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Tools for persons with sight and hearing disabilities
At Day Job, I get catalogs for tools for persons with various disabilities. No endorsement, but this one looks better than most, and might be useful for supplying church needs.
Plus, they sell bed- or pillow-shaking alarm clocks, which might be helpful if you rise at a different time than a bedmate.
LSS Products
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Watch and learn: Arlington Cemetery documentary
I watched a 2004 National Geographic Special on PBS tonight: Arlington: Field of Honor (WGBH Boston page). It is obviously on as a lead-up to Memorial Day and follows a day of funerals at Arlington National Cemetery, and outlines its history. Chances are you can still watch it if you get PBS, and it is [...]
Happy Ascension 2006
Today is Ascension Day, one of those smaller church holidays that the Universalists loved a little more than expected. Let me point you back to last year’s entry, which links to other entries, including one at Philocrites.
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More on posters and banners: learn to silk screen
A reprise of my exhortation to legible poster and banner manufacture. If you aren’t keen on hand lettering, how about silk screening?
No Media Kings has a primer.
Hattip: Lifehacker
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Ministers: get your face on your church website
Washington Metro — the main subway and bus provider — is really trying to shape up its public image and service following the retirement of the last director, best remembered locally for his golden parachute.
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Quakers or UUs: who develop “stayers” better?
There’s a “comment colloquy” brewing (or hiding) in a recent post about Quaker faith formation and how it does or does not promote life-long adherance. Take a look
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100 sq ft living in Hong Kong: can pictures cultivate empathy?
I have been long fascinated about people who manage to live in unusual or tiny dwellings. Where we live deeply shapes how we live, and to draw a biological metaphor, those who can or must live in extraordinary situations.
Michael Wolf made a photo exhibit called 100×100 depicting residents of (one of) Hong Kong’s oldest public [...]
BitB turns three
It has been three years, and nearly 1,400 entries on the path!
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Spotted at a DIG Pisky parish Eucharist
Hubby and I attended worship this morning at a nearby Episcopal church that can only be described as crunchy-liberal and Dipped In Gay.
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