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Spending the day in Des Moines at a high school speech and debate tournament. Judged a few of the early rounds. (My first time judging!) My daughter is in the finals for extemporaneous speech at the moment. 🤞 A fun day.
2025 Reads: Holy Hurt by Hillary L. McBride, PhD 📚
“When we set down what we had to believe in order to survive, what felt like our entire lives, that’s when we begin to find ourselves again.”
- Hillary McBride adapting Matthew 16:25.
Phew, that’s a word.
When you’re on a keto diet but your Indian co-workers host a Diwali potluck… keto can wait until tomorrow. Good gracious that was tasty.
I think maybe the cold front that came through overnight marks the actual start of the chilly part of autumn for us here in Iowa. Low 40’s this morning and quite breezy. More of the same all week. Time to start cleaning up outside and prepping for winter.
Well, Nebraska looks pretty bad tonight. Can’t make stops on defense, can’t protect the QB. Minnesota ran a 10-minute drive to go up 14-6 and then the Huskers go 3-and-out. Weak. Just weak.
Just when I think I’m not that much of a nerd, I scroll through my podcast queue and decide that what I really want to listen to is the next session of Miroslav Volf’s Gifford Lectures.
( Part 1 here: faith.yale.edu/media/unc… )
2025 Reads: Let Your Heartbreak Be Your Guide: Lessons in Engaged Contemplation by Adam Bucko 📚
I haven’t really kept up with Sufjan Stevens in a long time, but this album of piano music (“Reflections”) is a lovely soundtrack for my morning.