Starting off 2026 with…

So what do you think. Falling star? Airplane? There’s so much falling and flying around that I give up trying to guess. I was looking at my camera the whole time so I never actually saw it. Also, this was two hours after sunset. It always amazes me how much light there still is in the night sky.

I also heard that the judge ruled that the Pope is Catholic.

Firelei Baez @ Des Moines Art Center

I believe this painting is called “Jesus Throwing Shade.”

I recently heard someone say, "a spread of cattle." It caught me off guard since I hadn't heard that phrase in so long. It was delightful.

Retirement Goals

In Defense of Pint and Pipe Smoking and drinking carry known risks. Here’s why I haven’t given them up.

“A good life is not merely one indefinitely extended through meticulous attention to bodily wellness, but one spent in community and with joy.” @malcolmguite.bsky.social

Have you ever been to Des Moines, IA?

When I was there as a grad student (87-90), they officially renamed the school to include "The." So, I would assume so.

With friends like that...

Bryan Chapell Diagnoses Our Generational Crisis in the Church Collin Hansen and Bryan Chapell address the generational divide in the church, urging theological unity, godly leadership, and compassion to bridge cultural and political differences.

Oh my. This interview might end Dr. Chapell's career as our Stated Clerk.

www.thegospelcoalition.org/podcasts/gos...

In which Georgia O’Keefe isn’t sure the men fully understood.

😂

My bladder would like to ask a question.

Conversation with my daughter who attends an ACNA church with her husband in Madison.

You might want to hold off for a few more minutes.

Blood Moon 2015

Tylenol PM says it is “non habit forming.” Challenge accepted.

Playground football in the 4th grade was glorious!

EYE WAS MINDING MY BUSINESS… getting my steps in… and all of a sudden

Don't be that person who texts someone innocently just to get a reply, then follows that up with a text the other person doesn't want to deal with.

“The Spy Who Claimed My Package Was Delivered”

Sad to see racist trolls and some of the dimmer lights in the PCA going after Irwin Ince.

Does anyone else think that photo makes the plane look like the head of a dragon?

He’s trolling.

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Back from Costco with much wine.

I was always angry, on some level, that American devotees of Balthasar, Ratzinger, Henri de Lubac, that crew, rolled over for the American right. But this whole concentration camps thing, the end of USAID, a constitutional crisis, has me furious in new ways as those same people continue to roll over