Not much blogging in this quarter: I moved to WordPress, Hubby and I moved apartments and we got broadband, all of which took a toll. And a lot of what did go on was transcribed Universalist texts, which would be better reviewed later.
The Olympic tie-in
Sunday, August 15th, 2004
I know the canonical explanation of the flaming [...]
Dan Harper challenged me — I forget if it was on his blog or mine — to name some options to protesting, since I think that most public protest today is ineffective, self-aggrandizing or both.
I mentioned this to John Wonderlich — one of my terribly clever office mates and Program Director of the Open [...]
Lots of blogging about prayer from this period, in large part because I had a parallel blog, now retired, called Collect Call. Those posts are now integrated into this blog.
A seat of one’s own?
Wednesday, April 7th, 2004
The church I served in Georgia was robbed once. A life-long church member identified the theft on a Sunday [...]
There’s a bit of a dust-up at Peacebang about the tactics of the Association Sunday fundraisers and (to my mind) the more important piece about financial transparency. (To be fair faust at The Socinian asked the vital questions last year.) More important still is if these large efforts are more about consolidating power, resources and [...]
I saw the Washington Post headline for a series on the world food crisis — the first article, “Where Every Meal Is a Sacrifice” — on the way home tonight. The video, about two families in Mauritania trying to cope on the edge of a food disaster, left me in dread and asking “What would [...]
Not my best writing — lots of UUA certification live-blogging — but then again early 2004 was a pretty crummy time for me. I’ve looked at forming a new church, and as far as I’m concerned today, am glad I didn’t. Still, the project meant there were more enduring posts as the quarter went along.
Unitarian [...]
Yesterday I went to the Capital City Market (a.k.a. the Florida [Avenue] Market) on a tour by Richard Layman, Ken Firestone and Elise Bernard on a tour sponsored by Cultural Tourism DC. (I’m the fifth figure from the left — brown polo shirt and jeans — in this photo.) This is a wholesale market with [...]
“The Dog” has a bad reputation of being the intercity tranportation mode of last resort. That’s a shame. Many countries enjoy inexpensive, efficient (if not fancy) bus transportation. And that’s an efficient use of depleting petroleum.
And oil jumped above $120 a barrel on Friday.
But Greyhound’s service stinks. Hubby was shocked that you didn’t get a [...]
I’m reading two works in tandom: Clay Shirky’s Here Comes Everybody: The Power of Organizing without Organizations (you might have seen him on The Colbert Report earlier this month) and Yochai Benkler’s “Coase’s Penguin, or Linux and the Nature of the Firm” (The Yale Law Journal; full texts available through link). Both concern technology-empowered participation [...]
This period included the longest break in blogging I’ve ever taken: not from Hubby’s and my honeymoon but from the final meltdown in my last pastorate. Not good days, but there are a few posts worth recalling.
Hymn list I
Thursday, October 16th, 2003
In the extended entry I’ve placed my first list of useful hymns, culled from [...]
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