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pandemnic  (pan-dem-nick)  Noun : A picnic held in a responsible, socially-distant manner, during a pandemic. Verb : To pandemnick with friends. 

So, has anyone else been having pandemnics during the pandemic? We’ve had four so far and we’ll have another this week. We may schedule more if this season of isolation continues.

I’d like to say it was our idea, but it wasn’t. Our friends Scott and Denise suggested they bring takeout dinner to our turquoise table and we come outside and join them from our porch. We said, “Sure,” but we came off the porch and set up at a card table with our own dinner six feet away. It was shady and breezy and we enjoyed catching up on family and business and life in general. We had such a great time pandemnicking with the two of them that we invited a family of four to fill up the turquoise table a week later while we sat nearby. And then after describing the concept, we were invited to pandemnick with another couple in their yard, and we followed that with another friend back at our turquoise table.

Continue reading “Dinner on the Corner”

For Wilshire Baptist Church

If you saw the Wilshire worship service online this past Sunday, you saw the Wilshire Winds performing an arrangement of “Precious Lord, Take My Hand” in one of those video collages that instrumental and choral groups have been doing around the globe during the pandemic. The first one I saw and still my favorite is the Toronto Symphony Orchestra playing an excerpt from Aaron Copland’s “Appalachian Spring.” My favorite moment is at the very end when a percussionist shows up in the collage with giant headphones and a triangle to play one single “ting.”

Continue reading “Together Alone”

For Wilshire Baptist Church

Did you know that Sunday was the World Day of Prayer for Vocations? I didn’t either until this morning when I watched the weekly Sunday mass from St. Mary’s Catholic Church in Victoria, Texas. That church, like Wilshire and many others, has been live streaming their weekly services, and my brother-in-law Jim has been sending me the Facebook link the past few weeks.

Continue reading “For Those Who Serve”