Mixed Moss

James 1:18 He chose to give us birth through the word of truth, that we might be a kind of firstfruits of all he created.
He chose. He chose. He chose to give us birth. He wanted us around. Everything has a start and a finish but God; our start, our birth, was of his choosing. […]

This morning I was reflecting on how lovely it is to have a job that actually means something, that makes a difference. It means that one doesn’t feel a vague resentment at having to get up at an ungodly hour of the morning and put on clothes one doesn’t really like and go to an […]

This morning I was reflecting on how lovely it is to have a job that actually means something, that makes a difference. It means that one doesn’t feel a vague resentment at having to get up at ungodly hours and put on clothes one doesn’t really like and go to an office for eight hours. Getting […]

Poor baby. I hope it’s ok.
Whale Swimming in London Lost, Likely Sick
By ERIKA PENNINGTON, Associated Press Writer
LONDON, England - A lost and likely sick whale swam up the River Thames
past Parliament and Big Ben in central London on Friday, attracting
huge crowds and a police boat escort before nearly beaching itself on the
shallow riverbank.
The […]

Wed Jan 18, 3:58 PM ET
TOKYO - Gohan and Aochan make strange bedfellows: one’s a 3.5-inch dwarf hamster; the other is a four-foot rat snake. Zookeepers at Tokyo’s Mutsugoro Okoku zoo presented the hamster — whose name means “meal” in Japanese — to Aochan as a tasty morsel in October, after the snake refused […]

Is it possible to homesick for a place that’s never been home?
Every year, during January, February and March, I periodically have homesick days. Perhaps “homesick” is not really the word; basically, I want to go to London. No, not London, even; the UK in general. I don’t know why this is. But it’s happened to […]

Tonight I went to my second West End Community Council meeting in as many months. t went much more smoothly; people were at least willing to shut up every once in a while if only to let the meeting progress. The imported agitators were apparently absent; just community members and stake holders present. Dale Mallory […]

“Richard Clayton always described Amy as mercurial, and Paul was coming to understand why. She seemed a curious amalgam of the ancient and the modern. She seemed connected to the earth in the most fundamental way, yet she embraced technology with enthusiasm. Not a trace of makeup on her clear creamy skin, the roses in […]

“For such a woman, a man would ride into battle–would wear his heart on his sleeve–would whisper her name into the shadows of night.”
–Jane Greensmith

A True Myth.
I fling an arm over the side of my mattress, reaching towards the small, angrily beeping black box that serves as both guardian of my time and disturber of my sleep, and switch it off. I step out of bed. The sole of one bare foot touches the grey carpeting that doubtless covers […]