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Daylight wasting time.
Stared at this little wheel most of Thursday. Learning patience.
Maybe I can get an hour back this weekend.
Speaking of Daylight Savings Time: What will you do with your extra hour this weekend? (Of course the additional hour gets inserted at 2 AM, but don’t let that hold you back.)
Inferiority complex.
-An advertisement in the Ottawa Citizen, January 7, 1936
“An Inferiority Complex is a disturbance in the Subconscious Mind which manifests itself in self-consciousness and lack of confidence….[t]hese are symptoms of ‘something wrong’ within your personality…”
[Source: Questionable Advice]
My generation is not so sophisticated.
Cleaning Josiah’s squirrel den.
Tonight Kari asked our son, “Dutch, what did you learn tonight in kids’ church?”
Dutch: “About King Josiah.”
Kari: “What did you learn about Josiah?”
Dutch: “They cleaned out his kingdom.” (palace)
Kari: “Oh. What did they find when they cleaned it out.”
Dutch: “Squirrels!”
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Those would be scrolls my son.
They found the scrolls of God’s words, lost for generations, and now theirs to renew their knowledge and love for Him in true worship.
- Read the whole story in 2nd Kings 22.
We crossed paths with this squirrel in the park next to Buckingham Palace in London
Flying football.
Alaska Air commercial featuring Portland Timbers head coach John Spencer:
http://www.youtube-nocookie.com/v/dhlhV0iCsgM?version=3&hl=en_US&rel=0
Awesome.
Here in the States we call this game “soccer,” and instead call “football” a game that only involves using one’s feet to kick in the margins of the game: to begin halves (kickoffs), when you’ve given up your turn (to punt), want to grab a few points (field goal), or just scored (point-after-try and then another kickoff). All of the kicking in football happens in “special teams.” In professional American Football (the NFL) those teams practice separately, have special coaching staffs, and run their own special plays. It’s kind of an oddity. Football fans like to crack jokes about “soccer” — that the game is boring, there’s not enough scoring, and the game is too long. In reality it is our “football” that is a little bit silly; consider there are only about 11 minutes of game action in an NFL game. A whole lot of grown men standing around; and then running into each other.
Even over here in little America there are avid football fans. (And by “football” I mean “soccer,” which is the true football). Listen as Portland Timbers fans all join in together for a chant: “You Cannot Stop Us … We Are The Rose City”:
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Try this trust fall for yourself.
You like to trust in yourself. How’s that going for you?
Jesus entered the world and said, “The time is fulfilled, and the kingdom of God is at hand; repent and believe in the gospel” (Mark 1:15).
He invited us to quit trusting in ourselves to rescue ourselves and make us right with God. He did all the work. That’s the good news (gospel). The best trust fall exercise ever.
Ye Employe of the Month.
This month let’s all be the best employe our companies have. (That’s unless you’re an editor, or other knowledge worker, in which case one should probably spell ’employee’ correctly.)
The Bunsen Burner: remember it from chemistry class?
Yesterday marked Robert Bunsen’s 200th birthday.
The Google Doodle today commemorates the man behind the Bunsen Burner (today for some reason, and not yesterday, his birthday):
Bunsen’s best work came in the 1860s, when he discovered two new elements. Cesium — atomic number 55 — now plays an essential role in atomic clocks. Rubidium — atomic number 35 — is one of the ways to create purple fireworks. Both elements live on the far left side of the periodic table. His team named them after the Latin words caesius (sky blue) and rubidus (dark red). [Source: CSM]
See the animated doodle in action:
Bunsen made becoming a high school chemistry teacher cool. (Mine, Mr. Mohl, would blow stuff up every day, with a continual flow of natural gas running through the burner.)
Our son is 4. About time for The Talk.
Whatever it takes …
“It wasn’t this wealth of information, just smacking me in the face. My parents didn’t have to deal with this.”
[HT: Joel Dombrow]
All those turtles and our competitive nature.
Last week we were able to see huge sea turtles and enjoy sunshine on a certain Hawaiian island. It was amazing. Plus, it was a place to refresh and renew as a family in our deepening relationships with one another and under Jesus as our Lord and Savior. We felt little impulse to prove ourselves or to pretend we were something better or different than who we are. We could rest and play and reflect on the past year with gratitude.
When I returned to public life today I was reminded of my own tendency to be like this:
