lent Lent Poetry 3 Family We met at Halloween, then again at Christmas-- acceptance making it so there was more than just friendship from the start. No one can tell you how it happens but sometimes Fate puts Her hand into things and creates love and beauty.
lent Lent Poetry 2 words from the past determine the future but as I look at our past selves I see the truth of us we've change we've deepend but You and I have always had love and kindness and play intertwined and individual we are ourselves now and forever
lent Lent Poetry 1 Today is Ash Wednesday and the first day of Lent. During seminary, I started doing Lenten workings, working with the concept of sacrifice, which is the whole premise of Easter in my personal theology. It is usually something that I end up doing every day until Easter that takes the
Fountain Pens Fountain Pen Thoughts -- February 6 Another new pen today -- a Jinhao Tiandao 1935. I really like this pen and the Diamine Writer's Blood ink works well with it. Missing my Wife today, but super grateful that we have video calling now. I just think about when I traveled to CA [in 2005]
Fountain Pens Fountain Pen Thoughts -- February 4 Blessed (belatedly) Imbolg! A poem: I have to believe in hope to believe in a light at the end of the tunnel to believe that after everything the Spring will come and the butterflies and birds will do their yearly dances. I have to believe that flowers will still bloom
Fountain Pens Fountain Pen Thoughts -- Jan 31 I wrote this grat post about what true "patriotism" is using Londo Mollari from Babylon 5 because he has a great speech in the series about it. I wrote it in Tumblr and I thought I'd copies the whole post and when I went to put
activism Fountain Pen Thoughts -- Jan 28 #fountainpens Storm Eowyn knocked out power here for nearly 3 days. Our cell service was out, too. I read a lot and it was hard not being able to talk to The Wife. It also gave me a lot of time to think. Americans are at an inflection point. We
Fountain Pens Fountain Pen Thoughts - Jan 23 It's National Handwriting Day in the US, so I figured I'd break out my stub nib TWSBI Diamond 580. It's inked with Grotto from the Diamine Inkvent Calendar. I love my TWSBIs and am a little sad that my full TWSBI collection is not
Fountain Pens #FountainPen Thought - Jan. 21 F--K TRUMP That is all. Pen: Kaweco Piston Filler Ink: Diamine Green/Black (That's all I can really say right now.)
birthday Fountain Pen Thoughts -- January 16 It's my Birthday! Holy crap, I'm 49! I've always been fine with my Birthday, but this year it's kind of surprised me that I'm as old as I am. I don't feel that old, you know? The last
Fountain Pens Fountain Pen Thoughts - 14 Jan. #fountainpens #handwriting #blog Pen: Benu Skulls and Roses "Crow" Ink: Pelikan Edelstein Onyx Internet woes now over and new router installed! Today I can stream! https://www.twitch.tv/lulujamesspencer Yay! Now on to other things-- I just want to remind people that you don't have
cooking Today's Fountain Pen Thoughts Today I'm waiting for my new wifi router to show up. Making a new-to-me grain in the Instant Pot called freekeh. I hope it's good. It certainly sounded interesting. Going to try and stream tonight. If you want to join me, go over to http://twitch.
facebook Fountain Pen Thoughts — 8 January Meant to do this yesterday but my wifi router decided to die on me. I still have my phone, so I can still post. So this is mostly an FYI: I will most likely close up shop on Facebook at some point in the next few months, due to FB’
amwriting Fountain Pen Thoughts - 1/3/25 This is a new @benupen called "Skull and Roses Crow." Very fitting for me as I love crows and even have a crow tattoo on my left shoulder. This pen is happy-making. I have a number of crows out in my backyard. Over New Year's, I
Fountain Pens Diamine Inkvent Calendar -- Day 25 #diamineinkventcalendar #inkvent2024 #diamineinkvent2024 Good Tidings -- Extreme Sheen I actually brok out the dip pen for this one to see how it writes! It's either a deep black or blue-black with a green-gold sheen. It's definitely a very interesting ink! Happy Christmas and Blessed Holidays for
Fountain Pens Diamine Inkvent Calendar -- Day 24 #diamineinkventcalendar #inkvent2024 #diamineinkvent2024 Salted Caramel -- Shimmer Another lovely brown! It does, indeed, look like caramel! The color and shimmer in this one are just right. This might be a full bottle contender. (Not sure which will be bought in full bottles, but that will have to wait for a
Fountain Pens Diamine Inkvent Calendar -- Day 23 #diamineinkventcalendar #inkvent2024 #diamineinkvent2024 Pine Needle -- Chameleon I adore green inks! I really like this saturated color, and honestly, I'd like it with or without the glitter. When it's wet, the swirling glitter looks really cool in the ink. Like glittering green garland!
Fountain Pens Diamine Inkvent Calendar -- Day 22 #diamineinkventcalendar #inkvent2024 #diamineinkvent2024 Nutmeg -- Shimmer This is a really neat color! When it was wet, it looked like melted copper, but dry it looks like bronze. I do like my browns, and this is a very interesting effect with the gold glitter.
Fountain Pens Diamine Inkvent Calendar -- Day 21 #diamineinkventcalendar #inkvent2024 #diamineinkvent2024 Cosmic Glow -- Extreme Sheen This is a really nice blue with a heavy red sheen. While there's plenty of this type of ink around, I do like that this is a more royal blue. This looks cool when writing, though. I do love a
Fountain Pens Diamine Inkvent Calendar -- Day 20 #diamineinkventcalendar #inkvent2024 #diamineinkvent2024 Potpurri -- Standard Another lilac-themed color. Not gonna lie-- not very enthused about this color, but I don't hate it, either. Write's well, though. (I just got a Sailor Dip Pen now! Yay!)
Fountain Pens Diamine Inkvent Calendar -- Day 19 #diamineinkventcalendar #inkvent2024 #diamineinkvent2024 Fruit Cocktail -- Scented A lovely peachy orange! (Orange is one of my favorite colors!) The scent is really fruity, but is not super strong. Remins me of the smell of Hawaiian Punch. No real shading, but a very solid color.
Fountain Pens Diamine Inkvent Calendar -- Day 18 #diamineinkventcalendar #inkvent2024 #diamineinkvent2024 Vibe -- Extreme Sheen Woo! My first thoughts when I saw this were correct: This is very similar to @organicsstudios "Walden". If I remember right, Walden was greener, but wow, this one is pretty great. I really do like sheening inks that look like you&
Fountain Pens Diamine Inkvent Calendar -- Day 17 #diamineinkventcalendar #inkvent2024 #diamineinkvent2024 Winterberry -- Chameleon To be honest, I'm never sure exactly what they mean by "chameleon" ink. Some have really interesting properties, but this one, for example, just looks like a pretty red glitter ink to me. Don't get me wrong, this
Fountain Pens Diamine Inkvent Calendar -- Day 16 #diamineinkventcalendar #inkvent2024 #diamineinkvent2024 Tundra -- Standard A lovely grey ink. It does remind me of some similar inks I have. It looks like it should shade well, though. It does look like clouds on a snowy day, or some of the pictures my wife had of the high arctic from
Fountain Pens Diamine Inkvent Calendar -- Day 15 #diamineinkventcalendar #inkvent2024 #diamineinkvent2024 Sleigh Ride -- Extreme Sheen I like the red of this-- it looks brown when it's wet-- and there is a lot of green-gold sheen, but it's hard to see the sheen on camera I got a dip pen, so this is how
