So, two weeks ago, my computer melted – actually, just one of the USB port cables did, but the whole computer “died”. Luckily, one of my friends loaned me an old laptop, say “Hi!”
so I could at least get on-line to order some new computer parts and check a few blogs. But for some reason, this snarky little computer wouldn’t even let me view my blog, much less post to it. I have my “new” old computer back finally, so I thought I’d catch you up on what you missed during the down time.
We were visited by royalty (happens frequently), this time by the Queen of (and I kid you not) “Chenaeiouyrda” [that’s pronounced chi-na-ra, sort of]
Went to the local Rescue Squad open house and got to pretend we had broken our leg at a football game!
Got dressed up to go worship and eat a fantastic meal
at the local Hindu temple.
Celebrated a birthday – OMG Faith is 12!!
(and, yes, that IS a chemistry set she’s so excited to receive;
apparently my “nerd gene” is dominant – YES!!!!!)
Had a homemade brownie & lemonade stand
…and ate some profits
…and donated a snack to the renovation efforts at a
neighborhood arts camp.
FINALLY cleaned some space in the garage to unleash our creative spirit.
I missed Mrs. G’s open house (boo hoo), though I did bake some bread for the event (actually cheated and bought “par-baked” bread from Whole Foods and just gave it the last 12 minutes of baking for crispiness).
Had a great time eating watermelon at the Race Unity Picnic.
Went to an AMAZING gospel choir concert and got spiritually refreshed (I’m still floating!)
Had a momenatry lapse of sanity and adopted two guinea pigs – whaaaa!!
Hope you’re having a fantastic summer too!!
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“The primary task of the soul will always be
to investigate reality,
to live in accordance with the truths
of which it becomes persuaded
and to accord full respect to the efforts
of others to do the same.”* Universal House of Justice
(world governing body of the
Bahá’ís)
in it’s 2002
Letter to the World’s Religious Leaders
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Hey
Mrs. G, look what I went out and bought today!!
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Happy 4th of July!!
Where in the world do you wear sweaters on the 4th, you may ask?!
ALASKA!! of course
(recognize the glasses,
Mrs. G?!!)
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“I don’t know what I may seem to the world,” he said before he died,
“but, as to myself, I seem to have been only like a boy playing on the sea-shore, and diverting myself in now and then finding a smoother pebble or a prettier shell than ordinary, whilst the great ocean of truth lay all undiscovered before me.” An evocative simile, much quoted in the centuries that followed, but [Isaac] Newton never played at the seashore, boy or man. Born in a remote country village, the son of an illiterate farmer, he lived in an island nation and explained how the moon and sun tug at the seas to create tides, but he probably never set eyes on the ocean. He understood the sea by abstraction and computation.
extract from Isaac Newton by James Gleick
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My computer “melted” Sat. night!! I’m borrowing a friend’s laptop to pay our bills and order the replacement parts for the computer – other than that, I won’t be on-line much this week. I’ll catch up with everyone’s blogs this weekend (I hope).
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YEAH!! Someone got a bang-ectomy yesterday. And can someone tell me why it is
so difficult to cut a simple straight line across a forehead?
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Today I earned my keep by pruning the overgrown
“bush”(?!) on the corner of our deck.
I also learned that I am, in fact, my father’s daughter
(pile 2 of clippings – yes, I got a little carried away;
apparently, it’s genetic)
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I’ve been contemplating lately the nature of these virtual relationships we develop through blogging. Foolery mentioned her awkwardness over referring to these relationships as “friends” when she’s with the friends/family she actually physically interacts with – and I can relate to that. I’ve gone through all sorts of linguistic gymnastics to share the wit and wisdom I gain from reading other blogs. So why is that?!!
Being a highly social extrovert, I’m friendly with everyone I meet; add “Southern” into the mix, and you get someone who’s not afraid to strike up conversations with strangers at the store or on the street. But, whenever I meet a new friend, someone who becomes more than just a casual acquaintance, there’s a feeling I get — we “connect”, you might even call it a form of “attraction”. What’s interesting to me is that I can get the same feeling from even just a few “comment volleys” with fellow bloggers. Once, I simply read a comment on, my friend, Mrs. G’s blog, read the commenter’s description of herself on her blog, and just felt like I’d found a long lost sister. [Really!! I even hesitated before typing “sister”, but that’s actually how I felt.]
Reflecting on this phenomenon, I realize that it affirms my faith in God. I’m what you might label an agnostic, who is highly religious. Words are immensely inadequate to describe my (or anyone’s) spirituality, but I’ll try. I mellowed from full-blown, in-your-face atheism [not all atheists are like that, but I sure was] to agnosticism in my mid-20’s, then had what many would call a “born again” experience. I made it through my “fundamentalistic” phase and now find myself joyously contemplating complex questions and doubts in the protection of an abiding certitude.
Back to “blog friends” (hasn’t someone coined a cute word for that yet?! I mean, other than Sarah). This ability to connect that transcends our physical reality (we utilize none of our physical senses, unless someone posts a photo or video) surely indicates that there is more to the human reality than just our physical being – we are spiritual beings as well. And that’s the place where we connect on-line, no matter what we call ourselves.
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“It is the perfection of God’s works that they are all done with the greatest simplicity. He is the God of
order and not of confusion.” also
“Truth is ever to be found in simplicity, and not in the multiplicity and confusion of things.”Sir Isaac Newton
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(and, yes, that IS a chemistry set she’s so excited to receive;
