Here. That would a tremendous thank you to those of you who prayed on command. And please keep going. Thanks.
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Happy New Year . . .
. . . from Pithless Thoughts: Annotated New Year’s Resolutions.
(And yeah, I have a totally serious resolution post sitting in my drafts folders. Maybe it will see light of day. In what form, who knows?)
And now, to work. My resolutions are impinging on my hobbies. Presumably that is a good thing. If I seem to be blogging too well, someone slap me and tell me to get back to real work.
Please Pray for John C. Hathaway
Can’t believe I didn’t post this earlier today. Anyway, please pray for John Hathaway. You can be confident he will return the favor.
He is requesting the intercession of Bl. Herman and Bl. Margaret of Castello.
Thank you.
(His blog is here, for those who don’t know him. If I could only have one other family in my parish, the Hathaways would win. Utterly delightful to people know.)
bleg from the Livesay’s – courier needed in TX
I don’t see an update on the Livesay’s blog saying a volunteer has come forward yet. So posting this request since there are known Austinites roving the internet even as we speak. Please check their blog first to make sure another driver has not already volunteered before you deluge them with offers:
We are in looking for a person that might be traveling from Austin to Waco between this very moment [12/29/10] and 5pm on Friday.
There is one 50 pound bag of supplies for the Heartline sewing program that is needed in Haiti. It was left behind by a traveler due to issues at the airport yesterday. We are unable to get to Austin and back without losing what is left of our minds.
Any of you Austinites headed north soon? We can have the bag brought to you in Austin if you will meet us in Waco before we bail out on Friday afternoon.
Please contact us if you are!
T. & T.
Twitter: troylivesay
Email: tl7inhaiti@yahoo.com
The request was posted (last night) Tuesday night 12/28/10.
Contact them (not me! I know nothing! I am a random internet fan!) if you are running that route and have a little cargo space.
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PS: If you forward this to ten friends in the next half hour, you will get 60 additional days in purgatory and/or your internet license suspended.
PPS: Bill Gates will know nothing about it, and there is no free trip to Disney for anybody.
Graham Cracker Houses
Dorian wants a gingerbread house recipe. I’m sure some handy person will help her. But though I have a horror of MDF “lumber” and other such confections in real houses, I’m sold on the pre-fab SIP of culinary architecture.
No, graham crackers do not taste anything like real gingerbread. But are you really going to eat the house after it has been sitting out for ten days? You? No. Your kids, yes. They will pick off the ants if they must, just to get all that hard dried frosting. And they won’t care that the thing looks like it escaped from the mobile gingerbread home park pages of Dwell magazine. Or something.
One tip for the truly crafty: Sugar Cubes. (No I am not that smart. My friend Jen A. told me about it.) Brick-and-mortar construction. The third little pig would be proud. Looks nice. Tons of fun.
speaking of children’s Christmas events . . .
Dr. Boli exceeds himself. Never was there more truth in advertising.
’tis the season to be cranky
Simcha says what needs to be said. (Again. It needs be said every year.)
And so I leave off my rant about a certain otherwise excellent homeschooling magazine that devoted a disproportionate number of pages to Advent Crafts. No. No. Just say no. Advent is for catching up on your math and maybe chopping up a lot of firewood. My goodness are families really sitting around trying to think up one.more.thing. that must be done in order to properly mark the season??
I think not.
Then again, if you have a lot of nervous energy you need to work off, crocheting O-antiphon doilies and making a special set of Jesse Tree shaped cookies is no doubt better than chain-smoking and raiding the eggnog ahead of schedule. So I condemn you not, Craft People.
You are crazy, yes. But then again I’ve got Bethlehem built in my living room (getting crowded now that the seven dwarves have rented out rooms — you begin to see why Joseph should have hit the road sooner), and no doubt some poor reader will feel inadequate for want of their very own pseudo-medieval Playmobil version of Herod’s fortress. With kangaroos.
I suppose we chalk it up to man’s need for penance? For lack of a strict orthodox-style fast, we punish ourselves with craft guilt? One more week of Advent, and then we can all switch gears and complain about people who celebrate Christmas for the wrong number of days.
Happy Holidays.
holy catechesis, batman
So the truth is, the number 1 thing I’m going to steal from Christian LeBlanc’s religious-ed snapshots is the line “Stop guessing like monkeys and think!” But there’s good info, too, about you know, the bible and saints and religion and stuff. Plus how to use the gross-out factor to keep your 6th graders captivated. Did I say that out loud? What I meant was, how to use Q&A within a lecture format, to help the kids pay attention and think through the material, and cover lots of details without everyone getting lost.
(I would never, ever, pick a saint to cover in class just because she was depicted with her eyeballs on a platter. That would only be a coincidence. Since her feast day came round. Then, you know, it would be practically an obligation. If I were teaching a room full of 12-year-old boys.)
a submission submission, submitted to you
Bearing posts a really good response from Willa at Quotidian Moments on the whole Ephesians 5 discussion started by Darwin. Rather than just write “wow, good post” in B’s combox (which will only get stuck in her spambox anyway — that’s what happens), I send you there directly. Because wow. Good post.
