Easter Monday Mumble Grumble

Thinking about a sweep of spring cleaning, what do I have cluttering the desktop of this MacBook? 


  • True Religion by Karl Barth 
  • The Idiot by Dostoyevsky, read it, why is it still here
  • NYT article “To Change the World, Change Man” by Michael Laitman, who wrote “Who Are You, People of Israel?”, read it, been on my desktop since July 2015 
  • books from C S Lewis The Chronicles of Narnia, “The Magician's Nephew,” “The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe,” “The Horse and His Boy” 
  • Geoffrey Chaucer’s The Canterbury Tales, full lot of it, read some of them
  • text of Our Town by Thornton Wilder
  • picture, 1949 Plymouth station wagon 
  • English translation of the letter scrap Morton Smith found with text of Secret Mark 
  • file with links to eight Leonard Cohen songs 
  • text of “Romans 3,” 
  • Stations of the Cross 
  • file containing fifteen old preached sermons 
  • book "Prince Caspian” from Narnia 
  • link to MarineTraffic/Global 
  • interliner Greek-English Septuagint 
  • Liturgical Calendar for Year A 
  • play script of Lazarus Laughed 
  • book Greek Tenses and Moods 
  • online blogpost titled “How can the genitive mean “in”?” 
  • advice column about the importance of distributing Small Assets so family survivors don’t get feelings hurt or fight about little things they hold dear from childhood 
  • link to GoComics 
  • file “Weller Pics” that stores dozens of pictures an old man holds dear 
  • long article about CHF 
  • “Week in Review” blogpost entitled “Peeking Inside the Mind of the Boy Dating Your Daughter,” where I recognized myself from sixty-five years ago 
  • 1930 Marquette by Buick brochure 
  • 1930 Viking by Oldsmobile brochure
  • picture of Kristen holding Lillie 
  • complete chart of the Russian alphabet 
  • file folder with links to various car catalogs 
  • text of Enriching Your Worship 
  • links to my +Time blog, Google, and my Facebook page. 

Time to clean up. Naanh, too much bother, just click "View" and make them all smaller.


No walk this morning, pastoral reasons, early officiating a service in the rector’s absence. 



What kind of ἀγάπη summons a hundred+mile drive clergy conference for Sunday afternoon and evening of Easter Day, Monday, and Tuesday morning of Easter Week, protected, much needed and deserved rest time and family time for exhausted clergy, not even going there, retired, otherwise as a grouchy old man I’d boycott!!

We had the best Easter, all my girls here plus Ray and Jeremy. We sliced and consumed part of a whole bone-in ham from Snake River Farms http://www.snakeriverfarms.com/kurobuta-pork.html and sent the rest home with various households. What's left here besides a still exhausted old man: bit of scrumptious ham, potato skins saved for me, some interestingly delicious lemon cake from Cahall's, rest of the egg casserole from Sunday breakfast, few bananas from Lillie's birthday party, one of which I just consumed with early cup of black coffee - - -  

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