to church again
I won't be able to drive for another 3 or more weeks, but I'm getting a ride tomorrow to Emmanuel in Killingworth to preach and celebrate!
It will be so great to be in church again....
I haven't been to Eucharist since Sept.28---perhaps the longest time since the 1970's that I haven't been a part of a worshiping community.
I am, for the most part, very left-wing and unconventional about churchy things. But the sacrament is dear and real to me.
I really long for tomorrow and the Body and Blood of Christ....
It will be so great to be in church again....
I haven't been to Eucharist since Sept.28---perhaps the longest time since the 1970's that I haven't been a part of a worshiping community.
I am, for the most part, very left-wing and unconventional about churchy things. But the sacrament is dear and real to me.
I really long for tomorrow and the Body and Blood of Christ....
Wednesday, October 19, 2016
Being an adult
I'm still braced from ankle to thigh on my right leg, yet I'm going to Greenwich tomorrow with my friend to an all day Clergy 'safe-church' event.
I was going to Washington, CT on Oct. 1, but my surgery was Sept 28, so that wasn't possible. Greenwich is the last of a series of required 'safe church' sessions for clergy in CT. Failure to attend is considered reason to be suspended from active ministry.
I realize I've spent much of my life behaving as if 'the rules' didn't really apply to me. And though I'm sure my surgeon wouldn't want me out from 7 am to 7 pm, sitting up all day, I didn't ask him for a 'note to the teacher'. I'm going, like an adult, in spite of how tiring and uncomfortable it might be.
I realize this is nothing more than most people would do, but I've not always done what 'most people would do'. It's disingenuous, I know, to be sort of 'tooting my own horn' for doing the adult thing.
But I've not always done that, by a long shot.
So let me pat myself on the back this one time....
I was going to Washington, CT on Oct. 1, but my surgery was Sept 28, so that wasn't possible. Greenwich is the last of a series of required 'safe church' sessions for clergy in CT. Failure to attend is considered reason to be suspended from active ministry.
I realize I've spent much of my life behaving as if 'the rules' didn't really apply to me. And though I'm sure my surgeon wouldn't want me out from 7 am to 7 pm, sitting up all day, I didn't ask him for a 'note to the teacher'. I'm going, like an adult, in spite of how tiring and uncomfortable it might be.
I realize this is nothing more than most people would do, but I've not always done what 'most people would do'. It's disingenuous, I know, to be sort of 'tooting my own horn' for doing the adult thing.
But I've not always done that, by a long shot.
So let me pat myself on the back this one time....
Monday, October 17, 2016
When Ellie smiles...
Mimi and Tim (my daughter and son-in-law) visited this weekend with baby Ellie (my fourth granddaughter) who is just over two months old.
I'm still hobbling around on crutches and wasn't a very good host, but Bern was a fabulous host--and an even more fabulous grandmother!
Ellie is (and I know I'm prejudiced!) a remarkable little baby. Tim is 41 and Mimi is 38, so they are much more mature than Bern and I were at 25 and 28 when Josh was born and three years after that when Mimi came along. They are so calm and loving that Ellie is calm and engaging herself.
She sat in a little holder that rocked much of the time they were here. She looks around and seems to be thinking thoughts beyond her 9 week old brain and smiles a lot. And when she smiles--when Ellie smiles--we all melt....
We hadn't seen her for a month and she has gained lots of weight and even more 'adorableness' in that time.
It was a wonderful two days. I love them so. And I love everything about Ellie, but when she smiles I just dissolve into wonder....
I'm still hobbling around on crutches and wasn't a very good host, but Bern was a fabulous host--and an even more fabulous grandmother!
Ellie is (and I know I'm prejudiced!) a remarkable little baby. Tim is 41 and Mimi is 38, so they are much more mature than Bern and I were at 25 and 28 when Josh was born and three years after that when Mimi came along. They are so calm and loving that Ellie is calm and engaging herself.
She sat in a little holder that rocked much of the time they were here. She looks around and seems to be thinking thoughts beyond her 9 week old brain and smiles a lot. And when she smiles--when Ellie smiles--we all melt....
We hadn't seen her for a month and she has gained lots of weight and even more 'adorableness' in that time.
It was a wonderful two days. I love them so. And I love everything about Ellie, but when she smiles I just dissolve into wonder....
Friday, October 14, 2016
Clown apocalypse...
The Apocalypse is on us! It isn't zombie's or vampires or the Trump campaign...for goodness sake's, it's clowns!!!
