Archive for August, 2008
RCA/CRC Hymnal
The meetings are over for a few months, but the work is just getting off the ground. In any case, it’s fair to say that the project is “up and running!” If everything goes well, there will be a joint hymnal published by the RCA and the CRC in 2013!
I suppose some of […]
A Quick note on the Hymnal Committee
Some of you know that I’m spending Monday and Tuesday attending meetings for an upcoming hymnal (to be) published (in 2013) jointly by the Reformed Church in America and the Christian Reformed Church. In 150 years since our split, we have never participated in such a project together and are now in the early stages […]
Read More..>>A Blog Secret
Occasionally I have people ask me about the blogs I read. I try to keep up on about 35-40 of them at any given time. I used to look at people who did that and think they were crazy - flipping back and forth from blog to blog… spending immense amounts of times simply figuring […]
Read More..>>My New Lucet
I figured some of you might not know what a lucet looks like. Well, here it is:
You see it surrounded by several lucet cords.. The curl that extends on the right-hand side of the picture is made with a double-strand of worsted weight yarn. The bigger “chunk” on the left-hand side is a chord made […]
Read More..>>JJ worked today so Sophia and I had the perfect opportunity to head down the the Allegan fairgrounds for the Michigan Fiber Festival (warning, their website isn’t very good). I attended the festival a couple of years ago but didn’t attend last year so I was anxious to see how it has changed over the […]
Read More..>>8 for every 5
Can anyone confirm or deny the stat I read today? It was that, during the olympic’s ceremonies last night NBC showed 8 minutes of commercials for every 5 minutes of the opening ceremonies. It sure felt like it, but I’d love it if someone could point me to a link or an organization I can […]
Read More..>>NBC - You Ought to be Ashamed
Even as I write this, I may be witnessing China’s triumph over western commercialism. The opening ceremonies of the Olympics are being broadcast with near-constant interruption by NBC — it’s jarring. The commercials are not well balanced and they are dramatically NOT beautiful, especially when compared to the opening ceremonies.
The opening ceremonies, on the other […]
Michigan Fiber Festival (Allegan)
I don’t know much about the few of you that actually read this blog (other than the couple who comment on a regular basis and have blogs of their own - which I follow). I think, however, that those of you who may consider attending a fiber festival tend to live too far away to […]
Read More..>>Finally, some sense!
Imagine what would happen if you or I were involved in a legal case and instructed (on bond) that any kind of travel for business required 48-hour notice to a court representative. Of course, it wouldn’t happen. For mere mortals like us, there would be no travel… Not with 48-hour notice… not at all.
The dear […]
Beautiful as Heaven, Deadly as Hell
A month (or so) ago, a few people from our church decided to do some landscaping around the parsonage. For this, we are incredibly thankful! The parsonage is 50-ish years old, but has never had much landscaping done to it and the work they did in the course of a day practically transformed […]
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