Share Your World 2016 Week 42

I have some time to join SHARE YOUR WORLD WEEK 42  this week. I have loved Cee’s 5 weekly questions pretty much since the beginning of my time here in the blogosphere.

If you are new to blogging why don’t you click the link above and traipse on over to Cee’s place. Her challenges are some fun.

Here are this week’s questions and my answers

If you wanted to de-clutter where you live, what room / space would you start with?  (And why, if you’re feel like admitting to it.)

I have to do some of this this afternoon. I will start in the work room. I managed to de-clutter a few months ago and as always the workroom has become cluttered once again with all the junk I haven’t had time to put away over the last several weeks.

If you want to remember something important, how do you do it (sticky note on the fridge, string around your finger, etc.), and does it work?

I live by my daily planner. If it doesn’t get into the planner it doesn’t happen. As long as it makes the daily schedule though it usually gets done even if that does not happen in the exact hour it is placed in.

If you could create a one room retreat just for yourself, what would be the most important sense to emphasize:  sight (bright natural light, dim light, etc.), hearing (silence, music, fountain, etc.), smell (candles, incense, etc), touch (wood, stone, soft fabrics, etc.), or taste (herbal tea, fresh fruit, etc.)?

I guess that would depend on what I am trying to retreat from. I guess I will consider this a retreat from busyness and the noise of the office. I will say the most important consideration is sound. Music must be soft or I must have silence and solitude in order to recoup. I try to do three mini retreats a day (about 10 minutes a piece). Silence and solitude are absolutely essential to these times. Here is the type of music I sometimes listen to.

 

If you could interview one of your great-great-great grandparents, who would it be (if you know their name) and what would you ask?

I would like to interview my great great and so forth grandfather Lorenzo Tandy who was a minister in my region during the late 1800’s. I would ask him about his call to ministry and about how he carried that call out in his time.

Bonus question:  What are you grateful for from last week, and what are you looking forward to in the week coming up? 

I am grateful that we had a very successful art show here at Cornerstone. This week I am looking forward to being a little quieter.

Share Your World Week #34 2016

Well I am back and doing back to back Share Your world blogs because I am that far behind the curve.

Week 33 was so much fun I decided to do week 34 right away.

Here are Cee’s questions for this week and my answers:

What is your favorite comfort snack food?

I love macaroni & Cheese…no pizza…no Hostess Suzie Q’s…no Apple Fritters…no grilled cheese sandwiches…no COFFEE!!! Yes COFFEE!

 

Is the paper money in your possession right now organized sequentially according to denomination and with the bills right side up and facing the same way?

Absolutely not! That would be a miscarriage of wallet justice. The bills I have left over from lunch yesterday are stuffed hodge-podge in with all the receipts from last week. That way when I drive and sit on my wallet my leg can fall to sleep properly.

If you were a mouse in your house in the evening, what would you see your family doing? 

Reading. Watching TV and forgetting to put the butter away so that I could leave my little mouse teeth tracks in it at midnight (We have lost more sticks of butter this way).

Would you rather not be able to read or not be able to speak?

Speaking is overrated (said the preacher). I want to be able to retain my ability to read.

Bonus question:  What are you grateful for from last week, and what are you looking forward to in the week coming up?  

I am so grateful for the opportunity I had to lead worship at Special Touch REACH New England’s chapter meeting this weekend and also to lead worship at Cornerstone Church.

This week our church begins its fall growth groups. I am excited to see this discipleship season begin.

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Share Your World Week #33 2016

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My participation in challenges has been exceedingly spotty in recent weeks. That is not for lack of trying but for lack of timing. The rhythm of life has been a bit catywhompus and I find myself in a constant state of readjustment to new events and “opportunities” that are arising.

This week I have posted my anchor blogs through Wednesday and I have chosen to come in to the office on a day when I am “not in” to do some creative writing. Answering challenges is a great warm up for my writer’s brain which feels a bit rusty just now from lack of use though definitely not from lack of material. I have been living life large and storing away a vast sea of experiences as fodder for the blank page.

But I digress. It is time to SHARE MY WORLD.

This is the challenge where our hostess, Cee, shares five questions and we, her contributors, answer them, thus, sharing with you, the readers, our world!

Click the underlined link to find all of Cee’s contributors and their worlds.

Here are the questions from week 33 and my answers:

Would you travel into outer space?

Of course I would! What an opportunity that would be and I bet there are fewer meetings in outer space meaning more free time.

Which country/city in the world (that you have never been to) would you most like to visit and why?

I would love to visit Reykjavik. I have flown into Keflavik airport before but this is all I saw of Iceland.

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Iceland

 

What could you do to breathe more deeply today?

Take and hour to just listen for the voice of God.

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Complete this sentence:  This creamy peanut butter sandwich could really use some …

Chunk spaghetti sauce.

Bonus question:  What are you grateful for from last week, and what are you looking forward to in the week coming up? 