Let me be honest here: I've never liked clowns very much. Too frenetic, too much makeup, silly noses, stupid shoes. And they try too hard. Give me a stand up comic or an old episode of Seinfeld when I want a good laugh any time. Clowns have always seemed a tad creepy to me--since childhood.
But I never thought of them as malignant until the past month or so.
What is it will all the scary clown sightings these days? Isn't it enough that a scary clown is running for President? Do we really need clowns slinking around in wooden areas freaking out folks?
McDonald's has announced Ronald McDonald won't be making public appearances while the clown sightings are at such a fever pitch....
Bozo is getting a bad name.
I just don't get it. But I don't get Twitter either....
Let me be honest here: I've never liked clowns very much. Too frenetic, too much makeup, silly noses, stupid shoes. And they try too hard. Give me a stand up comic or an old episode of Seinfeld when I want a good laugh any time. Clowns have always seemed a tad creepy to me--since childhood.
But I never thought of them as malignant until the past month or so.
What is it will all the scary clown sightings these days? Isn't it enough that a scary clown is running for President? Do we really need clowns slinking around in wooden areas freaking out folks?
McDonald's has announced Ronald McDonald won't be making public appearances while the clown sightings are at such a fever pitch....
Bozo is getting a bad name.
I just don't get it. But I don't get Twitter either....
Wednesday, October 12, 2016
Looking up...
I went to see Dr. Shei (Shay) yesterday and my recovery is well ahead of his expectations.
(So much for the "older people don't heal as fast..." naysayers!)
I start PT next week and though I'm still on crutches with the ankle to thigh brace, I can put weight on my right toes which makes getting around a great deal easier.
I can't drive but can travel and should have my leg back in a month--2 weeks earlier than he originally said.
Besides that, Mimi, Tim and baby Elli are coming up from NYC this weekend.
Things are looking up....(Not to mention Clinton's poll numbers!)
(So much for the "older people don't heal as fast..." naysayers!)
I start PT next week and though I'm still on crutches with the ankle to thigh brace, I can put weight on my right toes which makes getting around a great deal easier.
I can't drive but can travel and should have my leg back in a month--2 weeks earlier than he originally said.
Besides that, Mimi, Tim and baby Elli are coming up from NYC this weekend.
Things are looking up....(Not to mention Clinton's poll numbers!)
Monday, October 10, 2016
The Locker Room
OK, you've all seen the tape more times than you wanted to and heard Donald Trump half-ass apologize and then excuse it as 'locker room' talk, just stuff guys say to each other while naked in showers.
Well I've been in locker rooms in my day--through high school and for college PE. So, I've heard some crude stuff in my time. But in my memory most of it was evaluating the relative size of other guy's penises. There was stuff about girls, of course, and comments on breasts, but very little about sexual exploits. Of course I grew up in rural places where very little was 'private' and most guys didn't want things they said to get back to the girls they said it about. Some guys claimed to have a peep hole into the girls' shower room, but none of that panned out.
But I have searched my memory well and realize the crudest stuff was in Junior High.
And never in my life did I hear anyone talk about 'grabbing' any girl's...(you know the word by now!) That's a new one on me. All in all, we were cruder about each other than about females. Maybe I grew up in a more sedate place than Donald did.
But this I know and know fair well--'locker room banter' stopped at the locker room door. Fully dressed, no one I ever knew was as crude as Donald was on that tape.
And certainly, I've never heard anyone over 19 say anything like Donald did. If I'm correct in my math, he was 59 when that was recorded and had a pregnant wife at home!
Maybe I'm wrong about all this...or maybe Donald never grew up past 13. Who's to say...?
Well I've been in locker rooms in my day--through high school and for college PE. So, I've heard some crude stuff in my time. But in my memory most of it was evaluating the relative size of other guy's penises. There was stuff about girls, of course, and comments on breasts, but very little about sexual exploits. Of course I grew up in rural places where very little was 'private' and most guys didn't want things they said to get back to the girls they said it about. Some guys claimed to have a peep hole into the girls' shower room, but none of that panned out.
But I have searched my memory well and realize the crudest stuff was in Junior High.
And never in my life did I hear anyone talk about 'grabbing' any girl's...(you know the word by now!) That's a new one on me. All in all, we were cruder about each other than about females. Maybe I grew up in a more sedate place than Donald did.
But this I know and know fair well--'locker room banter' stopped at the locker room door. Fully dressed, no one I ever knew was as crude as Donald was on that tape.
And certainly, I've never heard anyone over 19 say anything like Donald did. If I'm correct in my math, he was 59 when that was recorded and had a pregnant wife at home!
Maybe I'm wrong about all this...or maybe Donald never grew up past 13. Who's to say...?
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