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⛺️ The first campground was full. The second had one old man camping in his van and a zillion frogs. Still, we pitched the tent, that is until @dellachelpkaart nearly stepped on a rattler. “Lot of them out here,” the old man told us. Our final campsite was a La Quinta. So comfy!
📚🔈 My family and I finished listening to The Long Winter by Laura Ingalls Wilder. What an amazing story.
💪🏻 A week ago, I could only do 26 pushups spread out over three sets. Today, I did 36. I’m surprised how fast that happened! I’m almost at my goal of 40.
💌 I updated my Now Page yesterday. And if you want the extended play version, subscribe to my (relaunched) newsletter. It’s written and sent with love.
I suppose that when you create your own Indiepaper read-later feed on Micro.blog, you could share it with others. So it’s not locked. But is it discoverable? cc: @manton @cleverdevil
🎵 For your summer playlist: My friend, Austin Britton, singing and playing his heart out on his album A Light for the Next Hour. Get yourself a copy @austinbrittonmusic.com.
⛪️ One of my elders asked me to write another ready-to-use liturgy in case I get sick or some planned pulpit supply falls through. I did that and created a page to collect these.
🍸 Lift a glass to this beautiful olive tree. It’s about 65 years old. I wrote a little meditation on Psalm 128:3 with this tree in mind.
👋 Meet Watchman Wee. He was created by my dad, a meticulous craftsman who always keeps a bit of whimsy close by. I love that about my dad.
👁🗨 It’s the middle of the night. Do you know who your iPhone is talking to? from The Washington Post
Apple promises privacy, but iPhone apps share your data with trackers, ad companies and research firms
Good news: you can limit the tracking.
UPDATE: WSJ published a similar article.
🐌 Loading problems for my website are fixed now. Thanks to the Micro.blog slack community, esp. @mikehaynes for the help.
🌱 Inspired by the Johnny Appleseed of hollyhocks, I now have a bag of seeds and am on a mission.
⍟ If you’d like to better understand Jesus’s relationship to the Father, or the Trinity in general, listen to last week’s sermon. Tomorrow, I will preach again from John 5. This time, I’ll teach more about the Spirit.
⍟ How a journalist pretended to be scientist and fooled the media into reporting that chocolate helps people lose weight.
🎵 Finzi, Parry, and Bridge: today is a great day for listening to English string orchestra music.