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four arms better

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Some of my very best ideas come in the last hours of darkness as I awaken into the new day. This morning's really good idea seems to be a mix of my frustration yesterday when I had to carry a few too many items at once, and my current reading, which is the Second Edition of D B Hart's New Testament, his Introduction and his translation of the Gospel according to Mark.  I have a fun project in mind regarding Revelation, comparing lectionary passages from the NRSV(UE) that we use liturgically in church, and from Hart, but am not to that yet, still fooling with his Intro and Mark.  Intro, discussing his translations of Greek, Hart explains that his rendering of a word needs to be flexible, make sense, not come across to the reader as rigidly absurd. He makes an example of the word ἄ γγελος (angelos), which means one who brings tidings, news, and may be a human sent with a message or a celestial angel. He mentions John the Baptist as a messenger (angelos) and the angels (angelos) ...
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elder adventure

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\ We had the best day Monday! Did a couple of errands, bought a rotisserie chicken at Sam's, filled the gas tank of Linda's car, then headed for Culver's out on Tyndall Parkway in Callaway with our coupons. We'd never been to Culver's, wanted to try it but thought the only location was out at PCB on Back Beach Road near Breakfast Point.  However, we try to help the Bay High Million Dollar Band in season, and the Bay High Tornadoes football team, when they're having fundraisers, as is the case now. The football team's current campaign includes getting an enormous Culver's coupon sheet for a $25 donation. The coupon offers every imaginable kind of deal, lists the Callaway location as participating, and today we took our coupon and went for it.  We had crispy chicken sandwiches, fried onion rings, and small cokes at their dine-in room, which is spacious, clean, and nice. The staff were welcoming and helpful, brought our food to our table. Using another coup...
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eggs

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Don't believe I've mentioned it this year, but've been checking the osprey nest at Boulder County Fairgrounds in Longmont, Colorado. Nesting season is underway and the osprey couple have four eggs. Nature's best show of the cycle of life, repeated starting every spring, year after year, and going into August or September.  I've been watching this nest for, must be about fifteen years now, since before we moved from The Old Place to 7H. I think so but am not sure it's the same mom bird I started with, but there have been, I guess this is the third male bird. The first one I remember, the large company of watchers who converse online named him "Super Dad." One spring he didn't show up and was replaced by a younger male osprey whom the watchers called something like "dark legs" - - he lasted two or three years, then last spring or the spring before he didn't arrive and the current bird, a young male, moved in.  Osprey live with a great d...
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soul

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We, each of us, body, emotions, and intellect, evolve as we make our way through the Time of Life. My perfect sight is gone, to see clearly up close I have to wear eyeglasses. And my tongue, ninety year old taste buds are not as sharp as they once were, I'm not as into chocolate as a few years ago; the only dish that seems never to change for me is a tray of a dozen cold, salty oysters, my idea of Heaven might be sitting upstairs at Hunt's Oyster Bar and having one tray after another set down before me as the ages pass into eternity.  My hearing has evolved, when I retired from the Navy it was perfect, but I'm on my fifth pair of hearing aids, which I call "my ears," since 2001, and a joy of being hard of hearing is that if I don't appreciate the noises and other sounds around me all I have to do is turn "my ears" off and relax into the sound of silence.  Emotions: feelings change, my love for my grandmother was not the same as my fierce, almost obse...
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