24 December 25

Today's tie for Christmas Eve continues a longstanding personal tradition . . . celebrating the message of the angels to the shepherds . . . 

24 December 23

Wearing my angels tie for Christmas Eve/Christmas Sunday.

25 December 20

 Merry Christmas 2020! Our family is Zooming together to share the presents we're exchanging this year. My tie for Christmas Eve/Christmas Day is covered with angels blowing trumpets and plucking harps.

24 December 19

On Christmas Eve we attended both the 5 p.m. and 11 p.m. services at First United Methodist Church of Richmond, Kentucky. Of course I wore two different ties!

24 December 18

For Christmas Eve, the musical angels have come out! This is the sixth time in ten years for the tie, but this is first time they are "vested." (The angels have harps and horns.)

24 December 17

Musical angels for Christmas Eve -- and this is my second-last tie for 2017!

9-10 August 17

Yesterday was Susan Burberry's birthday! Susan and her husband Clyde David have been special family friends since soon after we arrived in Berea, Kentucky, in fall 1986. She asked me to wear my "musical angels" tie because she has a nice collection of angel art and figurines. (I didn't wear a tie yesterday because Beth and I were busy celebrating our 42nd wedding anniversary!)

24 December 15

At the annual service of Lessons and Carols at Somerset First Presbyterian Church, I'm helping Beth keep track of the music. She is playing organ and piano for 4 pre-service selections, 12 carols (all verses!),  and 3 service pieces (prelude, offertory and postlude). As usual, the church musicians do the vast majority of the work for such events -- and they get to celebrate too! My tie shows fairly traditional angels playing musical instruments.

24-25 December 13

For Christmas Eve I'm wearing my Christmas angels! At the service this evening, at Somerset First Presbyterian Church, Beth is playing organ and piano (separately) for what seems like about forty carols. I am singing one of the "kingly" verses in "We Three Kings."

29 November 11

First Tuesday in Advent -- also the birthday (in 1898) of C. S. Lewis. "Friendship is . . . the sort of love one can imagine between angels." (from Chapter 4 of The Four Loves)

24 December 10

Christmas Eve; at Nicholasville Presbyterian Church, I am singing two solos because our choir director is sick.

24 December 09

Christmas Eve

07 December 08

Angels