Month: July 2023
Two Walks
Birthday Dinner
Reworking a Favorite
A favorite of mine, taken just weeks after K and I got married. Edited for the third time…
Crusades
The meme — I couldn’t pass it up. The Crusades — not something one would joke about. So I said so.
In the end, the original poster devolved to this:
I’m not sure what he was referring to when he complained I deleted a comment: I didn’t knowingly delete any comment. Still, the rest of the comment left me wondering how someone like that can function in society. If you’re an adult willing to call someone stupid, who is willing to behave in such a juvenile manner, how can you hold a job? If it takes so relatively little to get you to behave like a pouting child, how can you keep your mouth shut when it really matters?
In the end, I left the conversation with the following final words: “Thanks for the wonderful Christian example. I’ll leave you to have the last word. Make it a good one!”
Getting Ready
The start of the school year approaches — only a little over a week and a half from now, I’ll be starting my twenty-fifth year in the classroom. Or twenty-sixth? Or twenty-fourth? Twenty-somethingth. This is a year of changes in a lot of ways. My room layout has been, more or less, the same for the last decade. If it works, why mess with it? But now I have a new desk from K and a new bookshelf from our house, so things are getting a little bit of a shakeup.
I’m also planning some changes in the simple things we do every day in class. No more article of the week for on-level classes as the bell-ringer. More discussion in class, more discussions that are simple, shorter. More writing, writing that is less structured and more choice-oriented.
The Boy and I spent a good bit of the late morning and early afternoon in my classroom, arranging things, putting books back on shelves, wiping down a few things.
Changes
K changed jobs a few weeks ago, moving away from pure surveying and CAD work to something a little different: water-line inspection. Sort of. She works for Greenville Water now, which means she no longer needs the fancy desk she was using.
Which means, I took it to school today. When I walked into my room, this is the sight that greeted me: all the desks turned up, ready for the poor custodians to come and scrape gum off the bottoms of desks.
More changes when we got back home: our neighbors are going to be moving out at some point in the near future. They’ve lived there long before we arrived. It will be strange for someone else to live there.
Church Nostalgia
Sunday
Saturday
I spent some time working outside; K stayed in the house. Typical summer Saturday.
And So It Begins
Departure
The raccoons have left, heading back to New Jersey to catch a flight Saturday back to Krakow.
It’s so very quiet…
Raccoons’ Last Evening
Observations and Scripture
A member of a Catholic forum recently asked the following question:
Should we allow our observations of the material world and the universe to inform our interpretation of scripture?
To many of us, this seems like a simple issue — the cliche “no-brainer.” It’s literally asking, “Should the things we learn from humanity’s scientific endeavors affect how we view a 2,000+ year-old book?” Of course it should! In what common-sense universe would it not?
But the responses went the other way:
We should allow the word of God to inform us of the interpretations of the study of the material world.
I’m not sure what the hell would be the point of this. If we were to do this, we would be looking for the firmament of water above the earth, and our study of genetics would consist of putting striped sticks by mating animals to see if it produced striped offspring. Hint: it won’t. Yet both of these ideas are from the Bible…
Another response:
No, the opposite..we should view the world from a biblical perspective, seeing through the lens of the word so as not to be deceived
Talk about pots and kettles!
Morning in Charleston
Spent the day in professional development, then mowed. Not much else to do other than include an image from this weekend.
Sunday
Quite the change from the last week — three cars washed. Nothing else today.
Eco Tour
In-Laws’ Visit: Day 8
In-Laws’ Visit: Day 7
In-Laws’ Visit: Day 6