I am so grateful to have been able to meet with the staff of Calvary Christian Church in Lynnfield MA for a training on how to run a large church. I am also truly grateful for the hospitality of Pastor and Mrs. Schmidt who took such wonderful care of us while we were among them.

This week I am looking forward to the Toy Town Fall Fest at Ingleside. We are celebrating the acquisition of this property as a community recreation/ makerspace.

 

 

 

 

Share Your World 2016 Week #32

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Yep! It’s time to SHARE MY WORLD AGAIN! Those of you who read Lillie-Put regularly know that Share Your World is one of the challenges I participate in almost weekly.

For those of you new to Lillie-Put, Share Your World, is a challenge put out by Cee Neuner, a blogger from Portland Oregon. Every week she asks us five questions and in answering them we all share our worlds!

Join in the fun by clicking the underlined link above and sharing your own world with Cee!

Here are this week’s questions and my answers:

If you could have an endless supply of any food, what would you get?

Pizza, most definitely pizza

What is the worst thing you ate this last recently?

I made chicken a week ago. It was so dry it turned to dust in my mouth. Blecch!

You are comfortable doing nothing? For long stretches of time?

I call myself to center down several times a day. Honestly I find it hard to find time to do nothing but the act of coming away from activity to meditate and pray has become an essential part of my attempt at creating effectiveness. That said I am not generally someone who does nothing for long blocks of time. It might be fun to do more of that from time to time.

List of Jobs You Think You Might Enjoy: Even if you aren’t thinking about a career change, it can be fun to think of other jobs you might enjoy.

owner/ manager of a bed & breakfast

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professional movie critic

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archaeologist

 

Bonus question:  What are you grateful for from last week, and what are you looking forward to in the week coming up?

I am grateful I got to talk to all my children and my sister last week . This week I am looking forward to performing the wedding ceremony for two of my former students.

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Share Your World 2016 Week 31

I shared last week’s world yesterday and today I am sharing this week’s world with you all.

I know that statement might have confused some of you. Let me explain. Every week Cee Neuner asks five questions of her contributors. In answering them we all share our worlds. I have been a little behind so this week I am sharing my world not once but twice.

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NOW SHOULD THE SHARING OF TWO WORLDS IN ONE WEEK NOT BE QUITE ENOUGH YOU CAN CLICK HERE AND FIND TWENTY OR THIRTY MORE WORLDS TO SHARE IN! 

Who knows maybe you will even  do a little sharing of your own!

Here are the questions and my answers

What is your favorite part of the town/city you live in.  And what Country do you live?

I live in the state of Of Massachusetts on the Eastern coast of the U.S. I love the forests of our town and the back roads.

Would you rather wear clown shoes every day or a clown wig every day?

Clown shoes not even a question. A wig would make my head sweat.

Which way does the toilet paper roll go? Over or under?

I have been told there are rules about such things. I have never taken the time to learn what they are.  I count myself blessed to have toilet paper and to have a toilet to put it in.

What do you do to make a living or during the day?  If you are retired what mostly occupies your day? Or if you are a student what are you studying?

I am a minister on staff at a growing church. My portfolio includes: Music and the arts and discipleship.

Bonus question:  What are you grateful for from last week, and what are you looking forward to in the week coming up?  

I am grateful that I had such a wonderful vacation. I am very glad that I will soon be going home from my first full day back at the office for a nap before my meeting tonight!

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Share Your World 2016 Week #30

I am still running behind but doing the vacation catch up thing. So here is my share your world answers for last week.

You can find a slew of world sharers by clicking THIS LINK.

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Here are the questions and my answers.

Do you prefer a bath or shower?

I love a good hot soak every once in a while but mostly I am just a quick shower type of guy. I hardly have time to run a bath never mind soak in it!

If you had an unlimited shopping spree at only one store, which one would you choose? Why?

I would choose an unlimited shopping spree at Amazon.com. That way I do not have to leave home and I can stop to make a sandwich when I get tired of spending money. 🙂

If you could be one age for the rest of your life, what age would that be?

I would choose to be seventeen as long as I could overcome the teenage angst and sense of powerlessness I felt. Having the body of a seventeen year old without any of the personality draw backs that come from lack of wisdom and experience would be just awesome!

List at least five movies that cheer you up.

I love triumph stories. Here are a few I have recently seen that sent me away saying, “THAT WAS AWESOME!”

Bonus question:  What are you grateful for from last week, and what are you looking forward to in the week coming up? 

I am grateful that I had a great vacation (details to come in future posts) and this week I am looking forward to getting back into the swing of things at work.

 

Share Your World 2016 Week #29

It is time to Share My World Again. Since this week’s questions haven’t gone up yet and since I was on vacation last week and not blogging for a few days here are last week’s questions and my answers.

What is the perfect pizza?

The perfect pizza is BBQ chicken, But that is today. Yesterday I would have said Hawaiian.

What is your favorite time of day?

My favorite time of day is that hour just before sunrise when the streets are quiet and the world has yet to wake up.

Show us two of your favorites photographs?  The photos can be from anytime in your life span.  Explain why they are your favorite.

