Brews You Can Use For the first time this year, I feel normal. I still had low energy and virtually no motivation this week, but yesterday, I noticed that I seemed to have my wind back. Heck, I almost felt good. So I'll celebrate. My hometown is having

Running a bit late today. Theology on Tap went well last night. We changed the venue, which seemed to make a big difference. I'll be continuing the series. Next up: Zen Buddhism. It's a natural outgrowth of last night's lecture, which talked about Kerouac&

Kerouac and Anthony "I felt like a million dollars; I was adventuring in the crazy American night." That was a Jack Kerouac Tweet. Alright, Kerouac didn't Tweet it, of course, since he died in 1967, which was, what, two years before Twitter, but I saw it

On Saturday the word s***hole was projected on to Trump's D.C. hotel. It got even worse when Motel 6 sued them for copyright infringement. Fallon

Miscellaneous Rambling The Little Flower Company is Facebook official [https://www.facebook.com/The-Little-Flower-Company-1593872617362439/]. Therese seems excited to get started. We're working through a flower business book, but I'm open to suggestions. If anyone knows anything about growing quantities of cut flowers and wouldn't

Miscellaneous Rambling: On History Day 12. The flu softens its grip on me every day, but it's not going away soon. Although I am taking walks outdoors (on top of the exercise, my lungs seem to enjoy the cold), I'm still not back to a regular

> "Many colleges claim that they develop 'leaders.' All too often, that means turning out graduates who cannot feel fulfilled unless they are telling other people what to do. There are already too many people like that, and they are a menace to everyone else's

> 😊#PositiveNewsWeekend [https://twitter.com/hashtag/PositiveNewsWeekend?src=hash&ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw] > I love these Strandbeests: wind-propelled kinetic sculptures created by Dutchman Theo Jansen. #art [https://twitter.com/hashtag/art?src=hash&ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw] #beach [https://twitter.com/hashtag/beach?src=hash&

Brews You Can Use This has been a long time in coming: "A bill that would end Indiana's prohibition-era ban on carryout Sunday alcohol sales was overwhelmingly approved by a key state Senate committee." Link [http://abc7chicago.com/politics/indiana-senate-committee-approves-sunday-booze-sales-bills/2928685/?sf178926156=1] . I grew up

Lecture Notes This illness continues to dog me, taking my crops, land, money, and womenfolk. For today, I merely present part of my notes from Part I of the Theology on Tap Lecture on the causes of the Reformation . . . The Black Death: As much as 60% of Europe wiped out.