Sorry - I am out of posts. Maybe tomorrow. Zane is certainly bummed about it.
Monday, July 20, 2009
Sunday, July 12, 2009
Living is always a requirement, but living well is optional. I have chosen to live well. What does that entail? My 'off the top of the head' thoughts include:
1. enjoying the presence first of God, second of His people and then, managing to enjoy those of
differing moral standards, (who sometimes make me want to spit!)
2. 'sowing' into the lives of others
3. being available to serve when it is inconvenient
4. getting stuff (definition? Umm, later on that) done and done to completion.
I have a glaring character defect. Telling you about it (you can already guess it!) may have the joyous result of encouraging me to change! Tah DAH. . . .it is leaving jobs/stuff almost finished and maybe or maybe not coming back to it later to do the last bit. Numberless things are around the house TODAY that need 20 or 30 minutes more to get the last teensy bit accomplished. Do I agonize that they sit there on tables and chairs (yes, a chair is just a shelf you can sit on sometimes) for a few days or weeks and do not see the end? Nope!! Others could not leave things undone like that. ME?? I can. Willingly!
Maybe I will get the camera and take a few pics of
1. enjoying the presence first of God, second of His people and then, managing to enjoy those of
differing moral standards, (who sometimes make me want to spit!)
2. 'sowing' into the lives of others
3. being available to serve when it is inconvenient
4. getting stuff (definition? Umm, later on that) done and done to completion.
I have a glaring character defect. Telling you about it (you can already guess it!) may have the joyous result of encouraging me to change! Tah DAH. . . .it is leaving jobs/stuff almost finished and maybe or maybe not coming back to it later to do the last bit. Numberless things are around the house TODAY that need 20 or 30 minutes more to get the last teensy bit accomplished. Do I agonize that they sit there on tables and chairs (yes, a chair is just a shelf you can sit on sometimes) for a few days or weeks and do not see the end? Nope!! Others could not leave things undone like that. ME?? I can. Willingly!
Maybe I will get the camera and take a few pics of
Tuesday, July 7, 2009
Do you "pull stunts"? I did one today! Coming out of a drive way, I realized that I was meant to have picked up another paper at the office from which I was exiting. Bummer! I turned to my friend and said,"Oh, drat! (or words to that effect), I was meant to pick . . .etc" to which she replied, "Well, go back and do it now! No point in coming all this way again!" I had a quick look around, said to Beth, "Gonna PULL a stunt! Get ready!", and we made a perfectly 
safe and easy non threatening U turn. Glad that I did, since it would have been another $1 00 of gas to return later on and then that would have been a drag. Don't often pull stunts I don't, in cars anyway!
safe and easy non threatening U turn. Glad that I did, since it would have been another $1 00 of gas to return later on and then that would have been a drag. Don't often pull stunts I don't, in cars anyway!
Monday, July 6, 2009
Too tired to really give a good report of the day - circumstances required that I miss clogging - so you know that it was a big thing. Sigh. More in a day or two. I am blessed and there are no worries - and I am delighted to see the Hand of God at work in my family. How does He know what to do?????
I am going to Kenya in August and will go on to England to see phoebe. How nice is that??
Sunday, July 5, 2009
Once a year I meet with a friend for whom I have the dearest regard - a wonderful mother of two and caretaker of her 90+ yearold mother. She and her family, (husband and 2 lads) used to meet our family of 2 boys - they are just about the same ages, - until our lads turned to a rambunctious stretching of the law, causing consequences that I (and Marlenes fam) did not, and do not, think others should emulate - Sssoooooo, Marlene's boys quietly retreated into other cliques at school, a few years ago. She and I have kept in touch and have a ritual 4th July picnic here in Wilmore, watching the fireworks put on by the Wilmore Benefactor, R.J. Corman. This is the business that RJ does - righting derailed train cars. 
His operation is in Nicholasville, the neighboring town, and has done very very, well - one of the bigg
er employers of the area. He built an airport for the private jet - at right, and has been a great source of funds for this and that. His fireworks display is always fabulous, and he opens his (multi-acre) property for people to park and watch. Marlene and I do not park on his property, since the lines to leave the fields are too long. We park nearby and watch with a picnic and adult bev so that we 
can leave easily. Our conversations range from poetry, child rearing, adult rearing, and the economy, plus moral issues and the Catholic church or the Protestant church.
One only has a few friends of this calibre in life, and I love being able to pick up just as though there had not been maybe a year between our visits to one another.
How are these relationships built? And what sparks them in the first place? Is there any mechanism for picking the friend and manufacturing the depth of the intimacy? NO!! I choose to say, since my experience has been that such friends are born, nurtured and blossom, even without hardly noticing that it is happening. All of a sudden one can say, "There is a friend who is deeper and more nourishing than the others. Yes!!"
His operation is in Nicholasville, the neighboring town, and has done very very, well - one of the bigg
er employers of the area. He built an airport for the private jet - at right, and has been a great source of funds for this and that. His fireworks display is always fabulous, and he opens his (multi-acre) property for people to park and watch. Marlene and I do not park on his property, since the lines to leave the fields are too long. We park nearby and watch with a picnic and adult bev so that we 
can leave easily. Our conversations range from poetry, child rearing, adult rearing, and the economy, plus moral issues and the Catholic church or the Protestant church.One only has a few friends of this calibre in life, and I love being able to pick up just as though there had not been maybe a year between our visits to one another.
How are these relationships built? And what sparks them in the first place? Is there any mechanism for picking the friend and manufacturing the depth of the intimacy? NO!! I choose to say, since my experience has been that such friends are born, nurtured and blossom, even without hardly noticing that it is happening. All of a sudden one can say, "There is a friend who is deeper and more nourishing than the others. Yes!!"
Friday, July 3, 2009
Having guests is the BEST way to get the house in order. Having teenagers is the best way to fight consistency and boredom. Having friends is the best way to do the other two!
I hosted a "Surprise" party for my Kenyan sister, Rhoda, today. I had to fake a minor meltdown to get her to my house! Carol, another friend, 'happened to be' over in Rhoda's town, and they were to come here together, but Rhoda was tired, and said, "I will go tomorrow." So in the end, I had to make another call, and really moan and cry and be out of control with tears and heaves!! That did it! Rhoda told Carol to, "Sure, come here and pick me up - we NEED to go to Miss Aureol's!"
I believe that the custom in Kenya is NOT tot open gifts with others watching over you, but in the US it is done. So I asked Rhoda if she wanted to open her few gifts and we'd watch - "Oh, yes," she replied. So now I know that she is acculturated! Well done Rhoda!!
It was the biggest day of the year for her, and I am chuffed to death
to have been the initiator and host. I would do it again. It is Rhoda and her husband (who is in Louisiana for his job this month) who are leading the missions trip to Kenya in August.
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