1. What’s a food that instantly makes you feel cozy?
2. Describe the best cloud you saw recently.
3. What song is stuck in your head right now?
4. If you could add one silly feature to your phone, what would it be?

A number of years ago I gave up on personalized music streaming services. I had used Pandora for the longest time, but tried to remove reliance from any service that required an account and a proprietary app, in the name of privacy. I opted to use streaming radio...

What’s your favorite thing to do outside when the weather is perfect?

If you could only do one outdoor activity for the rest of your life, what would it be?

What’s the silliest thing that’s ever happened to you while enjoying the great outdoors?

Would you rather explore a dense forest or relax on a sunny beach?

So sorry, I’ve fallen behind on the Blog Questions Challenge, but I’m going to work to get caught up.

If you could have any gadget from a sci-fi movie, which would you choose?
Absolutely a Star Trek transporter. There are too many places I want to visit and too much family I want to see and would love to have the tech to just beam over for a chat, then beam home.

We have to build a new faith narrative. We’ve got to tell a new story about faith in this country. And it can’t always be about what we’re against because the problem is that they’re telling people what they’re for–it’s all wrong–but they’re telling people what they’re for. We have to tell people what God is for. What faith is for. How faith is welcoming, inclusive, how it’s building, it’s empowering, it’s liberating, it’s setting people free. How’s it’s loving on people and not hating on people, which is really what this story is being told.
– Bishop Dwayne Royster

Doing the Blog Questions Challenge posted by the bot that jcrabapple has set up, because it’s what all the cool kids are doing now.

Yeah, I’m a little late. February 1 was global switch day, a day dedicated to switching away from big tech platforms and moving to more privacy-friendly platforms.