My new HP laptop came today!! To you techies, it's a very simple machine, but to me it is amazing! My old one died at age 6, so technology has come a long way in the interim. The set up on this machine took minimal time. I remember the days of the old IBM desk-top PC I used to write my dissertation many long years ago. It cost more than twice this laptop, was huge and cumbersome, and Word Star required imbedded symbols for all the punctuation marks. Today's pc's are light years from those originals, but, in their day, those machines represented the best the tech world had to offer. You could do computer work at home instead of being tied to the massive mainframe on campus. The people who are advancing the computing field have my deep admiration.
I'm especially grateful for "the information highway", to use Al Gore's term, in these days of isolation. I can write to you and read other blogs that interest me. I can entertain myself, buy what we need, and connect with my family and friends. I can even 'attend' church remotely. On that front, I commend to you the Lenten series prepared by our clergy and a parishioner who owns an art gallery. Please go to www.stthomasspringdale.org, and check out 'Lenten Series by the Rev. Dr. Von Unruh'. Pam Morgan, our rector, Von Unruh, our Methodist colleague, James Stroud, gallery owner, and Stephen Gates, cellist, put together a Wednesday night series that got interrupted by covid-19. The subject is a walk through the events of Holy Week, and you can pick it up where we had to take it online. Rev. Unruh, our resident scholar, prepared the very informative lectures, which were paired with related art works and music for the whole effect. I had no idea I would learn so much and have my long-held assumptions rearranged!
My little brain is filled with all I want to check out now that I have a new computer to play with. I'll be watching the St. Thomas videos, and hope you will join me.
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