Tag: time
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What I Always Think Of Today …
“It’s the days getting shorter, and the frosty nights,and the pumpkins big and small;it’s the season after summer, it’s before the winter,it’s the fall, it’s the fall, it’s the fall!”[from “The Fall Song,” the TV show Barney] and our daughter, who was once, and is no longer, 3 years old. Image: “Autumn in France,” 1910,…
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Last Good Days
I noticed on Saturday that it was the anniversary, liturgical yearly speaking, of our last Cajun Dinner. It was traditional for us to hold it on the Saturday before Ash Wednesday. That’s if “traditional” can be something we’ve been doing for under twenty years. Not everyone would say that, but I would. It was a…
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What I Like Most is Having Lots of Time
Someone asked me the other day whether I like teaching. I don’t really know how to answer that question. I like students. I like talking to them, I usually like listening to them when I can get them to talk to me, I like thinking about what they are thinking and why they are thinking…
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Ninth Sunday in Ordinary Time
This morning in our class we reviewed the possible readings of Matthew 12:1-14, and then tried to think about what those different readings might mean for us. I had to point out that in the first story of the pair, Jesus compares himself and his disciples to David and David’s men, and to the priests…
Matters of Interpretation 