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For those of us that type a lot, it's weird: certain words come off your fingers naturally. For ages, I've mistyped "seminar" as "seminary." Always thought it was kinda Freudian.
Today I was typing "security" and "secular" came off my fingertips instead.
Do you guys have that problem?
I love the fact that I can run two browsers — in my case, firefox and camino — and have two separate google identities to keep all my social media stuff in one space, exurbanista, while the rest of my universe goes to the multi-identity playground serving several different domains of mine at realname. That way, I can use each browser’s bookmarks to save pages to del.icio.us, save RSS feeds to iGoogle and Google reader, and manage individual bookmarks. With distinct Google accounts, I can avoid being distracted by chat messages that aren’t work related by disabling chat in the personal account while leaving it on in my social media account.
I’ve rearranged my feedreader so that i have an a-list (read daily), a b-list (read weekly) and a c-list (read when I have time). it’s made it so much easier for me to keep up.
I have a separate category for the blogs I work for, which will help me stay up to date with them.
And a third category for the blogs that don’t have much to do with faith, because that’s what I primarily use the hhthompson google reader for.
On an irrelevant note, I registered a new gmail account today, in my married name. Even though it’s still a good six months out, just wanted to get it before some other helen mosher goes, I want a gmail account! like all the helen thompsons did.
cat news: the stray that’s definitely adopted me, whom I call Rocket, goes to the vet tomorrow for a physical and to schedule his boybitectomy. i am now officially a 3-cat household, which probably means i’m a crazy cat lady. the cats sure are crazy, anyway.
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DS asked about baptism today. Also asked how we wound up with 50 gazillion denominations of Christianity.
Fortunately, we were on a long drive and I’d just been listening to a medieval history that gave me a refresher on all the disagreements Christians were having long before we dreamed up the Reformation and the Renaissance.
Anyone have a church history guide for a seeking teenager?
I’m in Philadelphia right now. It’s my home away from home, having lived here for five years. The best friends of my life are here, and this is the second year I’ve come up to spend my birthday with them.
So if you’ve written me email, and I haven’t replied, don’t worry. I’ll catch up on Monday.
Cartoon by Dave Walker. Find more cartoons you can freely re-use on your blog at We Blog Cartoons.
Seems fitting to find this the same day that I’m starting to show up in places like this.
…is what is it about female Episcopal priests and murder mysteries?
The latest hat in the ring:
Wah. I am starting to sound like a one-note flute sometimes, I guess, when I defend the fringes. But there is one place I’m hard and fast on when it comes to tradition, and that’s church music.
I love hymns and anthems, and I really should be in the choir, but EfM takes precedence right now and I’ve been too peripatetic in the past. I have a good chunk of the 1940 hymnal memorized because most of my churchness was before 1982. When your mom is the choir director, it becomes second nature.
But I find myself just… totally, BLEAH over so-called praise music. I love gospel music, stained-glass bluegrass, orchestral music, international songs of faith, spirituals, secular-music-brought-over, and, most of all, traditional hymns from the 18th and 19th century.
But I went to a church service not too long ago with a creative liturgy, adapted from the one we all know and love, and really enjoyed it. Except for the praise music.
Just wanted to let all my traditionalist friends-in-faith know that I’m not completely outside the box.
I have a post up at today’s Daily Episcopalian. I have another being published tomorrow, that’s kinda sorta part two, and in it, I out a small percentage of the blogs I write at, when the spirit siezes me to do so.
Part one is here:
What about Generation X? Cause quite frankly, I’m sick of that question, because it’s constantly asked and never answered. So I’ve attempted to answer it. Bear in mind my perspective is that of the person who was unchurched and among my agnostic peers for, like, 15 years. HINT TO THE VIRTUE AND CANANGLICAN WINDBAGS: WE DIDN’T RUN TO THE EVANGELICAL CHURCHES. We left because of people like you!
Part two will be published tomorrow, and it’s about how Helen came a little bit closer to merging her vocation and her profession by outing her various personalities on the blogosphere. In so doing, I found my call to social media ministry. In so doing, I really need to generate more content here, because you’re stopping by.
But tonight, I have a nasty bout of nasopharyngitis (sore throat and runny nose), and a fever to match. I do have a new blog in the works that I can announce even though I’m not done with its architecture yet. it’s about life here in the Shenandoah Valley, now that I bought a house. I mean, I was an arts and entertainment journalist for months, and it just seems to me that people should KNOW there’s more to this place than the Skyline Drive.
Ha. but I’m not giving you the link yet. you have to read the Daily Episcopalian post for Wednesday to get that.