04 February 11

Today is Friday which is usually an un-tied (though not untidy) day for me. But I want to honor my dear friend Harry Smiley, who died Wednesday and whose visitation is this evening. Harry's primary occupation was as a chemistry teacher, and so I am wearing one of my periodic table ties. I knew Harry better as a philosophic and theological skeptic with strong spiritual foundations. My Facebook status today says that "he was thoroughly convinced that God's grace was all that we could ever depend on, and all that we ever needed."