Cutting right to the chase for this week’s Sleeping with Bread/Flashback Friday post:
For what am I least grateful this past week?
My attitude earlier in the week in that I was feeling that I was spinning my wheels, and so not to focus so much on the negative as I did then, I’ll go right to the next question:
For what am I most grateful this past week?
Connecting with people both online and IRL (in real life), including:
- fellow Catholics IRL, as our church had a parish renewal workshop this past Wednesday.
- fellow Catholics online, such as Jennifer, aka The Literate Housewife, and Rebecca, aka TheBookLady. oops, I mean Cathy Lees of okie-booklady. I already talked about Jennifer earlier this week, but Rebecca Cathy connected with me on GoodReads yesterday, asking my opinion about favorite Catholic books. (Rebecca was kind enough to send me a direct message via Twitter this morning, Feb. 27, to let me know of my mistake, Cathy goes by Booklady on GoodReads and I made the jump to the wrong conclusion; my apologies to both ladies, but both have blogs worth following).
- Protestants online and off, especially Tara Lamont Eastman, whom I met through Sleeping with Bread, and other parishioners from First Lutheran Church of Jamestown, N.Y., who are participating in an online discussion centered around the book Holy Conversations.
- Muslims, especially Jaffer Maniar, who has commented here a few times and on my other blog, Unfinished Rambler.
- Atheists, agnostics and the like, especially Chris Cameron who has the blog Angry Seafood, which I highlighted for the past month over at my blog Unfinished Rambler (here is why).
So what are you least grateful for/most grateful for this past week?
That particular time, INXS and Iggy Pop, Belly (remember them?!)…there were more, but my memory is awful. Sadly, WHFS was taken off the air and replaced with talk radio, maybe even a Spanish radio station. It boggles the mind, because THEN it was the only alt/rock station out there. I went to Merriweather Post Pavilion and it may have been for an Earth Day festival. I remember the Spin Doctors played…..
The Stereo MCs! Wow. Back in 93 {or maybe 92?} I went to the HFStival, which was a music festival hosted by an alt rock radio station out in Maryland. Anyway, I saw The Stereo MCs there. They were pretty good. It was a rainy day, there was tons of mud and tie dyed tshirts….
Anyway. I am most grateful for the wonderful conversations I had with friends this week and the much needed time to myself. I am least grateful for the bastard transmission in my van.
Speaking of atheists…;-)
HFStival, haven’t heard of that one, but it sounds like it would have been cool. Who were some of the other groups there? I remember festivals like that: back in around the same time or maybe a little before that, went to Earth Day Festival at the Merriweather (sp?) Post Pavilion with Ziggy Marley and the Melodymakers, the Indigo Girls and groups of the like…talk about tie dyed t-shirts. They were everywhere there.
Thank you Unfinished Person !
I am thank God for giving me such a good company of people – over the internet – where otherwise you may never know what kind of evil people lurk waiting for you.
I am grateful to have made your acquaintance too…I think it was through Kathy and/or Jenn. So far, you seem to be all right.