dual personalities

On Saturday my friends and I embarked on an autumn adventure. We ventured down to the Historic Shaw Art Fair. The Art Fair itself is not historic, but the neighborhood is. The idea for the last 20 years has been to showcase the beautiful neighborhood by providing a “high-caliber cultural event”. We are always up for one of those.

Because Carla was driving, we found the bomb spot and parked right outside the Missouri Botanical Garden. Awesome.

It was overcast, but pleasant. There were reputedly 135 artists from across the country.

Plus “entertainment”.

It was fun, but I always feel bad about not buying something from all the well-meaning and earnest artists. I usually prefer my artwork to be vintage. C’est la vie. Afterwards we went to Jilly’s for lunch. I did not have a cupcake, but the non-dessert food was yummy.

When I got home I went over to my favorite Pumpkin Patch at the Methodist Church and picked out a couple of pumpkins.

I love pumpkins, don’t you?

Here is how my front porch “vignette” looks:

We planted some grass a few weeks ago and had part of a bale of hay left.

I know you’re impressed.

I was the second lector at church yesterday and I was pleasantly surprised to read one of my favorite scripture passages from the second letter of Paul to Timothy. It includes my personal mantra:

For God did not give you a spirit of timidity, but one of power and love and self-control. (RSV)

Of course, it was the NRSV so it read a little differently: for God did not give us a spirit of cowardice, but rather a spirit of power and of love and of self-discipline.

The KJV says: For God hath not given us the spirit of fear; but of power, and of love, and of a sound mind.

In this instance I like the RSV best. It is so much more personal, speaking to “you”, which seems like what Paul would have been doing in his letter to Timothy.

How was your weekend?