I don't tell people how much bitcoin I own but when it hits $100k there will be signs https://www.jetpens.com/Pelikan-Classic-M200-Fountain-Pen-Orange-Delight-Broad-Nib-Limited-Edition/pd/41225

Easter treat I read about these books in The Marginalian newsletter last week and they arrived today. (

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The Lost Words: An Illustrated Dictionary of Poetic Spells Reclaiming the Language of Nature

From acorn to wren, a vibrant encyclopedia of enchantments reweaving our broken web of belonging with the rest of nature.

They were written in response to the omission from a popular children's dictionary of once common words from the natural world in favor of words like "pixel" and "broadband". #poetry #watercolor #touchgrass Truly magnificent books.

Audible is not ideal since you don't "own" the content.... But you do get a monthly credit that can be spent as you wish. Books go on sale a lot. Most importantly, the quality of the readers is far and away better than other places I've tried. Reading aloud is truly an art form and is valuable for the listener... at least in my case!

Alleluia, Alleluia Those who come to the tomb asking "how shall we roll away the stone?" shall be eternally gladdened by the song "he is not here, he is risen" Alleluia, Alleluia #Godstr

Living stations of the cross Good Friday Kansas City, Kansas

What is it about a perfectly silent church that causes people to want to clear their throats as noisily and juicy as possible

I've been listening to old homilies, mostly as a self-mortification. This one from three years ago on this weekend's readings (specifically, the sacrifice of Isaac) feels like a lifetime ago, and delivered by a different priest.

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ACCEPT NO SUBSTITUTES - Homily for the 2nd Sunday of Lent by Father Nick Blaha Homily Cast

Take, Lord, and receive all my liberty,my memory, my understanding,and my entire will,All I have and call my own.You have given all to me.To you, L...

COVENANT AND HOPE - A Lenten reflection on Joseph and the darkness of faith

I was struck a few years ago by a conversation with a friend of mine, not a believer, but married to one. In answer to the question "what seems most intuitively true and certain to you?" he responded, "Evil is real." To that we say, Merry Christmas! Here's a little reflection on the prologue of John's Gospel, the Scripture reading for today's feast. THE PLAN WAS MADE FLESH Homily for Christmas Day #v4v Support using Bitcoin⚡️ on any Podcasting 2.0 app

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THE PLAN WAS MADE FLESH - Homily for Christmas Day by Father Nick Blaha Homily Cast

Delivered at Christ the King, Kansas City, KS

Media file: #christmas #incarnation #grownostr

"HOPE AND WORK - Homily for the First Sunday of Advent"

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HOPE AND WORK - Homily for the First Sunday of Advent by Father Nick Blaha Homily Cast

Delivered at Christ the King Church, Kansas City, KS

#advent #catholic #christian #grownostr

OK I need some data crunching help. Excel gurus, PRESENT ARMS Problem: calculate the future date at which smoking cigarettes daily may resume, such that the reduced life expectancy—should I continue smoking till death—is equal to or less than the life expectancy at that age. It’s easy to find the date I’m expected to die given my birth year and average life expectancy (5 November 2057). Trouble is, how can I backdate the resumption of smoking, so that my average life expectancy reduction from smoking will be less than the average years of life remaining… …or, given how pleasant it is, even EXTEND my life, according to the dictum, “if it’s good TO you, it must be good FOR you”? How do I calculate the exact date I can look forward to, assuming each cigarette diminishes life expectancy by 11 minutes on average (according to this data: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC1117323/) Just looking for some light at the end of the tunnel here, folks… #plebchain #asknostr

This past Sunday, the Gospel in the Catholic lectionary was the parable of the five wise and five foolish virgins. I was struck by the whole idea of having oil for the wedding party's arrival. Was it crucial to have on hand? or was the errand to fetch more in the middle of the night a distraction? In a sense, it doesn't matter to the parable's meaning; what matters is the failure to make preparations so that no such errands trivial or otherwise, will drag us away from what's essential. At Mass last weekend, a man I'd never seen before was behaving erratically and became unresponsive, twisting and contorting himself into weird positions. I called the police after trying to find out what was going on with him, to no avail. While they too suspected drugs, the paramedics discovered very quickly that he was diabetic and had extremely low levels of blood sugar. Within a minute and a half of getting an IV drip into his arm (a mighty struggle as he was a pretty athletic guy) he was back to normal and answering questions lucidly. The sullen, trippy attitude was completely gone and I had a pleasant conversation with him while driving him home, snacking on cake from the baptism party downstairs. But during those 15 minutes of dangerously low blood sugar, some pretty raunchy stuff came out of the guy's mouth. Ridiculous stuff, and we all had a chuckle over it, but it got me thinking... were I to be in that position, what would be my uninhibited flow of speech? Would I be embrassed later to learn what I'd said? It struck me as an apt way of approaching the meaning of the "flask of oil" Christ highlights as gaining us access to the kingdom of God. The "oil" that we can't do without is the daily process of conversion and the practice of virtue aided by the grace of the Holy Spirit. Without it, we will be caught empty-handed and scrambling when the Lord is passing by. Only through that daily struggle to deepen our interior conformity to Christ will we be able to stand watch and not be left out in the cold. We won't be able to fake it or fool anyone or talk our way out of the serene judgment of the Risen One. In the light of that countenance, we will be our own most precise and comprehensive judge. What we speak in our own defense or condemnation will be the pure radiant truth. Readiness is all.

So clearly I'm missing something. #Amethyst no longer has the ability to connect to a wallet for native zaps? I had it all set up and now it's gone, and I can't find where to add it again. Very confused. #asknostr

Android 14 broke my wireless and my Amethyst, I just want to go back to when things were groovy.

#Amethyst crashing hard and fast on Android 14 update of grapheneOS @Vitor Pamplona