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out to be sometimes grief and loss and unmet expectations overwhelm me does that happen to you but i love love love mornings the morning light breakfast with berries that doesn t happen year round but this is summer and an imagination fueled prospectus of what the day may hold even when it s a routine everyday gets me smiling isn t it about grace surprise serendipity and unexpected joys if you know me at all you know i love summer sunshine warmth city sidewalks urban beaches and ocean breezes but maybe even better if summer s here my major new year is on the way check out my opening image i ve written about my several new years the first sunday of advent january 1 of a new calendar year my late january birthday all of which make solid opportunities for new starts but probably like many others late summer is my main new year my primary new beginning memories of a new academic year ranging from kindergarten through a series of graduate and professional schools energize my hope there s nothing halfway like it schools around here began again on wednesday august 12 something about that date doesn t feel half as exciting and fulfilling as when i was coming up and school started the thursday after labor day i opened with a song about human expectations that romantic love will arrive with bells whistles and songs sometimes it does along with the reality that love in any kind of relationship frequently sneaks up on both persons and almost imperceptibly becomes deeper wider and stronger when you look back you can see all the increments along the way including the halfway mark the morning of every day the dawn of a new school year how poetic of me don t all of those start less than halfway and grow into more than we ever thought could be did you know in order to be considered half as good a woman must be twice as good luckily that is not difficult https whatsyourgrief com grieving an online friend cybergrief blogged on 10 45 00 pm 5 comments email this blogthis share to x share to facebook share to pinterest tags topics five minute friday music natural history museum butterflies orcas ads for the butterfly pavilion at the natural history museum kept popping up online and all over town for a while tuesdays were the museum s day off which meant i couldn t go there on my tuesday day off with summer the schedule switched so two special exhibits at the nhm became my museum visit of the week such serendipity because the butterflies close this coming sunday as the poster announcement explains visitors got 30 minutes with the lovely insects the enclosure was extravagantly planted to attract and feed the twenty some butterfly varieties in all life stages although there was no formal commentary several staff members were there to answer questions after the butterflies i ventured into orcas our shared future it was visually beautiful and scientifically detailed for me the expressive orca influenced art was the highlight most of the art was by indigenous artists pacific northwest coast first nation peoples and i didn t try for more than a few impressions i also avoided displays that had a violence warning label blogged on 6 00 00 pm 1 comment email this blogthis share to x share to facebook share to pinterest tags topics creation los angeles museums water thursday august 13 2026 five minute friday disrupt monday at vacation bible school 2014 ready to collect backpacks for community christian service center s annual back to school initiative five minute friday disrupt linkup kate s story intrigued me and because it was familiar i decided to piggyback on it intro when i still was in previous city the place i was living needed mold remediation in their process the contractors decided to disrupt my bedroom instead of my landlady housemate s art studio per her request which created awkward entry and exit from my room her studio was bedroom 3 in a 3 bedroom house part 1 for the mold exit week we found a hotel with a good deal for pets so we took p s small dog and my two cats there it meant two humans and three pets in a regular size hotel room and you know what that disruption for everyone worked out fine for all of us it was august and vacation bible school week with the church some distance away from the hotel because of our pet related lodging needs every morning i traveled to vbs during rush hour that trip was a relatively minor change or disruption from when i lived around the corner from the church and could walk there in less than five minutes but the less familiar scenery energized me maybe by disrupting my usual expectations and routines part 2 because getting the mold out meant a major structural disruption of ripping out a wall my friend decided it would be a perfect time to update the second floor bathroom that had some mostly age related concerns and that like at kate s house was the only full bath back in the tierrasanta holy land neighborhood the week after our hotel stay that also was the week after vbs since the mold people had left the bathroom contractors were able to start did i mention it was august because august is hot in southern california one you me any person had best not skimp on showers so we arranged with two different neighbors to shower at their house two households so as not to disrupt only one every day outro you may be expecting to hear about another disruption but the new bathroom with a working shower finally happened so that s the end of this week s five minute friday since then the church s senior pastor has retired his kids now are adults and the church has a new fellowship hall since then i ve moved north to los angeles i ve enjoyed reminiscing because it showed me what might be possible again and now it likely will take a few more disruptions before my days are full again thanks for reading blogged on 9 45 00 pm 1 comment email this blogthis share to x share to facebook share to pinterest tags topics five minute friday san diego tellingthestory vacation bible school vbs vbs 2014 thursday august 06 2026 five minute friday shift if anyone has the world s goods and sees his brother in need yet closes his heart against him how does god s love abide in him 1 john 3 17 five minute friday shift linkup my first impulse was shifting from one musical mode or key to another shifting gears in a vehicle did you know i loathe despise and abhor automatic transmissions changing styles switching activities changing your mind about something an attitude shift then i read kate s blog about work shifts of course although unlike her son i ve never worked third shift in a past life i knew someone rip who had he explained a special kind of person loves third shift often for all their lives to continue the employment topic i can tell you working second shift isn t nearly as bad as i d imagined without a doubt it s partly my gratitude for a job almost any job and for the most part i like the job my fave work schedule is odd irregular days preferably with a couple of split