News of the day

 

 I don't have to go to Diocesan Convention! Yea! Bishop Jeffery gave me permission to stay home. (That's of little interest to anyone but me....)

The president met with the leaders of  Ukraine about more US missals. He told them no (and seemed to indicate he had asked Putin if he should....)

Lots of reporters (including from Fox News) gave up their permits to ask questions at the Pentagon since the former Fox News guy told them they couldn't ask questions about classified information...and some that was unclassified. Good for them! Don't give in.

Bern bought me a "No King in America" tee-shirt. Nationwide demonstrations are planned for tomorrow around that theme. People are standing up to the want-ta-be monarch in the White House.

I'm going to find the Cheshire gathering--there's going to be one--tomorrow.

Time to raise our voices for Democracy....

Diocesan Convention/ The Trinity

 

The Convention of the Episcopal Diocese of CT is October 24 and 25.

I wrote to the Bishops today to ask to be excused because of my continuing health problems.

We shall see. We shall see.

Yesterday at Bible Study at Trinity we spent an entire hour discussing the Trinity.

I'm amazed at the insights and questions people had.

An hour on the Trinity!

Quite a conversation.

I was delighted by it....

 

 

"The sky didn't fall..."

 

 

That's what Bern told me when I first saw her this morning.

I had no idea what she meant so she went on to tell me she'd been on her computer and nothing had changed.

I checked mine and found that the sky hadn't fallen on me either.

I got a comment yesterday from and old friend, M.M. telling me it would be 'just another day'.

So far the two of them are right.

 

Tomorrow I'll KNOW

 

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.

 

Waiting for the Storm

 

 

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.

 

Different days/different Presidents

 

 

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.}

 

writing my sermon

      

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.