Three weeks worth of songs - done!
Three weeks worth of bulletins - done!
The Wigwam notified of our impending departure - done!
Shopping for more camping gear - done!
Sermon prep - well under way.
I bought a cheap folding knife but I don't have any way to get it out of the package. If only I had a knife.
Billionaire conversation:
Bill Gates: "Remember when we were poor?"
Steve Jobs: "No."
Bill Gates: "Me neither."
Steve Jobs: "Let's flip a coin."
Bill Gates: "A what?"
Al's appetite continues to deteriorate. He should be eating 4 cups of food per day, 2 in the morning and 2 in the evening. Unless he digs in real soon he will have eaten less than a cup all day. He continues to lose muscle mass and only has the energy to lay down all day. Josh & Aubri are going to watch him while we're gone on our camping trip and I'm concerned he'll get critical while we're gone. The initial course of treatment is 90 days and we're only about halfway through that. Doesn't look good and that makes me sad.
The AZ illegal immigrant bill goes into effect Thursday. Phoenix is bracing for large demonstrations and everybody is waiting to see what the Federal Judge here decides re. the Feds request that she block its implementation.
Sunday's sermon is already weighing on my brain. Sometimes (often?) the delivery is as important is the content. That is, saying the right thing in the wrong way, with poor and clumsy delivery, blunts the power of the content.
In my brain the last couple of days, prompted by this week's TIME cover story about the "wasted time" of summer vacation when kids could better be in school learning:
We are at risk of teaching kids all about biology and nothing about life, all about math and nothing about what counts.
Now, if I could just come up with 100 more clever sentences I'd have a speech.
Todd gave me a short book about golf, but that's really about something much more important. (It will give you pause.) If you're a golfer I heartily recommend, "Golf's Sacred Journey" by Dr. David L. Cook. You'll find it online. It's short, a very quick read, but I promise you'll be engrossed.
One of the worthwhile tips:
"Play the game in front of the ball, not behind it."
Translation: Don't let the shot you just hit - or miss-hit - determine what comes next.
Or, as the Apostle Paul put it, "Forgetting those things which are behind I press toward the mark...."
3 comments:
...all about vocabulary, but nothing truly meaningful.
...all about geography, but never a clue as to where they're headed.
Does that help? ; )
all about human anatomy and physiology, but no guts.
all about physics, but no momentum.
I've created a monster.
Two monsters!
Preach it, sistahs!
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