Three Beautiful Things 12/21/08: Squirrel Dude, Still, Back in Touch

1. Snug's trainer recommended that Snug exercise more ingenuity and mental exertion when he eats his meals and suggested that feed Snug with Squirrel Dude. I introduced Snug to Squirrel Dude today and it appears that Squirrel Dude abides. Snug figured out how to shake the kibble out of the purple rubber rodent, work for it a bit, and have his dinner.

2. My experience in church worship tends pretty strongly toward the quiet and the mystical more than toward the joyful and the animated or toward the cerebrally theological. My most gratifying worship experience is stillness. I felt still this morning at the 11:00 Eucharist and again at the Lessons and Carols service at St. Mary's Episcopal Church. I wasn't always quiet, though. We sang a lovely series of Advent hymns and belting them gave me a satisfying spiritual and nostalgic release.

3. Diane and I graduated from Kellogg High School in 1972 and this evening she contacted me through Facebook. What a lovely surprise! I last saw Diane at a reunion either 11 or 16 years ago and I look forward to being back in touch and finding out what's been going on.

Tonight's My Christmas Eve

I'm in bed, ready to turn out the light and try to sleep. I'm wound up, though, similar to how I was as a boy on the night before Christmas.

I'm wound up because it's the night before driving to Kellogg.

I'm excited to see my mother and sisters and to see my friends.

I'm excited for my birthday party next Wednesday night. My sister, Carol, is hosting it and is working on getting friends of mine from the KHS class of '72 to come.

I'm excited to play poker with friends. I'm excited to go to Worley and play some slots and bemoan my bad luck with my other bad luck friends. We'll enjoy each other's company. It's a great drive from Kellogg to Worley. We can cover a lot of bullshit between the two towns and back again.

I'm excited to go to church and be around the Kellogg-Wallace Episcopalian parishioners and worship with them.

I look forward to the drive.

I look forward, maybe the most of all, to write my first series of Kellogg Bloggin posts in Kellogg itself.

I hope I can sleep tonight.