How's retirement? Better or worse than it was at six months?
Better! Turns out the timing of my retirement was pretty good. It was so nice of everybody to stop going to work at just about the same time I did.
- COVID 19 has become the story of the last six months of retirement. My relative inactivity in retirement has contrasted with Katy's hyper-activity at Food Finders during the same period. God bless her. The churches may have been closed, but Jesus was still out there.
- Because of the corona virus the City Council President has learned WebEx (city), GoToMeeting (county), and ZOOM (everybody else). I have learned to set the computer in just the right way so that my old campaign posters show in the background over my left shoulder. Resolution # 6-20 - "A Resolution Waiving Certain Procedures and Formalities During (a) Disaster Emergency Pursuant to I.C. 10-15-3-17 and Authorizing the President of the Common Council To Act For and On Behalf Of the Council If Required" gave me the power of a god.
- "ZOOM" Church? It feels funny. Institutional religion? Well, I don't seem to miss it as much as I thought I would. Which is probably a good thing, since it is hard to imagine what will remain of mainline Protestantism after the pandemic. Want worship? Click the link for the Washington National Cathedral. Need a sermon? Pick a podcast. One town, one church, one parson, will disappear like your local post office under Trump. The Hamilton parody that went viral on YouTube is in perfect, precocious Anglicana style. But King George never came back. There is a plague destroying the poor. Black lives matter. The republic is run by a narcissist and the oligarchs. Do we need cute?
- Because of the corona virus the City Council President has learned WebEx (city), GoToMeeting (county), and ZOOM (everybody else). I have learned to set the computer in just the right way so that my old campaign posters show in the background over my left shoulder. Resolution # 6-20 - "A Resolution Waiving Certain Procedures and Formalities During (a) Disaster Emergency Pursuant to I.C. 10-15-3-17 and Authorizing the President of the Common Council To Act For and On Behalf Of the Council If Required" gave me the power of a god.
- "ZOOM" Church? It feels funny. Institutional religion? Well, I don't seem to miss it as much as I thought I would. Which is probably a good thing, since it is hard to imagine what will remain of mainline Protestantism after the pandemic. Want worship? Click the link for the Washington National Cathedral. Need a sermon? Pick a podcast. One town, one church, one parson, will disappear like your local post office under Trump. The Hamilton parody that went viral on YouTube is in perfect, precocious Anglicana style. But King George never came back. There is a plague destroying the poor. Black lives matter. The republic is run by a narcissist and the oligarchs. Do we need cute?
- Here's the place for cute. We have a new puppy; "Darby" (Derbyshire - Cavalier King Charles spaniels should have English names.) I love my wife, so I love our dog. (That's Copper Harbor, MI in the background.) We went to Eagle Harbor this summer, but I didn't have to work because St. Peter's was closed.
- I still babysit Rowan. Isn't she cute?
