Are the men in the room with us right now

(Next year, paint the wick with clear nail polish. Goes up instantly)

When I tell you it’s genuinely changed my life this year. I always thought it was just “expensive pee pills.”

I think a lot of problems could be fixed or at least improved with a multivitamin bc deficiencies, turns out, can show up in weird ways! Like my migrating joint pain that I kid you not almost fully resolved w vitamin d. I wish doctors could better screen and consult in diet-adjacent areas like that

Focus friend app! Totally free and doesn’t collect any data. Made by @hankgreen.bsky.social. I tell myself I only have to read for 20 min. I can keep going after if I want to, but I have to at least do 20 min undistracted

I’m also a non fiction girlie but maybe the trick is start with something that’s just way fun. Fun and not “good for you to read.” Tress or Yumi and the Nightpainter by Brandon Sanderson. The Thursday Murder club. Anything by Christopher Moore.

Genius.

42. Pied-billed grebe (lifer!)
43. Ruby-crowned kinglet *
44. Killdeer
45. Cedar Waxwing *
46. Brown-headed cowbird * 😠
47. Red-shouldered hawk
48. Blue-gray gnatcatcher!
49. Northern harrier (lifer!)
50. Turkey vulture
51. Anhinga!
52. Purple martin!

Has there been any investigative reporting into why our area is seeing so many condo/apartment fires over the last year?

I know I’m a grump. We’re just doing what we were taught was important but y’all we might be taking the whole non-violent communication thing too far

Very on brand for a river delta too. Really gotta hand it to em

I would like to ban the word “invited” from all church communications.

If it’s not a party, don’t “invite” me just tell me bro

My most fluent dog sighed and laid back down so uh, I guess he’s pro-ambulance now. Will be taking advice on how to tell him about insurance companies next.

We don’t have the talking dog buttons in our house but I still find myself talking to the dogs like we do have them.

Which means we just had the conversation, “oh yeah, you heard big bump sound. It’s ok. That’s uh…car for… ouch people. Not the mailman. Ouch people car is good.”

Also WILD that my man was basically only ever an associate, three times! And was elected by the HOB straight to the episcopate

Screenshot from Wikipedia of Charles Henry Brent with highlighted, “Brent reflected that the lessons he learned from the Cowley Fathers were "so sound and inspiring that I could covet it for every young priest." More specifically, he said that the "daily meditation was a severe and joyous task." Meditating on "the love of Jesus Christ, the application to modern life of principles by which He lived, and the overwhelming importance of the unseen, were instilled into my being in a manner and to a degree from which there is, thirty-five years later, no escape."[23]

Friday in the life of the church we remember a cool dude, Charles Henry Brent, architect of the modern chaplain corps and first missionary bishop of the Philippines. The LFF bio skims past his early ministry because he did *SO* much but I loved this bit from his Wikipedia ⚓️

What a good girl. Tell her I said pspsps

Bag of Wild Birds Unlimited “Bluebird Bugberry Blend” bird food

Ours go wild for this. I once had one o guess smell it from far off and try to land while I was still filling the bowl. We scared each other and I didn’t think a bluebird could glare but

broke: the Holy Spirit is a dove

woke: the Holy Spirit is one of the Persons of the Holy Trinity, and therefore only ever depicting it as a dove is not giving the Holy Spirit its due in the divine economy

bespoke: the Holy Spirit is any and every bird

I have a yard full of birds and the blue birds nest across the street, but every time one comes over for a visit it’s like I’ve gotten to see a tiny miracle

I can’t explain it but every blue bird feels like a blessing. 🐦

Type of birder that has this on quickdraw

I personally follow the example of them all

Jesus: wept.

Barnabas: encouraged.

Paul: glared.

⚓️ (acts 13:9)

Are you all keeping them in a fridge or cool? In water?

Well this was a week ago. It’s arrived up here now.

Ive never seen these before! Does polishing the brass or maybe a thin coat of poly help reduce the stickiness/friction where the wax is hardening?

Anyway support the arts, kids. This cost us only $80.

And honestly the point isn’t visitors. It’s promoting that there are safe bold Christians around who take Jesus seriously. Whether someone joins us or not, that’s good and important news to share, and good for the whole community.

Really proud of the ad I made for our local theater’s playbill. Maybe it will yield some website traffic or even a visitor or two, but a big effect has been the pride my folks have felt in it and the way *they’ve* shared it with their friends. ⚓️