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The Surly Temple: Rebuilding The Temple
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Thursday, July 12, 2012. I mentioned a couple of months ago that I would have to put the blog on hold for a while, but I didn't think it would be this long. In late spring, we took on the challenge of moving into a house with one of our children and our three grandchildren. This meant buying one house, moving out of two, getting one ready for market and making the other habitable for our oldest son and his wife. I enjoy the reading and the discussions that go along with it, but I have to admit that readi...
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The Surly Temple: Dietrich and Donna
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Monday, May 21, 2012. The Queen of disco and the King of German lieder both died this week. Although I am neither a fan of disco or lieder, I have long had Pandora Channels named for both Donna Summers and Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau. I dipped heavily into both Pandora channels over the weekend as I reflected on the passing of both of these great (in very different ways) singers. Listening to the Donna Summers channel, I heard some of her hits like Last Dance. And She Works Hard For the Money. Dietrich Fisc...
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The Surly Temple: July 2012
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Monday, July 23, 2012. You Can't Fight City Hall (If they won't fight back). The rainy season was coming to an end when escrow closed on our house. The irrigation system was turned off and it took me a couple of weeks to get around to setting the timer up and get the sprinklers working. For weeks, I stewed about it, but procrastinated. Rather than deal with the problem, I wandered into the front yard every morning to hand water all the dry spots that resulted from the leak. Things came to a head a week o...
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The Surly Temple: Hey, If You're Going to Fabricate Dylan Quotes...
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Sunday, August 5, 2012. Hey, If You're Going to Fabricate Dylan Quotes. Warning: This photo is not my intellectual property. Jonah Lehrer's book Imagine: How Creativity Works. Contained a number of fabricated and compiled quotes that he attributed to Bob Dylan. A journalistic crime to be sure, but it was also a shame that the quotes offered no new insights into Bob Dylan's thought processes. Here are some quotes that offer a glimpse into the real world of Bob Dylan. And, yes I made them up. Yes, there's ...
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The Surly Temple: You Can't Fight City Hall (If they won't fight back)
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Monday, July 23, 2012. You Can't Fight City Hall (If they won't fight back). The rainy season was coming to an end when escrow closed on our house. The irrigation system was turned off and it took me a couple of weeks to get around to setting the timer up and get the sprinklers working. For weeks, I stewed about it, but procrastinated. Rather than deal with the problem, I wandered into the front yard every morning to hand water all the dry spots that resulted from the leak. Things came to a head a week o...
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The Surly Temple: March 2012
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Sunday, March 25, 2012. Pre Schooled in Prayer. Max has been a difficult child. People who know him well might guess that there were some obvious reasons for that. Those with some child development classes under their belt would say it was because he was four years old. All reasons considered, it was about as much as I could take. My daughter’s separation from their father was rough on all three of my grandchildren, but Max soon became sullen and angry much of the time, stubborn all of the time. I was su...
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The Surly Temple: February 2012
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Tuesday, February 28, 2012. O'Conner for Lent - Part one. Flannery's Bird - KJW. One of my Lenten observances this year is to read all the stories of Flannery O’Conner. I’m about five stories into the collection. The Geranium. Her first two stories, follow each other in the collection for a reason. Both stories confront the same spiritual problem from different angles. 8221; Not taking the hint, Rayber continues on his way to the barbershop. The professor is geared up to blast them with his finely honed ...
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The Surly Temple: A Quiet Period
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Sunday, May 6, 2012. Our Future Living Room. Life has taken a strange turn over the last month or so. Since Debbie and I decided to buy a house and move in with our Daughter and her three children, life has been anything but quiet. This blog, on the other hand, has been. Very. We got Robin and the kids moved in this week, in couple of weeks Debbie and I will move in as well. When the dust settles, I'll have more time to post. May 30, 2012 at 11:02 AM. Subscribe to: Post Comments (Atom). I have to sit down.
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The Surly Temple: Spot Free Rinse for the Soul
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Saturday, August 4, 2012. Spot Free Rinse for the Soul. What I'm saying this month at CatholicMom.com. One morning a few weeks ago, I opened the dishwasher and thought, “Why can’t anyone learn how to load the G@# d#@n dishwasher! 8221; Actually, I did not think that, I was reflecting on one of my father’s favorite phrases. He was a proficient blasphemer and applied this skill to a wide range of topics. Railing about the dishwasher was perhaps his ultimate passion. Subscribe to: Post Comments (Atom).
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The Surly Temple: April 2012
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Sunday, April 22, 2012. I have started packing my desk. I will be moving it from my current home office to the office/den/bedroom in our new place. It will be interesting to see how the new arrangement works out. Lippi - The Disposition. Bernini - Ecstasy of Therese. As I emptied the compartments one by one, I assessed each item, then placed it in a box to be moved, placed it in a bag to be donated or placed in a bag to thrown in the trash. (It's surprising how much of the stuff was in category three).
