A Trip Around the Blogsphere

I haven't been blogging much - I have been busy with sewing, cleaning, reading, planning for the 6th & 7th grade literature class, shuttling kids to and fro and any number of great things. None of them are the things that I most want to do - although they are pretty important to me. I am feeling depleted because I want to write - but don't really have two brain cells that I can claim for my own. So, I thought I would point you to a couple of blog posts that I have read recently that have had me thinking of things I might write *sigh* if only I had the time

Kate blogs about some missionaries from Korea staying in the "Green House" (where they so kindly let us stay when we come for a visit), and their fascination with homeschooling.

Keet blogs, "I Killed Jane Austen" and found myself

Stephanie blogs about freedom - I know it's a shock, but we'll all recover!

These blogs stood out to me today and grabbed my attention. I will blog about such things later. When you visit my friends, tell them I sent you, with a little linky lovin'!

Shhh! I Have a Secret

When I'm at co-op, sometimes people think I'm hard at work.
In reality
I'm reading your blogs.

I can't help myself.
I need a 12 step plan or something.

Preplexed

My dinner out with Melody last night was terrific. I love the conversation. We come from two totally different places and have found ourselves companions in that we are both strangers here. She is an intelligent and insightful person. You just love being with someone who has your thoughts stirred, and your faith challenged.
At one point in the evening our conversation turned to politics. Sometimes I scare myself. I get so engrossed in a topic, that I forget to shut up, chew with my mouth closed, and take a breath. I have to remind myself to stop and listen. I get so passionate about things, or even about the exploration of things, that I am like a train bumping along faster and faster on uneven ground, sure to derail.
While talking with her I realized that two things of importance, politically speaking are diametrically opposed to one another. I want less government on one hand, and yet I want them to foot the bill so that poor or indigent people can have the health care that the middle and upper classes enjoy. (Thank you to my friend Amy who pointed out *duh* that this means more Big Brother! Sometimes I require an iron skillet in the head!) What to do.
I have also stumbled onto some terrific blogs lately that have taken my poor brain to the point of almost melting. I am loving it - and yet, if I spend all day reading blogs, people around here would be eating Fruity Pebbles and running naked in the streets. (I am sure we can stir up some deep thoughts about that!) I thought I'd use that as a lighthearted segue to sharing some linky love:

iamjoshbrown
Josh Brown on Immigration (I loved this post!)
He is also an excellent photographer -
and as he put it in his most recent post he.... . . never misses a chance to be political and antagonistic

Quirky Grace
Quirky Grace a/k/a Jamila Kwon on Lust
and a Poem by a Zen Chic Who is a Christian

Give them a read, and maybe a shout out - and tell 'em Jewlsntexas sent ya!