Journal Entries for 2014
Journal Entries for 2012
Journal Entries for 2011
Journal Entries for 2010
Journal Entries for 2009
Journal Entries for 2008
Journal Entries for 2007
01: "Dessert CAN make you happy." (0 comments)
02: why did the writer cross the road?... (3 comments)
03: hymn geekery (4 comments)
04: where the snow lay dinted (0 comments)
06: "love's starved attention span" (2 comments)
08: "For shepherd and sheep upon the mountains..." (0 comments)
11: Crooked to move as a money-bug or a cancer (0 comments)
12: "Your hair is drunk again" (0 comments)
13: "even when nothing comes of it" (1 comments)
13: fresh each day (1 comments)
15: "we remember thee O Sion" (0 comments)
18: "All those people, all those lives, where are they now?" (0 comments)
19: donne, vedete s'io l'ho nel cor (1 comments)
20: no woman is a desert, no writer is an island (1 comments)
22: Hey, y'all! Things you love? Seven words. (3 comments)
23: pleasures (2 comments)
26: in peacock's feathers (0 comments)
27: complacencies of the peignoir (2 comments)
28: A list (0 comments)
29: careers, privilege, hound (3 comments)
30: slave labor and chocolate: still an issue (4 comments)
31: vendredi gras; strategies; exhibits (1 comments)
31: "Ann Arbor is the Sexiest City in America" (1 comments)
February
02: She gave joy. She found joy. (1 comments)
04: my recommendation: Obama (7 comments)
06: pushing around percentages (2 comments)
10: "to change the things I can, and..." (0 comments)
17: danser avec les orties (0 comments)
19: "bedraggled with words and their possibilities" (1 comments)
25: "...what we are and what words come to." (0 comments)
27: Bart Sher (0 comments)
28: summings-up (1 comments)
March
01: quickening grace in supply (1 comments)
05: ain't how you fall, it's how you get back up (0 comments)
11: "Telling Someone They're Wrong" (1 comments)
18: O vos omnes qui transitis per viam... (30 comments)
22: thanks / housekeeping (1 comments)
28: breathing in the lindens (1 comments)
29: concert Sunday night (0 comments)
April
04: that and this and there (1 comments)
05: beyond each mountain there is another mountain (0 comments)
06: " A freedom that reveres the past / but trusts the dawning future more..." (0 comments)
08: good things, happy things (0 comments)
11: L'instant d'après le vent se déchaîne (0 comments)
13: reaching out in silence into the cool breath (1 comments)
14: "I want my soul to find its proper body" (0 comments)
14: several observations about help (1 comments)
15: The salt, the spray, the gorgeous undertow... (0 comments)
16: So irrigate your heart until you know you're complete... (1 comments)
17: Dame d'un soir / Je t'imagine sans effort (0 comments)
17: dances with time capsules (4 comments)
18: with an easy grace, and with love enough (2 comments)
19: free sewing patterns (0 comments)
24: "are you breathing just a little, and calling it a life?" (0 comments)
27: "perching above its shadow..." (0 comments)
29: From the Dept. of Anti-Pandering (0 comments)
May
01: good things (4 comments)
03: the glamour and the laundry (2 comments)
06: from the Dept. of Anti-Pandering, #2 (0 comments)
09: 38 things in/about my life worth celebrating (5 comments)
14: Ripple Effect (0 comments)
17: dwelling on... (0 comments)
20: readings from this past Sunday (2 comments)
20: Stubbornness: All I Cannot Save (3 comments)
22: assorted links to mayhem (1 comments)
23: left, right, left, right... (0 comments)
24: recent glimpses of unconventional wisdom (1 comments)
25: sometimes writing a blurb is harrrrrrrd (0 comments)
30: callings and chores (2 comments)
31: Music Sunday and associated notes (0 comments)
June
01: new poem up at flashquake (6 comments)
07: 1 kvetch and 3 pleasures (0 comments)
08: readings for this morning's service (0 comments)
08: SERMON: Introversion and Community (2 comments)
14: the "standard info" meme (0 comments)
15: some things related to theology (0 comments)
18: learning to sing (0 comments)
19: effort vs. perspective (0 comments)
24: the times a-changin' (0 comments)
25: eavesdropping on lessons for others (2 comments)
28: a summer wind, a cotton dress (1 comments)
July
02: goodies for a good cause (0 comments)
04: left with me in the sheets (0 comments)
06: waking and sleeping, thy presence my light (0 comments)
08: "singin' hallelujah with the fear in your heart" (2 comments)
09: "The Best-Kept Secret in the Bible" (0 comments)
10: more from Duke Chapel (1 comments)
18: wonders to behold (1 comments)
24: Hair (0 comments)
25: on homiletics and HAIR (1 comments)
28: darkness and light (0 comments)
29: pleasures (2 comments)
30: "Pray only but be vigilant and set your hand to the work" (0 comments)
August
01: "Exit, Chased by Bear" (0 comments)
03: limits (0 comments)
03: Roxy Bogigian Leiserson (2 comments)
04: "education in equanimity for life and death" - wisdom from Waldo Beach (0 comments)
06: "shoveling, wrecking, planning..." (3 comments)
20: I aten't dead... (0 comments)
21: Dead Mule! (two poems and two additional links)) (2 comments)
23: "But we looked into a fire, we leaned across a table..." (0 comments)
24: call for action: the conscience rule (0 comments)
26: dodging the tongue of a frog (2 comments)
28: rite of passage (4 comments)
31: notes from the Ninja house (1 comments)
September
02: today's unexpected laugh (0 comments)
17: blots and blessings (2 comments)
25: Things Japanese in TN (especially Memphis) (2 comments)
29: Saz and Sue and other stuff (2 comments)
October
03: ugly, ponderable, doable, good (1 comments)
07: Perhaps the roses really want to grow (0 comments)
10: on despair and endurance (1 comments)
12: Frank Rich takes McCain and Palin to task on their rhetoric (0 comments)
13: two from St. Louis (0 comments)
14: Kane and Wyatt and Silano (0 comments)
15: "to breake, blowe, burn and make me new..." (0 comments)
16: skirting the coasts of sun and air (1 comments)
18: "something about a picnic basket" (0 comments)
18: Davidson County charter amendments (1 comments)
23: conferences and clippings (0 comments)
24: Never thought I'd live to be old enough... (1 comments)
25: two election-related notes (0 comments)
26: To be old enough to feel like this... (0 comments)
29: To be loud enough to make you listen (1 comments)
November
01: no matter what the time is (1 comments)
05: two things that please me (0 comments)
08: things (0 comments)
10: notes (1 comments)
16: more than me and more than yesterday (1 comments)
21: "with strange and unsure affection" (0 comments)
22: so lift those heavy eyelids... (1 comments)
29: my holiday so far - Belfast (0 comments)
December
01: Even the hours when wings are frozen... (1 comments)
03: RIP Doug Shaw (3 comments)
04: pleasures (0 comments)
05: helping Vera (0 comments)
07: Grant to your heart its hopeful promise (0 comments)
08: auction, accessibility, etc. (0 comments)
09: where to donate surplus giftwrap, etc. (1 comments)
12: quote of the day (0 comments)
15: clippings from the New York Times (0 comments)
16: affirming the margin of hope (0 comments)
17: That in course the flower may flourish... (0 comments)
20: navigating amplified times (0 comments)
21: SERMON: Tidings of Light (0 comments)
28: have sword, will dance (0 comments)
30: "And pleasure tunes my tongue" (0 comments)
