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Live Blogging Lent: With a Little Help From My Friends
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Mark D. Roberts
Part 7 of series: Live Blogging Lent Permalink for this post / Permalink for this series I doubt that John Lennon and Paul McCartney were thinking about Lent when they wrote: “With a Little Help From My Friends.” And I doubt Ringo Starr envisioned Lenten disciplines when he sang the song for the Beatles’ 1967…
Live Blogging Lent: Fasting from Fast? (Section 4)
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Mark D. Roberts
Part 6 of series: Live Blogging Lent Permalink for this post / Permalink for this series Today I finish up my Lenten reflections on Faster: The Acceleration of Just About Everything by James Gleick. Let me begin with a quotation from the book: Who knew that the inconvenience of old-fashioned letter-writing provided a buffer? Highway…
Live Blogging Lent: Fasting from Fast? (Section 3)
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Mark D. Roberts
Part 5 of series: Live Blogging Lent Permalink for this post / Permalink for this series Last Thursday I put up some comments about and excerpts from a book: Faster: The Acceleration of Just About Everything by James Gleick. On Friday I wrote about how I have experienced “faster” in my professional life, using the…
First Signs of Spring
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Mark D. Roberts
I’ve seen the first signs of spring in my yard. We’ve had plenty of rain this year, along with unusually cold weather. But a few warm days, with highs in the 60s, have encouraged some wildflowers to start blooming. Here’s what I’ve found so far: This is some sort of Daisy, in the Aster family.…
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