new year, new blog

I'm kicking off the New Year with a new look and a new home for the old blog. It was just time for an overhaul. Hope you'll join me here.

beer & carols

Beauty

holiday happiness

There are no words for how much I laugh every time I watch this. Maybe even funnier than it was in person. Spontaneity at its best.

it was no Blue Door Pub burger, but I just had a burger with peanut butter

just had a burger with peanut butter on it

best organic delivery ever

i find the sound of SEC football some of the most comforting background noise there is. 

Just Show Up

At 4pm today I was perfectly content  in my hoodie and PJs, a pot of tea at my side, some Nick Drake streaming from my iPod dock. Stack of current reads on the end table, an art project and a basket of knitting sitting nearby.

Sometimes we talk, my friends and I, about the importance of just showing up, whether one feels like it or not. For our community. And on some level, for ourselves. Today was my ‘don’t–want-to’ day. For no real reason other than I was comfy with my brown blanket and my feet up on the coffee table.

But I did show up. And I got to experience confession and absolution with my community. And witness Judah as Assisting Minister at the Eucharist. And share about what I love about our little rag-tag community of faith with some newer folks.

I get so much more than I ever give in this place. And today, just showing up was enough. 

compensating for insomnia with espresso shots this morning.

have I mentioned that today is Springsteen Special day?

ouch. apparently the flu shot made Jesus a little sore.

I really need a reading week.

just got my flu shot in my Jesus tattoo

tunes and tomes

reading:

Composed: A Memoir, Rosanne Cash

The Gifts of Imperfection: Let Go of Who You Think You're Supposed to Be and Embrace Who You Are, Brené Brown

Sabbath (The Ancient Practices Series), Dan Allender

listening:

Arcade Fire, The Suburbs

Ray LaMontagne, God Willin' & the Creek Don't Rise

Amiina, Kurr

Toad the Wet Sproket, I Will Not Take These Things For Granted

Airborne Toxic Event, The Airborne Toxic Event

The National, Boxer

The Frames, The Cost & The Road Outgrown

looking forward to: THE PROMISE: THE MAKING OF DARKNESS ON THE EDGE OF TOWN, INSIDER DOCUMENTARY ABOUT THE CREATION OF BRUCE SPRINGSTEEN'S FOURTH ALBUM, DEBUTS OCT. 7 ON HBO

today is a reading/writing kind of morning. and THAT makes me all kinds of happy.

16 folks for HFASS backyard movie night: JUNO or Marmaduke ? Your choice.

spicy nugget extravaganza

Photo of the day

Jesus really digs his Honeycomb Hideout