I was out in the back yard just days after my last post and realized I’d been mistaken to think there were no bears out yet. The tell-tale droppings confirmed it. This also confirmed in my mind the need to clarify and expand on responses to ‘bears’ and when it really is OK to bark, […]
I woke to the dog barking the other night… not his ‘bear bark’ (the bears aren’t up yet from their long winter’s nap) just a non-committal, think-I-might-see-something-in-the-moonlight-and-I’m-not-sleeping-so-well-anyway, kind of bark… annoying! And useless, and worse than useless; it was keeping me from my beauty-sleep. A watchdog is a valuable entity when there is incipient danger. […]
We’re having a winter get-away in the land of let’s pretend…where darkness is better than light, where life begins at nightfall, where spending is gaining and when the lights go on it’s closing time…In the excesses of this artificial world are a thousand chances to pretend, some more innocent than others. Is pretending all that […]
“To them that have obtained like precious faith with us through the righteousness of God and our Saviour Jesus Christ…” [continuing remarks on dialoging with non-believers about faith…] Heady stuff this business of dialoging about faith and the lack thereof. It’s easy to get sucked into the vortex of railing accusations, unfounded allegations and inflammatory […]