Earth is our home: June 2006 Archives

Hurricane season is ten days old.  The first tropical storm of that season is blowing by Tampa.  It is early for a storm,  people are nervous for what this season might bring. 

This is our the beginning of our fifth season.  Two of the past four have brought severe and destructive hurricanes,  I have replaced my porch twice. 

But Tampa worries about the "big one" a direct hit with storm surge coming right into the neighborhoods. 

I am taking over a memorial service for Marjorie who is in the hospital,  day twelve.  Her surgery was before the hurricane season began!  It has been a busy time.

Marjorie and I are effectively vegetarian, we eat fish on occasion. Marjorie hasn't had beef or pork in thirty years. She doesn't do caffein. We don't moralize about it, it just part of our religious and ethical life style.

The hospital tray I just sent back included beef broth, jello, and iced tea. It also had some reconstituted grape juice with corn syrup sweetner. I sent it back.

I feed her Miso soup, and fruit juices brought from home. I think I will smuggle in an apple.

Vegetables and fruits are easier to digest.

Yesterday, she forgot that jello had bone tarrow in it, and it made her sick.

Our diet is not about moral witnessing, it is about how we live our life.

The last weeks have been the busy, as I get ready to move into an interim ministry in the Fall. 

But in the midst of the planned chaos of getting ready for the move a catastrophe.  On  Wednesday the world in which I live and move and have my being was turned upside down, and now it is a little cracked from the experience.  I am sustained by prayer, my own and many others. 

I will be back - less disoriented - there are so many things I want to write about.  But I must attend to first things first.