Once a Month Blogger
Well, at this rate, I'll post an entry every month or so.
I love reading Duoteam's blog. I love it when the Minnosotans get polical! (And yes, Kettle chips are out of this world.)
The news around here is that our house goes on the market tomorrow. Yup, our cute little bungalow will be for sale. It's a sad feeling, owning a house for a while, and then getting ready to sell it. Sorta like taking "Old Yeller" out to the shed.
But the house is looking great. Flowers everywhere. Painted rooms. Replaced light fixtures. The smell of fresh baked cookies everywhere. Ah yes, the fresh baked cookies!
In the midst of all these house prep, I've found time to avoid writing papers and read some good books. If you're looking for good books to read, you might check out Animal Dreams by Barbara Kingsolver or the Schopenhauer Cure by Irvin Yalom. Yalom is a fantastic writer. So is Kingsolver, for that matter.
As far as the weather, spring is here - as you can see from the blooming flox, one of my favorite flowers.
Tulips and daffodils and all sorts of other things are coming up, too. This is one of my favorite times of year, but it's been super dry and almost too warm.
I've been reading up on global warming, and basically, we're in some major trouble. If we keep up with business as usual, we'll be looking at the ocean in our backyard, (or a sort of hell) or maybe that will happen anyway. I think this is the fundamental issue of our lifetimes. Yes, we still have to get our minds around institutional racism (Crash offers a facinating look at the complexity of race/racism, class, and gender...) and post-colonial colonialism, and gender inequality and all that, but now much of that will matter if we don't have an inhabitable planet?
That's my rant. And the real question, for me, is how will I address this in my ministry? The faith community, for the most part, is silent on this issue, and yet I think that people of faith can and should speak to this issue.
And now for something upbeat: photos -
Here's a great picture of my dad in our newly painted kitchen, from a couple of w
eeks ago:
And finally, it's good to focus on some of the good things in life, like chilling in the back yard with a book:
Until April, JMS.
I love reading Duoteam's blog. I love it when the Minnosotans get polical! (And yes, Kettle chips are out of this world.)
The news around here is that our house goes on the market tomorrow. Yup, our cute little bungalow will be for sale. It's a sad feeling, owning a house for a while, and then getting ready to sell it. Sorta like taking "Old Yeller" out to the shed.
But the house is looking great. Flowers everywhere. Painted rooms. Replaced light fixtures. The smell of fresh baked cookies everywhere. Ah yes, the fresh baked cookies!
In the midst of all these house prep, I've found time to avoid writing papers and read some good books. If you're looking for good books to read, you might check out Animal Dreams by Barbara Kingsolver or the Schopenhauer Cure by Irvin Yalom. Yalom is a fantastic writer. So is Kingsolver, for that matter.
As far as the weather, spring is here - as you can see from the blooming flox, one of my favorite flowers.
Tulips and daffodils and all sorts of other things are coming up, too. This is one of my favorite times of year, but it's been super dry and almost too warm.I've been reading up on global warming, and basically, we're in some major trouble. If we keep up with business as usual, we'll be looking at the ocean in our backyard, (or a sort of hell) or maybe that will happen anyway. I think this is the fundamental issue of our lifetimes. Yes, we still have to get our minds around institutional racism (Crash offers a facinating look at the complexity of race/racism, class, and gender...) and post-colonial colonialism, and gender inequality and all that, but now much of that will matter if we don't have an inhabitable planet?
That's my rant. And the real question, for me, is how will I address this in my ministry? The faith community, for the most part, is silent on this issue, and yet I think that people of faith can and should speak to this issue.
And now for something upbeat: photos -
Here's a great picture of my dad in our newly painted kitchen, from a couple of w
eeks ago:And finally, it's good to focus on some of the good things in life, like chilling in the back yard with a book:
Until April, JMS.
posted by Justin Schroeder at 6:02 PM
3 Comments:
Yeah, we thought spring had sprung for us too - until today! We just got about 8 inches (at least) of snow dumped on the city overnight, and despite being a city that can function through most storms it's kind of shut down. It's such a wet snow that trees snapped and power is out for thousands of people (not us, luckily) and the roads are icing up as fast as they can plow.
... so spring will have to wait. :) But congrats on the house being on the market, it sounds like you've done a great job of preparing it for showing.
And I agree on the global warming. Big trouble.
Yay! House on the market = one step closer to moving here! It is so hard to comprehend that you have flowers right now (for reasons Nate explained). Great article on global warming, and sooooo very frightening. And so frustrating that scientists really have been sure about this for so long but it's just starting (maybe) to become more accepted as reality now!
J - So, is your house posted online somewhere? I bet you are escited and anxious too. It sounds like you did a great job fixing it up. what did you do with the electric outlet? Spring is a bit slower here, but it's on the way. Birds are singing and stuff is budding out. Love you.
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