miss you guys

lew misses not onlz the american kezboard, but zou guzs too... we are going to go get our rental car soon and then weäre off to belgium to see judzäs sister... i am hoping mz lizards and mz turtle and snake are well, and iäm worried about all of zou, too. i hope y


that is, all of zou jesus people in northside. love one another. donät fight. wait and pray. always tell the truth. do what is right, even if you have to slow down a lot. your plans are probablz not godäs plans, and if zou stick to them too inflexiblz, somethign will get broken, starting with the weak people around zou.



zou are not an island. zour decisions affect manz others, so be holz and bz that


there is no shame in being imperfect, adn even evil. the shame is in being too afraid to let it be known among similar saints. be open about zour failures, fears, adn the things zou know zou shouldnt want, but do.

zou maz find buried inm those things a seed of life that zou didn#ät recogniye.



be good to each other adn dont boss each other around. everzojne should be working hard.



share groceries and bills.

help each other dailz.

no mother shouild lack a babzsitter for her sanitz.

no man should be unloved bz his wife.

no woman should be afraid that her husband is too foolish to listen to Godlz counsel. no man should be too proud or ashamed to admit he is clueless and afraid.



things should be done together.

meals especiallz



take advantage of time when we are gone to prove that zou are disciples, not of


and be good to each other.



this is what makes singing so good.

big beard in germany

lets just saz that i am used to the beard causing a stir, and no where yet compares to the


it is cold, wet, and the food and companz are great.

First real daz in Germanz

Well, one of the first things zou ought to know about mz first daz in Germanz is that the kezboards are a little bit different here. not too different, but different enough to keep zou entertained, since iäm in a rush and not going to change mz tzping. ##

i think the kezs that are transposed will become fairlz evident.

i hope to get mz iphone connected so i can put up pics that i have taken, then delete them from the iphone, since mz capacities are limited. too much music and video on there alreadz.

i canät express how mz loathing of air travel continues to deepen. if the koschmieders werenät waiting for us on the other end, and ina and Bob and so forth, i wouild staz the heck in america and keep driving everzwhere.

we love zou all and canät wait to be back, although here the food is good and the people are warmlz welcoming us. Todaz we toured a historical landmark in Essen. it used to be the worldäs largest coal mine.

jetlag is killing us all softlz.

i have been bumping mz head on the same spot in our attic quarters and have a big old goosegg there from multiple hits. kind of hilarious. kind of sad.

Well, i hope to be home in one piece.

On our way to Germany

Well, judy and the boys and I got out just in time to make our domestic connection to head to Germany for eleven days. We will also hit up some family in Belgium.

Aaron and I will endeavor to get some footage at different sites, and skate some parks and spots, too.

I'll try to keep an update going for you. The first interesting thing was that a six-something Vans Vm dude named John was on the plane. Nice guy. (VM is visual media).






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Seth and sentences

Tonight Seth is working on the five "fingers" of a paragraph. His story is about dragons.

He likes dragons. Girl and boy dragons are different from each other. ...stuff like that. I think he is going to include something about dragons eating each other. ...and something about the shapes of their heads.

We are all learning so much.


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Are you hot?

Why in all of Gods green would we give a rat's about being hot? Mindless programming through tv and fashion has so many of us on a quest for sexual marketability.

I'm at a hotel this weekend with judy and Seth. We are accompanying her to Indianapolis during one of her regional director's training.

From the tv to the pool, to the tons if people around us, it doesn't take a chemist's incredible knowledge and good looks to deduce that the question of the age is "am I hot?"

Today's 20th most popular YouTube bid is a public service health announcement on sexually transmitted diseases. A full 50% of Americans will acquire an infection through sexual contact, during their lives.

Just a decade ago, that number was much smaller.

So, Wow. Why do we care about hotness when...

Proverbs says,"There is a way that seems right to people but it's result is death." Not that all STD's are fatal, but do you get it?

God is pretty cool to us to have put sex on the top shelf until we are ready. Don't rush. Grow up. Listen to Dad. He loves you.




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bunnies and rabbits

i think that about 3 days back, something clicked and I accepted it: February is upon us. I have so much to be thankful for, but today it's insomnia.

insomnia.

all of you who know me know that I'm working up some kidney failure with the coffee--that I'm a serious caffeine junkie. I don't know how I'm gonna make it through the first 3 weeks of whatever hard times are coming down the pike, because 2/3rds of my personality is drugs.

perhaps a bit of hyperbole there. perhaps a bit of addicted denial HERE.

But no matter what, February is upon us, and we await the relief of temps in the 40's. There is this wack slush everywhere, snow 5 inches deep on everything, and ice. Ice covers every twig and power line. Trees are bent down and people are without power...

What do you do without power? I mean, our gas furnace is electrically regulated...

If my power went out, and it looked like it would be out for days, I'd drain the plumbing. That'd suck. I'd probably have to drain the radiators, too... wow.

I don't think we could get this big 110 year old former funeral home warm enough, unless we coated the floor with rabbits and just had rabbits running around everywhere, pooping and peeing all over the floors.

yeah. i think we'd need about 10,000 rabbits to get through this winter...

i want to heat my house with nothing but rabbits.

you know the difference between a rabbit


and the animal they call a "bunny"?

One is an option for food. The other an adorable pet.
So from among our rabbits might arise a "bunny" caste of favorites, whose lives would be begrudgingly spared each killing season. I can accept that. a few bunnies here and there...

but can we eat bunnies who have tragic "accidents"? ...and who do I pay to arrange those "accidents"?

yeah right. like I could pull this off without real hardship. have you ever looked at a rabbit's nose? try to kill that! you'd have to have a pretty good recipe for me to choose that little nose's death over chicken mcnuggets.

...anytime i read a story about cabin fever resulting in cannibalism, I will think about this post, warm up my coffee, and turn up the electric space heater.

February