One of my rules for life- don’t sit anything down at the airport. You will not remember your phone after you pay. If you sit your wallet down in the convenient space in the bathroom stall you will not miss it until your flight has left.
Youth group tonight practicing textual interpretation using Jesse Welles Great Caucasian God and War is a God. They’re learning, it’s so good.
Finstad’s in trouble. Protests at his office have been going on consistently for the past year and people do not like him. Plus, his challenger- Jake Johnson- is a well liked public school teacher who is raising more money.
White lady in winter gear smiling with a sign that says Love Your Neighbor standing outside
Hanging outside our local mosque (by request) while they break their fast. Ice is still sniffing around. #iceoutofmn
They’ve been creeping on trailer parks constantly in southern Minnesota.
My kid mooned his Sunday School class today.
One of the best parts of my month is leading a Communion service at a local retirement home. Minnesota is burning and the faithful still show up to meet the risen Christ.
No work, no school, no spending. #dayoftruthandfreedom
#iceoutofminnesota
The weather here in southern MN turned last night. ICE has only experienced the “unseasonably warm” 30 degree days until now. Let’s see how they like a -20 windchill later this week.
Be careful, they’re out and about here today
What do we do when we find fascist propaganda at the gas pump? We tear it down. #spottediniowa
Tried to explain EMDR to my therapy skeptical aunt. I didn’t do so great. Pretty sure she thinks I’m in a cult of some sort.
Jukebox spitting out Deftones and Tool like it’s 1997.
Overstimulated! At the bowling alley
It takes month for the rock tumbler to work?!? We don’t have that kind of attention span in this house.
Followed closely by car dealerships.
Serving a church in MN is a trip. No one bats an eye at this garbage weather. Blue Christmas will commence at 6!
With 5,500 folks organizing with Isaiah to resist authoritarianism in Minneapolis. #ALightIntheStorm
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Indoor playgrounds are the third circle of hell.
Nothing like a baptism to make Sunday worship incredible.
Book cover for Everyone In This Room Will Someday Be Dead by Emily Austin. Red outlined drawing of a white woman from the neck down dressed in jeans and a yellow t shirt while holding. Blue bunny.
Just finished. Highly recommend.
Singing joyful joyful we adore thee at a funeral is incredible. Everyone
A small salvia with the last deep purple blooms of the season. Milkweed seeds are sticking to it.
Dried out, rusty brown big lead hydrangea.
Colorful fall leaves turning brown and gray as they dry up.
Making the most of a random warm day. November in the garden. 🌱#zone4b
My kid- 7- straight up spit on the chancel steps during the children’s sermon with me this morning.
Taught the kids using the podcast- When We All Get to Heaven- about MCC San Francisco in the AIDS years. Excellent way to teach about gay liberation in the Church.
Spindly plant stems stripped of seed pods beside a large pile of gathered seeds.
View of seed collecting tray lined with parchment paper. Spread out are lots of tiny seeds and a pile of stems.
Found some Culver’s Root with awesome seed heads. 🌱#nativeplants
A small child in a Dilophasaurous costume hiding behind a shrub.
Small child in a Dilophasaurous costume hiding behind a shrub from a closer angel.
Dilophasaurous costumes kid trick or treating shot from behind. Can make out the weird flaps on the side of the costume face.
The 7yo (he is autistic w/adhd and the absolute coolest) decided to hide and surprise everyone when his sister went to the door. Trick or treating was very, very slow going.
A pile of brown milkweed seed separated from the fluff.
Milkweed seed with fluff beside a split open seed pod.
The whole seed collecting set up- a split milkweed pod with seeds spilling out on a tray next to fluff and a pile of collected seeds.
I am seed rich! Butterfly weed. 🌱#nativeplants
