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I have been working to get org-static-blog working correctly with my new set up. Previously, I had my local copy at the root of my user directory. Since org-static-blog can’t create pages and neither Gemini or Claude could write an emacs function to create a page, I decided to move the local blog into the directory structure which I use for pushing the content to github. I finally got the links sorted out. It was understanding that the links formed the basis for github.io, not my local situation. So far, so good. ...

Our friend Hulu went off to the Paws Forward program in prison. She barked for 5 minutes straight when she first arrived. We were hopeful she would settle in. Wrong! The prisoners found Hulu to be smart and willing to be trained, but she did bark–a definite no-no–and she pulled. They described her behavior as aggressive. I might characterize it as enthusiastic. But she’s a strong dog and almost pulled an inmate off his feet. ...

My experiment with ProtonDrive has begged the question: Which files should I save? An easy answer is, of course, all of them. Although likely possible, I am discovering that saving every file is a lot like saving every object in my house. Every time I have moved–and I’ve moved a lot–I try to get rid of things. So maybe every time I set up a new place to store files, I should do the same. ...

Am I ready for my daily 250 words? I run a function when I start writing to set my baseline of zero words so that another function can count them. The joy of emacs! But I don’t know if I’m ready to write them tonight. Today is not a spiritual writing day. It’s rainy here and not a good day to go outside. Quiet dreary. So I settled down to the pi to find an alternative to Google Drive, iCloud Drive and OneDrive for my collection of text files. ...

I don’t think Ihave the courage to pray Psalm 26 myself though I hear it read every fifth of the month at morning prayer in the 30-day cycle. I don’t think I can meet its claims of righteousness. What caught my attention this morning was verse 7: Singing aloud a song of thanksgiving\ and recounting all your wonderful deeds. Obviously, This is not a whole sentence. It is set in the context of worship. ...

Wednesday is the day I do Morning Prayer as a reading circle and we do the 7-week psalm cycle rather than the 30-day one. So I will choose two verses from Jeremiah. I read it last night with a different reading circle. Be appalled, O heavens, at this;\ be shocked; be utterly desolate, says the Lord,\ for my people have have committed two evils:\ they have forsaken me,\ the fountain of living water, and dug out cisterns for themselves,\ cracked cisterns that can hold no Water. ...

My boundary lines have fallen for me in pleasant places;\ I have a goodly heritage. It’s time for me to write about this verse. It, or similar words, are enscribed on the sun dial in front of the library where I went to seminary. It was understood to be affirmation for the pastor’s life. Since I never received a call or was ordained in this denomination, I have always struggled with this verse. ...

I have been mulling over the last bit of Zephaniah 3:15. The Lord is in your midst, You shall see evil/harm/disaster no more. This is an amalgamation of several translations all of which have their nuances of meaning. The Hebrew word is ra’ah as in the tree of tov (good) and ra’ah. But ra’ah embraces more meaning than evil. Zephaniah 3:15 is a promise, not necessarily a reflection of the current state of affairs. Someday this will be true. ...