new Monday Musings (don’t faint)

It seems like I’ve been in a bit of a prayer rut lately. Maybe it’s the changing season; maybe it’s that I am undergoing some kind of change myself. I dunno. But I do know that I have felt an absence of something, or perhaps not so much an absence of something as a deep-seated yearning for something more.

Enter the social utilities where I play a bit throughout the day. Many of you come to the forums here at Rosary Army. Others participate in any number of opportunities to twitter, plurk, pownce, rejaw and otherwise microblog your activities throughout the day. These utilities are wonderful ways for us to connect to a community of faithful Catholics that share our lives in all the mundane and dramatic turns that make us human.

One of my plurky friends, Edgar the Mexican, announces the Angelus daily. Okay, it’s not a ringing bell, but it is a call to prayer nonetheless. Do churches outside of Rome even ring the bells anymore?

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Today is the Autumnal Equinox! ! !

Meh.

It just means it’s fall, or autumn as we pretentious few prefer to say.

I appreciate the cooler weather, although in Atlanta that brings a lot of dreary weather with it — rainy gray days. In a perverse way, I kind of enjoy it that way, but there are plenty of people who don’t, and it makes driving even more dangerous around here. What is it with Atlanta drivers and precipitation? In Miami driving through a monsoon was pretty much SOP, and in Germany snowfall was measured in meters, not quarter inches. Ha!

Anyway, I look forward to the changing leaves, even if I do have to clean up after nature’s adolescent stage.

yet another meme…

Got this one from Zina. Or at least, I finally got an explanation from Zina for what was going on at Plurk last night when I momentarily logged on and found a bunch of, well, unusual pictures.

Here are the rules:

1. Take a picture of yourself right now.
2. Don’t change your clothes, don’t fix your hair – just take a picture.
3. Post that picture with NO editing.
4. Post these instructions with the picture.

And here’s the picture:

that first cup in the morning...the rules don't say I can't come back later and delete this post!
that first cup in the morning...

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