shifts during the week unusual i know if work needs to be monday through friday days 7 to 3 fits best though in real life i ve worked those hours only two separate summers when i was a lot younger i worked five jobs seven days a week and loved it i d like to figure out something like that again because some of those jobs had fluid hours i averaged 35 to 40 hours each week almost never more than 45 that was so good because i had large chunks of time off most days having said that shifting from one job to another might be on the horizon for some of us what does a major shift like that entail my header art asks how god s love can abide in someone who doesn t love their sister or brother god s love wants to abide to make a home an abode in us we have passed out of death to life because we love the brothers and sisters whoever does not love abides in death 1 john 3 14 the greek means to pass over to change to depart to move death to life is a very big shift blogged on 10 00 00 pm 5 comments email this blogthis share to x share to facebook share to pinterest tags topics epistle epistles five minute friday life stuff friday july 31 2026 july 2026 if you ve been following this blog or my days in general you probably know my current between lives work situation gives me one day off each week so i do my best to make tuesdays interesting and momentous with an activity like a museum visit here s the rundown for july tuesday 07 july this didn t count as momentous but i enjoyed hanging out at the century city mall in an unusual configuration you enter from the santa monica boulevard sidewalk there s also an attached parkade and once you re inside the mall two floors of shops department stores and eateries open up unlike many shopping centers this one is alive well and a cool place to chill it s larger and not as upscale as the grove and it s slightly less plebeian than shopping centers like culver city that s also a westfield the la westside neighborhood of century city claims pride of place in between the municipality of beverly hills and the westwood hood where ucla resides because there was a coffee bean tea leaf i had to have a hazelnut frappe did you know cb tl does hazelnut much better than anywhere else with subway s current meal of the day rotation featuring tuna on tuesdays you know what i got tuesday14 july village square at lacma tuesday 21 july getty center again because they had some new exhibits i intended to view but instead of visiting them i sat around various spots inside and out and took some pictures tuesday 28 july again this time i didn t write a separate blog for the last tuesday of the month i went back to the getty and into the research institute building where i visited lost found returned about the provenance of a particular drawing and stendahl s world marketing ancient mexico and modern art in los angeles i d seen the word provenance before but i didn t know the meaning provenance is where something originates pro venire comes from along with its journey if it has one beyond place of birth in many ways tracing provenance is like tracking the title trail for a real property especially legal aspects of both i don t link to the exhibitions on museum websites because they ll be gone as soon as the art in question is gone but i strongly encourage you to check out earl l stendahl s acquisitions exhibitions and sales particularly when he got into mesoamerican art and artifacts that became a trend and a status symbol everything wasn t genuine and he left devastation behind at the excavation sites wikipedia says he sold mexican and central american antiquities that were often stolen looted or assembled from disparate fragments often sold to hollywood collectors to museums and even department stores to think it happened during the century we just left blogged on 10 50 00 pm no comments email this blogthis share to x share to facebook share to pinterest tags topics los angeles museums what i learned in thursday july 30 2026 five minute friday afford five minute friday afford linkup it feels as if everyone except the ultra affluent is mired in an affordability crisis cities like new york london and san francisco aside who can afford housing transportation groceries almost anywhere can anyone afford an out of town vacation to quit their job and take time to find another that in the long run will be a better fit and pay more can you afford to start your own business what kind of entertainment can you afford with more and more conventional goods becoming luxuries what now most of us who write to these prompts knew life in the previous century even if we started using technology early on most five minute friday writers aren t digital natives can you sense where i m headed maybe you re already there step back a couple of decades to a backyard garden rent a community garden plot check out the farmer s market or a sidewalk vendor their fare may be more affordable it s probably fresher and you can benefit the nearby economy besides can you really afford to pay big ag and all the supply chain intermediaries step back from streaming and try hard to remember days of board games and analog puzzles together preparing dinner together how s your memory try to recapture some of the free or inexpensive entertainment that probably included conversation and a major bonus of getting to know each other better what shape does your everyday take can you afford your current arrangement it would be surprising to find someone who hasn t considered those concerns whatever the economy does laying the foundation of the days the weeks the future hopes how about following the admonition of scripture to be kind to one another tenderhearted forgiving one another as god in christ has forgiven you ephesians 4 32 can you afford forgiveness how can we not afford to forgive please remember it s aways possible to forgive yet sometimes it s impossible and or unwise to reconcile blogged on 10 15 00 pm 2 comments email this blogthis share to x share to facebook share to pinterest tags topics ephesians five minute friday older posts home subscribe to posts atom popular posts the last year five minute friday bury five minute friday bury linkup the pastor i was counseling with in an informal conversational manner said to me in jesus five minute friday persevere five minute friday persevere linkup especially in the southern states of the usa people like to encourage one another to ke five minute friday outcome five minute friday outcome linkup soccer and the world cup isn t one of my preoccupations but i love major league baseball five minute friday behind five minute friday behind linkup behind can be left back there instead of taking or bringing it with me behind is not up to da five minute friday anymore five minute friday anymore linkup when do you quit when does a person lose hope how long does it take to know i don t live t five minute friday stuff five minute friday stuff linkup the snow duck is so 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