Paul David Mckay | Create Your Badge So before I can even get to my second cup of coffee after a soothing morning prayer this morning I go online to find that fear and panic have overtaken the universe, at least for the time being, as a result of the paranoid fearmongers having once again gained fraction [...]
Archive for July, 2009
Here we go again (the zealots and fearmongers are back but did they have to be in my face so early in the morning??? Somebody mail me a break!)
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged Faith & Church, politics or governing, Theology on July 29, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Ode to the Tiffany Lamp, by Rev. Jitterbug
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged beauty on July 29, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
O lamp of Tiffany you are pretty, functional, a trifle mystic and very New Orleans in that nocturnal way . . . . You endure like . . . . Joan Baez
War is Hell on warriors and families
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged family, war & peace on July 29, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Laura Smith, wife of U.S. Army Sgt. First Class Charles Smith, hugs the father of a fellow soldier after the 293rd Military Police Company deployed to Afghanistan July 28, 2009 in Fort Stewart, Georgia. More than 130 soldiers from the company, attached to the Army’s 3rd Infantry Division, will spend the next year in Afghanistan [...]
‘Beauty will save the world’ — Doestevsky
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For Anne Lamott
It is Anne Lamott Appreciation Month here, still
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged Books, Faith & Church, Theology on July 29, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Word by Word with Anne Lamott Dave Weich, Powells.com “I’ve heard someone say that our problems aren’t the problem; it’s our solutions that are the problem,” Anne Lamott reflects. “That tends to be one thing that goes wrong for me—my solutions.” Lamott’s readers will attest that she writes cleaner than she’s lived. Her younger, occasionally [...]
Yes I caught that glitch and no, not forgot that
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged Faith & Church, Theology on July 29, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
I caught the glitch on the Betty Perry article below and have cleaned it up and no, I haven’t forgotten it’s Anne Lamott Appreciation Month at Jitterbuggingforjesus.com, the blog site that will humble Rush Limbaugh with God using jitterbugger as God’s agent and all that. (Newcomers note: we at JFJ have a hard time mustering [...]
A personal message to Sir Paul
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged Music on July 29, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
We know we know you eat your vegetables, Sir Paul. Like World War II, your vegetarian obsession was in ALL THE PAPERS the past 30 years. And let me just say, I WILL NOT BE EATING ANY VEGGIE BURGERS AT THE SHOW. As much man love as I have for you, ol’ bud, I WON”T [...]
Dave Matthews Was on Dave Letterman (And it was good)
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged Male Bonding, Music, Theology on July 28, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
So here it is, a photograph of Dave Matthews as he appeared on his good buddy Dave Letterman’s Show Monday night, yukking it up with Letterman before he and his band the Dave Matthews Band performed “Why I Am” from the new Matthew’s CD “Big Whiskey and the Groo Grux King. Dave told Dave a [...]
Women We Love (The Uncommon Touch Div.)
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged Faith & Church, poverty & hunger, Theology on July 28, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Well, actually, I don’t know Ms. Perry but love her and her kind for the kind of work they just keep slugging away at for the betterment of the world and the advancement of the Kingdom of which Jesus has given us a foretaste and expects us to advance till the end amen. With no [...]
Jeremiah was not just a bullfrog that the Three Dog Nighters made famous
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged beauty, Theology on July 28, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Paul David Mckay | Create Your Badge So I’m driving home from hospital duty many ticks after midnight this morning while you were still in dreamland and I turn on the radio and it’s playing the Three Dog Night tribute to Jeremiah, and it occurs to me that I should remind jitterbuggers first thing this morning (and [...]
