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This Train: May 2013
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One journey, many tracks. Thursday, May 30, 2013. Down the telephonic rabbit hole. It just wasn't fair! Whose childhood phone looked like this? Little did I know that throughout my childhood there was a gateway to a magical world sitting right on the desk in the kitchen. Or, later, on my bedside table. I didn't need a wardrobe or a wizard. I just needed to pick up the phone. They called themselves phone phreaks, and they are the subject of a wonderful new book by Phil Lapsley called Exploding the Phone: ...
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This Train: January 2013
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One journey, many tracks. Thursday, January 3, 2013. This Train's Year in Books 2012. I've been suffering from writer's laryngitis lately. While outwardly be-bopping along in typical fashion, my blogging soul has gone temporarily voiceless for reasons that are hard to pinpoint and have been even harder to cure. Like laryngitis, I haven't exactly been sick (with writer's block or anything nearly as dramatic.) Just a little weary, a little wavering and more or less voiceless. That is going to change in 2013.
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This Train: June 2015
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One journey, many tracks. Thursday, June 11, 2015. So, my mom died, and this is the first thing I've written since. In September 2013, my mom was diagnosed with Stage IV lung cancer, a recoccurence of the cancer that was removed from her lung in April 2009. On January 24, 2014, my mom died at the Zen Hospice Project in San Francisco. I wrote this in September 2014, and it is the first thing I've written since her illness. At least the Safeway Club Card gives something back, unlike the piles of newsletter...
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This Train: March 2012
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One journey, many tracks. Sunday, March 25, 2012. Loving Lady Bird's legacy. This year the welcome spring rain in Austin has brought not only green grass and a huge sigh of relief from farmers, but seas of blooming wildflowers on the side of almost every road and major street. These wildflowers, all native plants, are the legacy of Lady Bird Johnson, former First Lady and (it turns out) avid environmentalist, city beautification advocate and all-around incredible woman. Subscribe to: Posts (Atom).
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This Train: The Supreme Court shows its bangs
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One journey, many tracks. Friday, June 28, 2013. The Supreme Court shows its bangs. What do the sassy bang-style choices of Emerati women and DOMA have in common? Quite a bit, as it turns out. As most of you know, I lived for two years in Abu Dhabi, capital of the United Arab Emirates. While there, I gained insight into a Gulf-load of fascinating cultural phenomena, including the way many Emerati women choose to wear their abayas. Full-length black gowns) and hijabs. And bangs peeking out the hijabs.
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The Adventurous Parson: March 2010
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We have been in Brockton, MA - 80 Pleasant Street. Sunday, March 28, 2010. From Palms to Passion. First, a bit of a rant:. How do we confront the growing disparity between the privileged and the poor, the disparity we see all around us every day, in light of Jesus' obvious solidarity with the last, littlest and least? March 28, 2010. Luke 19:28-40 and Passion Gospel. We need to enter Holy Week and Passiontide as participants, not just as outside observers or curiosity seekers. We are called to partic...
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The Adventurous Parson: Heroism in God's cause is the mark of a saint
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We have been in Brockton, MA - 80 Pleasant Street. Monday, November 8, 2010. Heroism in God's cause is the mark of a saint. On this All Saints Sunday, I preached a two-part sermon. As St. Paul's Church prepares to close, we are thinking about the many gifts we have received in this place, and the treasures we will take with us wherever we go next. The part of the sermon where I talked about that comes at the end of this post. Nevertheless: in spite of it all, through it all, because of it all, St. Pa...
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The Adventurous Parson: December 2009
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We have been in Brockton, MA - 80 Pleasant Street. Sunday, December 20, 2009. We are all meant to be mothers of God. Advent 4-C Dec. 20, 2009. Canticle 15: The Magnificat. Mary and Elizabeth must be seen as the ultimate kooky “people of faith.” What c. Ould be less realistic than the words Mary sings when she meets up with her cousin, Elizabeth? Casting mighty from their seats of power? She, a pregnant, poor, unmarried girl? Filling the hungry with good things? What a kooky imagination this Mary has, to ...
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The Adventurous Parson: December 2010
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We have been in Brockton, MA - 80 Pleasant Street. Saturday, December 4, 2010. Last Call at the Starlight Cafe. November 28, 2010. How curious, perhaps, to close this church at the beginning of the church year. But at the beginning of a year we look both forward and back. We long for the peace of Jerusalem, but know it as a city full of violence – and so what vision do we have of the future? One person is taken, one is left. How can we ever be ready? If we were ready, how would we know? One day Jesus may...
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The Adventurous Parson: In Christ, all things hold together
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We have been in Brockton, MA - 80 Pleasant Street. Saturday, November 27, 2010. In Christ, all things hold together. Nov, 21, 2010. Canticle 16 (Luke 1:68-79). There’s going to be another Royal Wedding. Prince William, heir to the British throne, announced his engagement to Kate Middleton. Now we in America are not monarchists – we got rid of them long ago! But what do we see when we think of “Christ the King? I was stunned when I read in The Enterprise that heroin costs $5 “a dose.” What...Is it a ̶...
