There's an old saying I like--"I won't know until I know."
Tomorrow Microsoft goes to Windows 11.
I didn't get a new computer to receive the update.
Bern did all she could find out to minimize the change.
But I won't know until I know--tomorrow I'll know.
So, if you don't find anymore posts after today--you'll know that I know.
Not sure what I'll do.
I have to wait and see.
But tomorrow....Well you know what I was going to say!
We'll see.
It was supposed to storm, starting late morning, with winds that could cause power outages.
It's 4:12 p.m. and there is a drizzle of sorts--but no wind.
Maybe it will come later, but maybe not.
I'm expecting another kind of storm as well--one that hopefully will sweep the nation and drive back all the wrong-doing of the Trump administration.
I'm still waiting for that too.
Democrats, for the most part, seem to be in a power outage of ideas and actions.
But I'm waiting and hoping for that storm, if and when it comes.
I'll just wait and see about the weather.
Back on November 9, 1968 a letter from out-going President Lyndon Johnson to Tom and Dick Smothers, the musicians and comedians who had made lots of fun of Johnson in their songs and jokes.
The Letter read: "It is part of the price of leadership of this great and free nation to be the target of clever satirists. You have given the gift of laughter to our people. May we never grow so somber or self-important that we fail to appreciate the humor in our lives."
Wow! A president thanking two men who satirized him!
Compare that to our current president's ire toward Jimmy Kimble and Stephen Colbert. And the lengths he has gone to silence them.
Wow! Some difference....
(Oh, by the way Richard Nixon saw to it that the Smothers brothers show was cancelled....)
{I got this from the Oct. 13, 2025 issue of THE NEW YORKER.}
I wrote my sermon today.
It's based on six words Jesus says according to Luke.
"Your faith has made you well."
He says that to a Samaritan leper that was healed.
But I hear him saying it to me and the folks at Trinity.
I am not well. I worry so much about the direction of our country that it is hard to focus on the good things of life.
I warn the folks that I'm going to be political and Episcopal priests are supposed to keep politics out of their sermons.
I tell them my bishops might be upset if they know I did this.
But I tell them it won't be the first time a bishop has yelled at me!!!!
Somehow my 'faith' and the 'works that come from faith' must help me do something about what's happening: soldiers in the streets, ICE arresting people without following legal rules, the loss of health care and financial assistance this administration has caused.
The 'works of faith' can make us and U.S. well.....
I pray so.
I don't worry much....
I'm usually quite calm.
But what the President is trying to do--become 'absolute ruler' of our country--troubles me a lot.
What to do makes me worry.
I'm going to get in contact with our Senators and Representatives from CT. But they are all Democrats and already agree with me.
I certainly pray about it--but God hasn't stepped in yet to stop the trumpism.
But 'action' is better than 'worry'.
I only hope enough people agree with me.
I hope we can pull this off.
In the store today, getting a six pack of ginger ale, I asked the woman in front of me if I could go before her. She graciously agreed.
So, I did.
I wave people into traffic and don't care if they wave in thanks.
When I'm waved into traffic, I always wave in thanks.
Looking out for each other may be how we should live in these trumpian days.
That's what we need to do, all the time.
Look out for each other.
Maybe the world will catch on.
I hope and pray....
I went to the dentist today.
She is a tiny woman whose ancestors are from India.
She replaced a filling in a front tooth.
My lips were numb for at least two hours.
Strange things to have--numb lips are one of them.
When the feeling came back I discovered a lot of food behind my lips.
Strange indeed.
