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Podcast Highlights, Part I

Posted by Danny on Monday, April 25, 2011 at 6:28 pm

(I usually write these posts by hand before putting them up, which means, I think, somewhat less horrible prosody that may otherwise happen, but also, that I can be side-tracked and my posts are either lost or terribly delayed.  And, because I don’t date the writing in my notebooks, I have no idea how long ago this was intended to go out.  The timestamp is a guess—I actually posted this on May 31, 2011.  Appy-polly-logies, absent reader base.)

Both of the projects planned for Exploring Our World at Youth Group have come to nought: attendance is too spotty and folks are too tired coming straight from school to generate a consistent sort of participation.  We got one good petition-planning meeting in, with fun, Mark-Thomas-style discussion, but our political machinations petered out; as has been the practice in the past, it’s been just me bringing in neat things, so the Web of Awesome has similarly failed.  Alas.

But!  While there’s been sadness there, I have discovered a few exciting things that have occupied much of my time and may pleasantly occupy yours.

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