The Dog Ate My Paper and Other Excuses

June 23, 2009

What can I say? The weather has been beautiful and so I’ve been outside. Walking, bike riding, strolling through the fresh produce at the farmer’s market, sitting in the shade in front of the coffee shop reading and generally playing like a kid on summer vacation. This little pastoral photo is of my beloved from a biking adventure we went on last week in Sonoma Valley; that would be the same beloved who took me at my word when I shouted, “No, you go ahead, I’ll catch up.” She did and I barely did.

And along with playing with my sweetie, I’ve cleaned the house, had my hair highlighted back to my natural hair color (at least according to my selective memory), baked cookies for hospitality hour at church, and even curled up on the floor a time or two next to one of our cats who had found a perfect spot near the entry way window to enjoy the warmth of the first of the summer sun. [Note to self: You are too old to lay on the hardwood floor and not pay for it later you knucklehead!]

I just wanted to give you a heads up that a) I’m still here with no plans of abandoning ship or site, and b) I’m going to be participating in a synchroblog project tomorrow, Wednesday, June 24, that involves more than 50 bloggers. Each blogger will be adding a post to their own blog that deals specificially with how they think we might begin and/or continue to bridge the gap between people on the issue of sexuality and in particular homosexuality. This initiative is being sponsored by Bridging the Gap: Conversations on Befriends Our Gay Neighbors, which is an outreach of New Direction Ministry. I didn’t hesitate to accept the invitation to participate in this blogging event and would encourage you to set aside some time tomorrow to come here and read my post and then go to Bridging the Gap where you can follow links to the other bloggers posts so that you might hear the wide range of voices of those who are committed to meeting on the bridge and joining hands in Christian fellowship to which we’ve been called.

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