Thanks to Cynical-Idealist (who, by the way came to my site via the nice, kind words spoken about me by Liz the Messy Christian), I realized that my RSS Feed has been broken (probably for ages!). So, today, I went a snooping around to a-fixing it.

I now use Steve Smith’s FeedBurner’s Replacement Plugin for WordPress. It grabs my RSS feed and sends it over to FeedBurner, which I can then use to optimize and publish my feeds for the benefit of my readers. If you were subscribing to my feeds or wanted to do so in the past but had been unable to, I apologize. Please go ahead and subscribe now that it is fixed.

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I have just gotten started reading Blue Like Jazz. I am not supposed to be reading this. Not like how I am doing anyway. I am supposed to be doing a million other things and it was supposed to be light reading. Like a couple pages a day. But I started the book a couple days ago, and now I find myself not being able to put it down. Well, I managed to yank myself from it long enough for some blog-diversion, if you know what I mean…

This guy talks about all the things that hit so close to my heart. He has already made me cry more than once (but then I cry easily and if you are a macho man with a stiff upper lip, I recommend it to you - I’ve heard that it’s good for the body and the soul), and he has made me laugh. Sometimes at the same time. But it’s different. I genuinely feel the sorrow and hillarity. At the same time. It is bizarre. I have shifted uneasily in my seat, and moaned and uttered unutterables under my breath, and sometimes over it. He is frustrating, irritating and inspiring all at the same time as he is enlightening.

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This week’s Best of Me Symphony (BOMS) #132 is now up at The Owner’s Manual. The Best of Me Symphony is a culling of posts that are at least sixty days old, submitted from around the blogosphere, orchestrated by Gary Cruse, the Manual’s owner and “Guest Conducted” by a celebrity (in the form of juxtaposed quotations ably selected by blogger Cruse).

My entry this week is from a post I put up a while back in response to the hullabaloo caused by the findings of some social scientific research that purportedly found intercessory prayer to be ineffective for surgery patients: On Defending God. This week’s rendition has an ensemble cast of political, satirical, humorous, cultural and other posts and is guest conducted by Florence King. Quite a mosaic collection, really. So go soak it all in.

If you wish to participate in the next Symphony, you can read all about the rules here.

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