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OK, so they’re only light flurries, but the very fact that it’s flakes and not a bit of mist is noteworthy.
As is the forecast for tomorrow and Monday: 57, then 63.

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Inspired by Doc Smartypants, here is my inaugural Friday Ten:

David Brown

David Epstein

Jeffrey Kofman
Anderson Cooper
David Muir

Jim Sciutto

Dan Harris

Terry Moran

Jake Tapper

Matt Lauer

(And if you think, "Ten what?", well, the only point is that there are ten of them. That’s all the guidance there is from the Doc. But these are in fact ten of something very specific.)

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John Scalzi over at Whatever has a book out, The Rough Guide to Sci-Fi Movies, which includes a canon of 50 science fiction films. He posts several times about the book (the link is to the first post), and in one he mentions the meme of taking the list and bolding the films you’ve seen. [...]

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I went shape-note singing for the second time in a week today. Last Monday I went to the public sing hosted by Norumbega Harmony in Newton, and this afternoon I went to the monthly sing at St. John’s Church in Charlestown. This hymn cut right to the heart of my condition.
ColumbusMercer’s Cluster, 1823/Columbian Harmony, 1829
Oh, [...]

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In a previous post I described the knitting retreat I’m leading at Woolman Hill Nov. 4-6. (You can download a flyer with registration form there.)
I don’t have a very firm plan yet, but it will probably go something like this:
Friday evening:

collecting ourselves in the present with some silence
invite people to take out their knitting (if [...]

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These photos were taken here (Midway Wells doesn’t seem to be searchable, but that’s that intersection there; you’ll have to zoom out a few notches to be able to see satellite photos).

And these were taken from here.

And of course, I grew up here, just west of the dunes.

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Check out this UCC blogger: Chuck Currie: Beth Stroud And The Call To Ministry. He comments on a sermon preached by Beth Stroud, a lesbian United Methodist minister currently appealing the revocation of her credentials. Here’s a snippet. (He includes a link to the whole sermon.)
It’s taken me a while to learn that my calling [...]

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I flew home to California to see my family at the end of last week, and I took a few pictures to give an idea of where I grew up. Here are a few pictures taken just a few miles west of my parents’ home (they live in town).

This photo was taken driving east [...]

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