Pleasant speech multiplies friends, and a gracious tongue multiplies courtesies. Let those who are friendly with you be many, but let your advisers be one in a thousand. #Sirach6 #dailyoffice

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⚓️ 1/ I've been kind of quiet on here lately, but tonight I have two prayers requests: 1. For Mark, a 34 yo who has bern in ICU for 2 weeks with viral encephalitis. He and his wife have a 2 yo son.. He grew up at my parish, and I officiated at their wedding. He can hear and is somewhat aware, but +

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I have been unpopular with myself, pacing in my small, square room. But my uncle said, “Even in a palace, you can but sleep in one room.” —Koon Woon (1949—2026) https://bit.ly/4yd0nKL

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I arise in the morning torn between a desire to improve the world and a desire to enjoy the world. This makes it hard to plan the day. EB White

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The first hour after I publish in the morning is basically me sitting here w/ my coffee and, in between word games, rereading the post, exclaiming “fuck!” and then fixing some dumb thing I typoed / misspelled / misformatted / left out / etc etc etc. What a life

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