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Happy Monday

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With memories still salivating about a recent meatloaf and its gift of meatloaf sandwiches, Saturday we prepared, and yesterday after church we baked and enjoyed for Sunday Dinner, a meatloaf, a perennial favorite in these parts. So, my anticipation for breakfast this morning was a meatloaf sandwich, whole wheat bread, mayonnaise.  Thinking, though, about my life's mission these days, to stay out of the hospital, as I opened the fridge for my sandwich ingredients, I spied a carton of yogurt, which triggered the thought that I googled: which is a better breakfast for a 91 year old white male with CHF, yogurt or a meatloaf sandwich? The answer is quite disappointing, but I heeded it. The meatloaf sandwich will have to wait for noon dinner.  The yogurt is tasty, though, with a heaping spoonful of Manuka honey from New Zealand added and stirred into it.  Try it, Sam I Am, you may like it, Sam I Am. ++++++++ This coming Sunday, November 1st, is All Saints Day, one of the seven...
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Saturday

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Saturday morning breakfast, the last sips of my morning mug of hot & black, and a flounder sandwich. Linda's leftover that she saved for me. Yesterday after Pruitt we went to Tarpon Dock and had the whole (less head) fried flounder, very good, and they do an artist's work in presentation, I should've taken a picture but didn't.  We sat outside in an idyllic Friday afternoon, watching bridge traffic and people walking past.  The cost of eating there is about half the cost of eating at Hunt's, which belongs to the same folks.  Anyway, a nice breakfast. White flounder meat, picked through to get all the bones out, mayo on Pepperidge Farm very thin whole wheat bread, the flounder meat laid on, and a shake shake shake of NoSalt (my potassium grains). Quite good, an unusual treat, IDK, might be my first flounder sandwich ever.  +++++++++ Entertainment this morning, watched a video interview, a retired woman of many talents who was the Chief of Disguise for the CIA. La...
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From Fr Richard

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This from Fr Richard's site seems more important than anything I might think, write, or say this morning. T91     Empire and Christianity New Cornerstones  Friday, October 23, 2026 READ ON CAC.ORG     Joanna Arellano-Gonzalez, cofounder of the Coalition for Spiritual & Public Leadership, reflects on the influence of empire thinking:   John Dominic Crossan, in  God and Empire , names the four cornerstones of empire as political, economic, military, and ideological power. While the first three subject marginalized people to crushing realities, ideological power is the most nefarious. It shapes, controls, and distorts the minds and spirits of both oppressor and oppressed….   We have been indoctrinated by the forces the American Empire rests upon—taught to value profit over people and individualism over interdependence. Embodying these values leads to greater disembodiment of God’s love. Our Inner Empire must be dismantled and rebuilt so we can respond...
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Wednesday mixed bag

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This is the report I promised if it turned out well, and it's better than well, it's excellent. Not outstanding, but excellent. No picture because it's already half eaten, but I think it's the first pie I ever made in my life.  Baked strawberry pie. Following a recipe found on line, it turned out well. A bit too sweet, so if I make another one I'll cut the sugar in half as a friend does when baking desserts. Also, it was more a strawberry jam pie because I cooked the strawberries too long in the saucepan before pouring them into the pie crust for the trip to the oven, so nobody gets a whole strawberry, but I've got it down now for next Time if there is one. Strawberry pie with hot & black for my protein breakfast, eh? Starting my Wednesday with a sugar high. Mox nix mir, we're having smash burgers for noon dinner, with spinach soufflé. On my burger sans bun I'll have either Swiss cheese or that crumbly Leister red cheese from England. There's a h...
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just reminiscing a bit

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Today is Tuesday and my last blogpost was Friday. Why? IDK, I thought I'd written on Sunday about one of the lectionary readings, but not so, there's not even an unpublished draft up. We voted yesterday, Vote Early! The pollsters' certainty of a Democrat sweep is absurd, the pollsters have made fools of themselves in recent years but they keep at it. As well, their predictions cause their "winners" to relax and stay home while flushing their "losers" out to vote. CFB is interesting at the moment, though I wonder why Auburn fired X Atkins. My teams are Go Gators!! and Go Blue!! Also Go Noles! while a granddaughter is still in school there. She's a senior at FSU, played trumpet with the Marching Chiefs her first two years and I have an FSU ball cap. Mind, my love for FSU football does not hold over the Thanksgiving Weekend.  Who else do we cheer? Penn State - - we lived in Harrisburg eight years back in the seventies and eighties when Joe Paterno was t...
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TG it's Friday

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Developments here have been ongoing without pause recently. Saturday morning as the hurricane was still blowing, our HOA team showed up to look at our flood damage - - water coming down the inside of the side wall and gushing up into 7h through the vinyl tile flooring we had installed after Hurricane Michael in place of the ruined wood flooring - - and within an hour a contractor arrived to assess, then bring up dehumidifier, dryer, air blowers as a step toward less damage and preventing mold from getting started.  The noise from the drying equipment has been deafening, but tolerable thanks to our deafness and therefore ability to turn off our hearing aids. Yesterday the contractor took measurements, determined that all water was dried away, and removed the equipment. As they say, now the silence here is deafening, but we can get used to it. Looks like the flooring is dry and we don't have to worry about mold or replacing the flooring, TGIF. Simultaneously, the HOA has co...
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One Thessalonians

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This coming Sunday we begin a several-weeks reading through First Thessalonians. It's fascinating, for one because, being Paul's earliest extant writing, it shows his soteriology at least early in his ministry.  Paul was an apocalypticist who believed the End of Days was near when God would send the Son of Man (Daniel 7) to overthrow earthly powers and establish the Kingdom of God on Earth.  This would be heralded by the General Resurrection with the Second Coming of Christ as that Son of Man, when all dead and living (Paul expected to be among the living, it was that imminent) would be raised and lifted into the clouds to meet Christ for judgment.  Those under the umbrella of the faith of Christ, and whose lives passed judgment, would be saved into the new Kingdom of God on Earth, with Christ the Son of Man as God's regent. The letter that we call First Thessalonians was meant to be read to its intended audience (members of the church in Thessalonica that Paul had founde...
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