Mark's Views, Perhaps — from behind my eyeballs
O Lord my God, shed the light of Your love on my child. Keep him safe from all illness and all injury…. I do not ask that he be wealthy, powerful or famous. Rather I ask that he be poor in spirit, humble in action, and devout in worship. Dear Lord, smile upon him.
— Johann Starck
“Humble yourselves therefore under the mighty hand of God, that he may exalt you in due time: Casting all your care upon him; for he careth for you” (1 Peter 5:6,7).
Here you go — one of our games from the other evening:
Here’s my usual reminder of how we play the game here at Ain’t Complicated:
Item 5 means do not use online sources to generate words. This rule applies only for the first two days of the game.
Remember, please: Five words per player per day.
Our lives seem to be controlled by whatever blow hits us next, sending us lurching from headache to heartache to horror story.
But we can choose how we respond emotionally.
We can choose to hold on to the One who promises never to leave us.
Source: a Barbara Johnson calendar
In following up on a WordPress tips link, I came across something that could be very useful to me in an entirely different realm:
Beat Your Filing Cabinet into Shape with a Filing System Workflow
Whether your filing system has gotten away from you or it was never really under control to begin with, you can use our handy guide to beat it back into shape.
Many people have a filing system that is largely accidental. At some point they had more papers than they could store effectively on their desk so they started squirreling them away in cabinets, drawers, and so on. In other cases you inherit a filing system, like with a new job, and an office packed with paperwork.
What can you do to tame your file cabinet and make it a useful storage and reference tool instead of a paper orphanage? You need a filing system workflow. A filing system workflow is a road map for papers to follow as they navigate through your office. We can’t provide an exact road map for you, but by answering some of the questions below and assessing your home and office needs you’ll be able to construct an effective filing system workflow of your own.
Make an Assessment: What do you want from your filing system and what does your filing system need to provide? Whether looking at your personal file cabinet in your home office or a bank of cabinets in your traditional office, before you do anything with your file system you need to hammer out what exactly it is that you want from the system and why you’re displeased with its current state enough to be reading a guide to beating it into shape.
There’s much more to the article (of course), so you’ll just have to go to it if it seems you need it.
At the top of this post I intimated I really needed it. Well, look at these photos and you be the judge: Read it all
“…for landing at Port 5 East.”
“Outbound Light B23, please use Port 2 North.”
Isn’t this a control tower?
Sorry about the distortion; the shot was taken at long range with the camera cranked up to its full 12X zoom.
To see the above photo in its context, click it.
So, anyway, if those things aren’t control towers for the bee hives, what are they?!
Production primers of some sort?
Sun-powered pre-heaters of some other sort?
Solar nurseries?
I really do want to know!
(And for those of you wanting to know, this photo was taken from our car by Andrew; the location is the north side of Oregon Hwy 211 between Woodburn and Molalla near Kropf Rd — aka Canby-Marquam Highway — about two miles from Yoder.)
So I get up from my morning “nap” and my brother-in-law Wesley Yoder is waiting to invite me to Shari’s for birthday coffee.
I agree to meet him there for a while.
So after filling up with fuel at Safeway, I went over to Shari’s.
I found Wes at the counter and took my place next to him, ordered coffee, and set about to read the newspaper. And drink coffee.
And take some pictures. 🙄
I’m about to leave, so we posed.
From there I went across the highway to BiMart to get some greeting cards, including an anniversary card for Russell and Shari — today’s their third anniversary as well as my fiftieth birthday and Shari’s sister’s birthday! I also got a print of the second photo above for Wes.
And while I was there, I took this photo:
Then I went over to Coastal Farm to buy a bag of chicken feed. And next door to Mega Foods (until recently, Shop’n Kart) for some bananas.
There I saw a neat old hot rod (I guess that’s what it is):
On my way home, as I was leaving Woodburn, I set my camera on the car’s dash and set the timer to take a photo. Here’s the result:
This evening was my second birthday meal, the first being on Sunday over at Madras with Luke and LaVay and Michayla and Lukes’ children. This evening, Russell and Shari were here as were my folks, Aunt Rosie, Miguel and Karen, and Brandon and Karina. (Wes arrived last night.)
Turning fifty was…well…not bad. I should do it more often.
PS: I’m just going to post this now. I think some things need fixing but it’s too late to do so now. Maybe tomorrow.
Good ole Rip Van Winkle dozed off…and overslept.
Well, I didn’t oversleep but I did go to sleep in my forties and awake in my fifties.
😯
I guess I should find someone to pinch to see if I’m awake or still dreaming. (One of my transition dreams showed my Facebook account with 100 friend requests.)
Anyway, I went outside and took a self-portrait:
Yeah. Click for a larger image. But I wanted you to see the small thumbnail…and tell me if there’s a sign in the sky for me. (No, no, no! I’m not turning mystical or contemplative or any such thing!!)
I thought it an interesting atmospheric display.