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  • My pastor calls it practical atheism, and it's amazing how quickly it comes to seem like common sense. I sit in church on Sunday mornings and listen to the sermon, make mental notes of the profound points and breathta…
  • Something downright beautiful happened this afternoon, and it came out of nowhere. I got to watch a real, live baseball game! Despite three years at Campbell, I've never once seen their team. Late this afternoon, as …
  • Oh my goodness! It would pick today to rain! - today of all days! I had to trudge through muddy grass and ford innundated sidewalks not one - not two - not three - but eight times today, dressed up, wearing high heels…
  • I found six and a half spare minutes lying around! I should have taken them into the practice room with me, but since I'm leaving momentarily to meet someone for lunch, I took them home - but I lost three on the way. …
  • He makes me to lie down in green pastures; He leads me beside the still waters, He restores my soul.
  • Twelve books, four essays, sticky squares of scrumptiously rich and sugary baklava, lamplight, and the Chocolat soundtrack are all one needs to write sixteen pages. It does help if you're writing about something as lovel…
  • Isaiah 53:11 After the suffering of His soul, He will see the light of life and be satisfied.
  • "B" grades are not a sin. Failing to love your brothers is. And yet disappointing your teachers, wasting the time and labor they devote to your education - that isn't responsible either. What gives? Do you not think i…
  • Help! I'm addicted to clocks! This distresses me because I realized the other day - it was a jolt I assure you - that clocks are machines, and thus susceptible to failure. The clock in one of my classrooms went nuts, …
  • I'm absolutely convinced that Beethoven ought to be regarded as a Romantic rather than a Classical composer, but I'm having the most difficult time arguing persuasively for it in ten pages! I want fourteen. How is it …
  • Baseball season has begun. Go Braves!
  • I don't understand how mental exertion can wear one out physically. I've worked so hard that I hurt all over. I don't like working so much and so fast! My mind spins into overdrive and I blindside my to-do list until I…

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