Pastor Adam has been working with me this week to make sure that I can be heard live online and also clearly and distinctly in the recording of my sermon tonight for Good Friday. If you are interested in hearing my sermon, you can watch it live tonight, 6:30 Pacific Time, at: http://tucsonfriends.online.church. If you can’t make it at that time, you can watch a recording of it at: http://YouTube.com/@tucsonfriends/streams. Good Friday to you all!
Several people from my church gathered this afternoon (in 99 F heat) to go to the Degrazia Gallery. Degrazia was an American painter who studied under Diego Rivera. In 1963, he did a series of paintings of the Stations of the Cross that are only brought out during Lent. We weren’t allowed to take pictures of the artwork, but I got photos of some of the other things around the grounds.
Continue readingTraditionally, we have gone to Tombstone for Mark’s birthday, but yesterday (Friday the 14th) the weather was unseasonably cold. The report said it would be snowy in Tombstone, so we decided to do some indoor things here in Tucson. I put together a treasure map for Mark.
Continue readingMy church shares our building with another church called Trinity Reformed Church. Mark woke me up this morning and told me that Trinity was having an Ash Wednesday service. I jumped out of bed and got dressed and went in.
Continue readingFor the last few weeks, I’ve been spending a lot of time at the Tucson Refugee Center. It started when Pastor Adam took me there several weeks ago so that I could take a sewing machine I was donating to them. I looked around and saw some other needs.
Continue readingYesterday I posted a blog about the weather here in Tucson vs the weather in southern Oregon. I asked if you had pictures of your weather last week or could at least tell me what it was like…
Continue readingThis last week has been surprisingly warm for February, even for Tucson! Our temperatures have been in the 70’s and 80’s. Not so up north I’ve heard…
Continue readingYesterday, Mark went to the VA first thing in the morning to get his free hearing aids for tinnitus. Then he took me up to Hearing & Brain Centers of America in Paradise Valley to have mine adjusted. I have a new doctor who will be working with me now and he took my hearing aids to the second level. Wow!
Continue readingLast month, Mark learned about a place that could help with tinnitus. The place’s name is Hearing and Brain Centers of America and it’s up north of Phoenix. He’s had tinnitus constantly for many years, so he went in and got tested and found he has Stage 2 hearing loss. They said that tinnitus comes from the brain, not from your hearing, and that it can also lead to Alzheimer’s and dementia. He was given something that is kind of like a hearing aid, only not. They set it at the lowest setting and told him to return in a week for an adjustment.
Continue readingFrom our RV to your house, Merry Christmas!
I did a couple of readings at my church’s Christmas Eve service this evening. If you’d be interested in hearing th, I do a scripture reading right at the beginning (and there’s a glitch you have to click past), and then Dale reads the Christmas story from Luke 2. After that, I read Paul Harvey’s Christmas story, “The Man and the Birds”. Enjoy!