Categorizing Things is Overrated

  • Sacrifice of Thanks

    I will offer you the sacrifice of thanksgiving* and call upon the Name of the LORD. Psalm 116:15. This Psalm excerpt was included in my Divine Hours morning prayer today. The phrasing “sacrifice…

  • Twenty-Twenty-Two

    What punishments of God are not gifts? From my vantage point on the couch I can see the clouds moving swiftly outside – “scudding” I would say, if I were writing a novel.…

  • 2021 Recap!

    As is my wont, I shall check in on the resolutions I made at the end of 2020. TBH I sort of forgot that I even made any, given the circumstances, so whether…

  • Christmas Math

    Christmas is coming, the goose is getting fat Please put a penny in the old man's hat If you haven't got a penny then a haypenny will do If you haven't got a…

  • Music City and the desert

    I flew from NOLA to Nashville on Monday, November 22 for a week of Thanksgiving cheer, and then flew to Arizona on Sunday November 28 for work. I just got back yesterday –…