I don't know, but . . .

''I do not know everything; still many things I understand.'' Goethe

Observations by me and others of our tribe

... mostly me and my better half--youngsters have their own blogs

Tuesday, March 17, 2026

Deciphering labels

We've been getting a variety of whole wheat bread lately -- I won't give the brand. It's a smidgeon pricey, so I looked over th...

Monday, March 16, 2026

The right kind of sign

In John 6 we read of the feeding of the 5000 and the aftermath: Jesus withdraws to avoid being proclaimed king, walks on the sea that nigh...

Saturday, March 14, 2026

Philanthropy

I'd had a note to look up Pakistani charitable giving, and that led to World Giving Report , where the map claims that China is in the t...

Backup plans

One of my mental exercises is to try to figure alternate ways of getting from A to B without the usual tools (e.g. no car), no handy friends...

Which snapshot do you use

I thought I'd written about this years ago, but apparently not. We visited an Illinois park with a little museum attached, which include...

"Finds it unoccupied, swept, and put in order"

An image rather than a logical analysis: The world of a pagan or animist is full of spirits and gods, sometimes in unexpected places, provi...

Friday, March 13, 2026

Approximating a magic function

I got to wondering about a function to generate the primes: $\Pi(n)=$ n'th prime. Obviously that would have truly weird behavior: an ...

Thursday, March 12, 2026

I hadn't noticed

“If a slain person is found lying in the open country in the land which the Lord your God gives you to possess, and it is not known who has ...

Baseball cards

A few memories forcibly reminded me of some thoughts on foolishness as something that defiles . After mentally squirming a bit, I moved on t...

Staying attentive

We got to talking about the difference in preaching between your typical anglo congregation and a black one. I suspect that the more congre...

Wednesday, March 11, 2026

Hunger and thirst

Someone pointed out that while you could go a day without drinking anything, it was nearly impossible, if you were interacting with other pe...

Tuesday, March 10, 2026

One learns

We've driven sedans, then station wagons as the family grew, then minivans. I looked at people driving SUV's and wondered why? You...

It's a little thing

but perhaps it only seems so. I've no objection to -- in fact it seems fine -- a pastor or other leader joining in some silly and perhap...

Monday, March 09, 2026

Winning in Iran

I don't see the point of talking about "unconditional surrender"--we can't enforce that without boots on the ground and ev...

Statutes and Laws and

The Old Testament uses a number of different words to describe God's laws, and I wasn't sure about the distinctions. So I looked up...

Saturday, March 07, 2026

"Different"

I get it. They want to make sure that someone with a birth defect is not considered of lesser worth. They want to be kind and fair, so the...

Thursday, March 05, 2026

To pour wisdom into young minds

Remember your senior year in high school? My memory is fuzzy – it was more than 50 years ago – but a few moments, and some of the people, s...

A word to the wise about dryer seals

Replacing the rear felt seal has been more fraught than I expected. The video explaining how to replace it claimed it only took a few minut...

Saturday, February 28, 2026

Iranian agents

For decades I have heard dark warnings that Iran has sleeper cells in the USA waiting for the word to do something.(*) I guess now we find ...

Friday, February 27, 2026

Blame the ELF's

While doing research for a story, I ran across more detailed information about Project ELF (alternative link ) than the news ever carried. ...

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