Ok after Nigel stopped talking we got a CRUNCHY voluntary starting ok ok ok ok It's like the organ itself was shushing him #9lc

If you don’t love me at my star led chieftans you can’t have me at my word. #9LC

😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭 Just ugly crying by the Christmas tree now #9lc

Idk I liked that Rutter to 3 Ships transition. It's like at a dance when after they slow song they play a club banger to get everyone back out on the floor. Husband hid before I could make him two-step with me #9lc

More Rutter ahead! Dormi Jesu is from Rutter's Folklore/Evermore era.

This man just read "wiiiiiiisse men" with a tone like "can you believe it, MEN were WISE?!" #9lc

So what I’m getting from the #9lc feed is Rutter : Taylor Swift :: Tavener : …Charli XCX?

is this a good time to bring up my favorite schoolboy bastardization of "while shepherds watched their flocks": while shepherds washed their socks by night all seated 'round the tub the angel of the lord came down and they began to scrub #9lc

SHON SORE AFRAID #9lc

Alright I’m calling it. Christ candle lit. Once it’s #9lc it’s Christmas now, dammit ⚓️

I also love that scrolling through the feed, The Lamb universally turns the online church people into feral cursing wahoos. The congregation was holding in their coughs. The internet anglicans were holding in there collective estatic growls of "f*ck yeeeeeeessssssss" #9lc ⚓

AW HELL YEAH THIS IS MY JAM. Taveners Little Lamb. I sing it to my dog often #9lc ⚓

I have too much to do to get packed so I can’t sit and live tweet with you all for #9lc which breaks my heart. It’s one of my favorite personal traditions. But just know I’m running around my house listening and openly weeping ⚓️

YOU GUYS THERES a bird watching game on steam now. In case you need to find me, no you don’t. @secretplangames.bsky.social

Poll: would speed bumps reduce drive by shootings? Y/N

all other sins which I cannot now remember

ADVENTS HERE BISHES. That means its time to dust off and bust out the playlist again! Here for you if you want dinner party vibes, or if you're like me and just can't be doin' organ music through the speakers of a subaru. Folksy, americana, with a little spice ⚓ open.spotify.com/playlist/6wL...

Man birders cross state lines to find American Woodcocks and log them on their life lists. Meanwhile, in South Carolina: it’s almost woodcock season 🎯

that is a Blues Brother Father Blues Brother

Tennis ball : terrier :: iPad : toddler (help) (sos)

Why does the Bike Bus make me cry like an absolute baby every time I see it

My birch trees are absolutely swarming with ruby-crowned kinglets today. I think I’m counting at least seven?? #ABirdFromTheLord 🐦

Halloween, age 35

I’m glad we’ve entered an era of pop that’s about excellent vocal skill and musicianship. Chappell, Raye, even Sabrina at times. Just so much love and homage to the classics before them, and no fear to flex what the human voice can do

Remember how we all learned in high school about the pollution of the Industrial Revolution, how sick everyone got and how many people died because we didn’t regulate the wealthy who exploited their workers? And sometimes you will still see a video of someone pressure washing an old London building?

My Merlin app was going bananas this morning. “Is that a flicker? A cuckoo (wow rare!) Is that a…vireo? Is that uh…lost oriel? Is that someone’s house phone?” No. There was a dang mockingbird this morning practicing his accents under this transformer, so his voice was projected extra loud. Jerk.

My ruby-crowned kinglets are back. I love these little guys. And this year they brought parulas and redstarts with them. Snacks are in the pantry kids have fun, make good choices #ABirdFromtheLord 🐦

FASCINATING

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Kind of a birding bust but the tiny dog was happy* *by happy I mean he whined the whole time because I wouldn’t let him swim

🔥🔥 ⚓️ Wow I’m glad for how the spirit is leading our people in this time and for the clear words that will be preserved in our history

Chicago priest Fr. Larry Dowling describes procession to ICE facility: “No one had the courage to speak directly to us. No one from Homeland Security could stand in the presence of the Monstrance holding the Blessed Sacrament. No wonder. Evil is repelled, recoils in the presence of Christ.”

Today is apparently eBirds “big day.” I only got in about 15 minutes at the breakfast table, and it was rainy, but I was very excited for the return of my flicker! Not seen since last year! And for an angry hummingbird (“what’s this seed crap!”) and a couple of warbling migrants #ABirdfromtheLord

I can’t wait for 80 years from now when someone says proudly, “oh yes! I have my great grandfathers inflatable frog costume from before the war!”

God bless @forwardmovement.org and God bless Canva. ⚓

Guilt by association? From years ago? This is unjust and not surprising coming from Israel.

Ok, did not expect “The Lion The Witch and the Wardrobe” to feel quite so relevant to this moment. Here’s Edmund, deciding to side with the leader who he’s been told disappears people.

Of course, it’s not irrelevant that Lewis wrote LWWW in the aftermath of WWII, and sets it at its beginning (probably), so it’s not entirely surprising that the Witch’s reign of terror has some fascistic touches, but I hadn’t realised how much Ed sounds like someone going fash out of resentment.

I didn’t get to pay much attention to fall migration last year so this year has been like a whole new region of the pokemap for me. New lifer (to me)! Black-throated blue warbler. Made a quick stopover in the birches. A nice gift for a day off after a LONG weekend of work #ABirdFromTheLord

Two lifers (for me) in my backyard this morning! American Redstarts and a female scarlet tanager! A real gift after a hard damn week. #ABirdFromtheLord

GUYS every time we guess the date of the rapture God reschedules it. Shut up!!!! You’re messing up recess for everyone!!! 🕯️

Place your bets How long until we have a good picture of those dang little plastic amazon jesuses washed up on a shore somewhere hurting sea turtles ⚓

Yesterday my boss asked “we can do our weekly check-in in the office. Or we can bring your binoculars and we’ll do our meeting at the dove field while I count doves for the hunt this weekend. What do you say?” OBVIOUSLY we’re going to have a birding meeting with the gun dog in the sunshine. ⚓️

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Alright gang (especially @ecclesiangst.bsky.social) I’m coleading a retreat rn on Mary and Martha and working on my sermon for tomorrow. Anyone here have insight on why David and Abigail are the OT reading for the Mary/martha propers? It’s just such a *specific* choice. Subverted hospitality? ⚓️

Everyone is like “where is the leftist media to compete with j o e r o g a n” as though ever person I know doesn’t have a Dropout subscription and listens to Brennan Lee Mulligan take down those “billionaire dicks” every week

I want there to be a business called "The House Doctor" that basically does what that Keshawn guy on Tiktok does with home maintenence but as a service There are so many houses in my town that are deteriorating and it's just because folks don't know how to, or do, any regular maintenence

Wild to hear an ad for DC tourism on NPR, ya know, given…things

I’m reading this book as I continue to process my very short time in the Galapagos (and to give my mental non-theological muscles a flex) This current chapter is about natural and sexual selection in evolution and how it shows up in Darwin’s finches on Daphne Major. It has me thinking about MEN 🧵