Four years ago I was in my prime. Two years from now I will be in my prime. How old am I?

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Just for fun I’ve been working through the gigantic “Praise and Worship Fake Book” as a way of [...]

Just when my brain was beginning to cave in, I happened upon this book on the discount rack in the airport: And, happy day, two more books have since been released. Are you familiar with edge.org? Enjoy.

An empty taxi arrived and out of it stepped Attlee. –attributed to Winston Churchill It is not good for the man to be alone. Genesis 2:18, NIV I’m the spastic monastic. My personality is elastic. [...]

I keep forgetting to mention this. The ever-surprising Will Fitzgerald produced a recording of Cyber-Psalm 26. This recording is worthy of note for the sound effects, the artificial voice and also for the interpretation that comes out in the reading. Cyber-Psalm 26 was meant to be an exercise in mathematical praise symbology. Each cipher [...]

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Well, the planned trip to Tete to apply for new residency papers and also pick up our friends the Bisters for a weekend birthday bash was interrupted when the Land Rover’s engine blew. Thankfully I was only 35 kilometers from home and a truck full of customs agents stopped and gave me a [...]

Laudato sie, mi Signore, cun tutte le tue creature. Praised are you, my Lord, with all your creatures. “Cantico delle creature” by San Francesco D’Assisi   Sometimes as outsiders we use the term “animism” disparagingly to refer to the system of belief that sees spiritual causes for all material events. [...]

I tell a joke. You tell a joke. The joke must contain a hippo. Here is a whimsical hippo with a Bible verse! Now the first joke: Q: What jungle animal can put you in a trance? A: A hypnopotamus. Your turn. Any joke that makes [...]

Even toddlers have cell phones in Mozambique, originally uploaded by Lingamish.

On our Sunday walk we passed by these two young ladies. The one on the right is holding a cell phone. I wonder if she’s waiting for a call or if maybe Mom doesn’t realize what she’s playing with!

I wish to apologize for a recent snarky post I wrote. The tone was inappropriate and I apologize. Several blog friends have contacted me urging me to withdraw the post and I have finally got it through my thick skull and done so. I ask you to please not link to it. The [...]

Somebody got into my Dad’s email account and changed his password and then sent SPAM to everyone in his contact list. Bummer! I knew his password (Hey, it wasn’t me!) and it would have been impossible to guess. So something more sinister happened. I keep a password protected file on my computer [...]