My favorite photos change almost as frequently as my idea of the perfect pizza. I will show you two of my newest favs and they are tied directly to an adventure I took with my daughter Amanda on Saturday.

The tardus was visiting Montague MA on the same day Amanda and I went on our latest Book Crawl.

Amanda and I love to go shopping for used books. It is such an adventure. This time I bought five to her one.

Complete this sentence:  I’m looking forward to…. 

The photography walk I am about to take out the new Northeast Walking Path.

Bonus question:  What are you grateful for from last week, and what are you looking forward to in the week coming up? 

I am grateful that I have been on vacation. I am looking forward to another full week of it!

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Share Your World 2016 Week 26

Well it has been weeks and weeks since I have shared my world. At least that is how it feels. For those of you who may have forgotten how this works, every week Cee Neuener. Share Your World’s Hostess, asks five questions. In answering them we (her contributors) share our worlds with you (our readers).

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YOU CAN MEET ALL OF CEE’S SHARERS HERE.

Now here are her questions and my answers:

What’s your most memorable (good or bad) airplane flight?

I love flying. I think my favorite flight though was aboard Iceland Air heading to the Netherlands. Flying into Keflavik was simply amazing. It felt like I was flying over the moon.

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How many bones, if any, have you broken?

I am one of those fortunate few who have never broken a bone (where’s the nearest piece of wood to knock on). I have sprained my ankle quite a few times badly enough to need crutches but no breaks.

If you had your own talk show, who would your first three guests be? (guest can be dead, alive, famous or someone you just know) Adam (first question “What were you thinking?”),  Elijah ( First question, “Was the chariot of fire hot?”), Jeremiah ( First question, “How did you keep it together when  no one would listen?”)

Make a Currently List: What are you reading, watching, listening to, eating, needing, wanting, and missing right now?

I am currently reading: Psalms, Nearer To God: How To Pray With Prophetic Power,  The Floating Island

I am currently watching:

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This very moment I am listening too:

Needing, wanting, missing? Nothing I am content and replete.

Bonus question:  What are you grateful for from last week, and what are you looking forward to in the week coming up? 

I am grateful that I got to preach on Sunday last…you can find the sermon in excerpted form on my sermons page entitled “RUN?”

I am looking forward to going to the zoo on July 4th with my daughter and trying out my new camera.

Share Your World 2016 Week 23

Holy Cow! I posted Share Your World week 21 last night thinking that was the latest, and here I am reading posts from week 23. Am I out of the loop or what?!? Well it’s time to come out of the past and step into the present. So here for your reading pleasure is my time of sharing my answers to Cee’s week 23 questions. Maybe sometime in the future I will go back and answer questions from week 22 just for fun!

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What was one of your first moneymaking jobs (other than babysitting or newspaper delivery)?

My father owned a diner in our hometown; So one of my first jobs was dish washing, but dad was big on personal responsibility and earning your own way and so I actually started delivering papers when I was nine. I had 126 daily papers. I think that job in some ways was harder than dish washing. I have to say I loved paper delivery so much I went back to it as an adult and ran two circulation offices before becoming a Pastor.

What is your favorite month of the year?

November.

What three things in nature do you find most beautiful?

I love the ocean, waterfalls and gardens.

List at least five of your favorite spices? (excluding salt and pepper)

I am a big fan of basil. I love oregano and garlic. I also love cumin and corriander.

Bonus question:  What are you grateful for from last week, and what are you looking forward to in the week coming up? 

Since I already used the vacation thing on week 21 I guess I will have to get a little more specific. I am so glad I got to read two books in the fantasy series I am currently working my way through.

This week I am looking forward to meeting with my friends from the Winchendon Enhancement Comittee and beginning to plan the Fall Fest and the programming that will go on the soon to be acquired Ingleside property which has been two years in the works.

IF YOU WANT TO LEARN MORE ABOUT SHARING YOUR WORLD CLICK HERE.

Share Your World 2016 Week #21

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Well it has been a few weeks since I have had the time to swing by Cee’s place and take part in a share your world challenge. Last week I was on vacation. I wasn’t able to get to a computer to post but I did keep up with some of the other “Share your worlders” via my smart phone. Anyway this is the place where I share some of my world with all y’all. Have a read through and then click the link below to see other people’s shares.

What is your favorite go to beverage?  Water, coffee, tea, coke, soda (non-alcoholic)

I would have to say coffee but not right now because I am temporarily off the java. So right now my go to beverage is lemon ginger tea.

Can you change a car tire?

Yes I can but I would rather call Triple A

Are you a listener or talker?

I like to listen to people but sometimes I just can’t keep the trap shut. Usually that is not a good thing.

Would you rather have no internet or no cell phone?

Can you even have a cell phone anymore without internet? I think I use the internet on my phone more than my actual cell phone.

Bonus question:  What are you grateful for from last week, and what are you looking forward to in the week coming up? 

I am so grateful I got to take a five day break and that I got to see my daughter on her birthday. This week I am looking forward to our monthly concert at the Lifeskills program.

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