Daily Archives: September 14, 2006

I Guess We’re Skipping Fall?

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The weather yesterday was lovely — 60 was the high around here.Â? Today, I think it got up to 45 and was really rainy and windy.Â? (I slept soooooo well because it was just “stay in bed” weather.)Â? Saturday: THEY’RE FORCASTING SNOW!!!!!!!!!!!Â? (I probably wouldn’t care except that Jon has a funeral and going out in the graveyard when it’s that cold is just miserable.)

Next week, it’s supposed to be 55-60 during the day with highs of 35(!!!!!) at night.Â? I guess the Almighty is compensating for it being so bloody hot this summer and harvest being a month early!

Sportsmanship

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I went to the junior high basketball game tonight.Â? It turns out that the town I used to work in was playing the team which has some of my church kids on it so… cheering was *interesting*.Â? (On a happier note, I got hugs from the people I worked with who were at the game, including my former co-receptionist.)

Something that really impressed me: the girls were just very good about their sportsmanship.Â? People *did* get elbowed and tripped and all that but they’d help each other up even if the person was from the other team.Â? That was just wonderful to see because I remember seeing almost bloodshed at games in Minnesota.Â? I was quite proud of them, especially my church kids who behaved themselves so well on the court.

Hear the Words of Lauren Winner…

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In the spirit of Dreama’s post today, hear this passage from Mudhouse Sabbath:

… the shopping expedition [where she finds that she can’t fit into a medium dress] was good proof that, though I believe God has something to say about human bodies, I generally tune God out and listen to Cosmopolitan instead.Â? I’m pretty sure that God, if he called to chat about my body, would say things like, “I like your body.Â? I created your body, and if you have read the first chapter of Genesis lately, you might recall that I called Creation good.” (pp.66-67)

I dunno… the quote just came to me while reading the post.Â? And duuuuude, I want the scale from the article that she cites.

(Oh yes… this book needs to be on the wishlist of a certain Episcopalian I know.)