I was showering the other day and noticed on the shampoo bottle the encouragement to turn off the water while soaping. I got to thinking about how ridiculous this was. Even in America, your hot water heater may not always get you the water exactly as you want it, and many showers have a separate… Continue reading Showering
Author: Benjamin
All shoe sizes huh?
I wear size 14.
The Silk Roads
The Silk Roads is an entirely fascinating book. It’s extremely readable and covers a huge amount of time (a few hundred B.C. to today) from the perspective of the region of the world between the Mediterranean and the Pacific (mostly focused in Iran and the -stans). Fun and eye-opening, it makes me far more interested… Continue reading The Silk Roads
Kisses
Today I ran out to take out the trash and, after getting my shoes out for me, Mira stopped me before I could leave & patted her check. Apparently I had to give her a kiss… and then I tried to leave again & she said “ut-oh” and pointed to Shanna. ?
Happy new year!
And Mira slept right through the war zone we call new year’s here again. Huzzah for year round firework sleep training. 🙂 Also watching from the top floor of our building was lots of fun, only had to run inside ten mins after midnight to avoid explosions. 😀
White Thanksgiving
Actually no snow stuck but it’s not getting above freezing today and we got some flakes. Oh yeah, we’re celebrating today, I guess it’s not really a white Thanksgiving.
Night sky
The Caucasus are darkish.
A Third Party Worth a Look
Shanna says I’m not allowed to make our blog a political blog, so I’ll try to make this my only one, but there’s a lot of time between now and November. I just want to take a moment to share about a third party I’ve recently discovered that I think is worth serious consideration for… Continue reading A Third Party Worth a Look
Jayber Crow – Wendell Berry
Jayber Crow is excellent and captivating. Don’t read if you live away from friends & family where you grew up, it will make you terribly homesick and long for a simple life in which people had sensible jobs that needed to get done. Sometimes fun, sometimes heart-wrenching story about the life of the Port William… Continue reading Jayber Crow – Wendell Berry
What Matters?: Economics for a Renewed Commonwealth – Wendell Berry
So Wendell probably wouldn’t approve of my reading of his books on Kindle, but what can you do? What Matters? is a decent collection of essays about stewardship of the earth, community, people, and so forth. I should have noted the better ones more carefully as I read but to the best of my recollection… Continue reading What Matters?: Economics for a Renewed Commonwealth – Wendell Berry
Prosperity: when your animals eat well
And he will give rain for the seed with which you sow the ground, and bread, the produce of the ground, which will be rich and plenteous. In that day your livestock will graze in large pastures, and the oxen and the donkeys that work the ground will eat seasoned fodder, which has been winnowed… Continue reading Prosperity: when your animals eat well
Psalm 68:32-35
O kingdoms of the earth, sing to God; sing praises to the Lord, to him who rides in the heavens, the ancient heavens; behold, he sends out his voice, his mighty voice. Ascribe power to God, whose majesty is over Israel, and whose power is in the skies. Awesome is God from his sanctuary; the… Continue reading Psalm 68:32-35
Nope, still Protestant, very Protestant
Since I live in an Orthodox country and have long found myself drawn to high churchy things I visited services here in English and after the service got to chat with some of the westerners who had become Orthodox. They were quite eager to share their conversion to Orthodoxy and recommended Ware’s The Orthodox Church . I was… Continue reading Nope, still Protestant, very Protestant
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