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ABOVE Committing to the perfect tree.

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Christmas tree cutting
Grove City

The crazy people were out front of the house to see us bring the tree safely inside. We know they are from the World Harvest Church (thus confirming that they are indeed, crazy people), and suspect that they are studying to be missionaries. They seem to have chosen our block to practice on each Saturday.

My (not so charitable) suspicion is that we live in an urban area and so they assume we must be poor. I don't wish to slight their generosity, but if we accepted their gifts (white bread, wash cloths, a listing for free benefits from "Toys for Tots."), it would be for the purpose of taking them to a charity that could distribute them competently to those who need them.

Trying to give them to us doesn't do it. And why is this not obvious?

 

 

 


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Capital University Chapel Choir Christmas Festival
Angels We Have Heard
Mees Hall

My favorite: A wonderful piece with a beautiful solo above it (though we couldn't make out the words of the solo) from the Brazilian Psalm.

The two narrators were probably the weakest part of the program. A young girl (third grade?) sang a long solo to one piece and did very well, staying poised even through the unexpected lack of a working microphone.

Mom joined the choir onstage for the traditional closing: A Beautiful Savior (arr. Christensen) and the Doxology with sevenfold Amen.

Dessert afterwards in Bexley, a delicious cheesecake with raspberries over.

 

ABOVE Rick goes fishing.

Gameworks
To end the work week

Gallery | MORE

 

Closing down in the neighborhood
Final Amen will be Sunday for shinking congregation | Dispatch | (Subscription required)

St. Paul's Episcopal, 787 E. Broad St.

Closing has been on the minds of members for some time, but the decision didn’t come until a meeting of the mission council in September, Senior Warden Mike Harbin said.

‘‘It will be a great loss to me, but we believe it’s the right decision," he said. ‘‘Since we made the decision, it’s almost a relief for some people."

Neither finances nor pressure from the diocese forced the 165-year-old congregation’s move, Harbin said. Its once-great wealth was managed so that the church could have continued operations at its current level for three more years, he said.

Declining membership, down to an average of 12 attending each Sunday, placed too much of a load on the time and talents of the remaining few, Harbin said.

‘‘It’s very difficult for that few to feel uplifted," he said. ‘‘Visitors are overwhelmed by how empty the building is."

...

In a letter ..., the mission council said: ‘‘It is critical to do this while we have a sense of loss, and therefore the ability as individuals to be able to choose new church homes; rather than to wait until there is such despair and resignation that there is no possibility of resurrection but only of disenfranchisement. Thus we will have our closure at the beginning of Advent with new birth for each of us in new churches of our individual choices at Christmas."

 

 

 


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Choir rehearsal
Bexley afterwards

 

 

 


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My kingdom for a copy editor
Quibbles

"I can't tell you how often I run into security-conscience small businesses who insist on a good Internet firewall, but have an unencrypted wireless router in the middle of their networks."

So writes Brad Patten.

Their consciences must be telling them to share the bandwidth with all those poor unconnected souls around them.

 

And: unless it came as a lease from God, I doubt that the downtown building "literally" received a new lease on life.

I believe that's actually what's known as "figuratively."

 

 

 

 


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A slow day for driving
There was the driver who thought blinkers would make it OK to drive 25 on I-670. There were the two streetsweepers followed by two large dump-trucks (I don't know what they were for) driving 10 mph down a long stretch unpassable of road.

And then there were the elephants. Ringling Bros. and Barnum & Bailey Circus came to Nationwide Arena today, and I managed to get stuck on Neil Avenue when the sheriff blocked traffic to let the elephants (all many of them) walk across the street, trunk to tail.

And all without a camera -- that was the worst of it.

So instead, you'll have to go see the Dispatch photos:
Pounding the pavement | Dispatch | (Subscription required)

 

 

 


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ABOVE Shrimp pasta for dinner.

Unexpected deadline
Business Blueprints was supposed to go out Next Monday.

Until I arrived at work this morning.

Suddenly it had to go to press Today.

This made for a hectic Monday.

 

 

 

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Posted galleries from Franklin Park Conservatory
Desert
Mountain
Courtyards
Tropical
Palm Room

Orchids

 

Donatos
Pizza for dinner.

 

In search of the perfect couch ... continued
Tried Groll's in Waldo.

 

First Sunday of Advent
More preaching on the End of the World as we Know It

A popular topic this month.

 

 

 

 


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