- Maintain and improve health and housing situation. I'll be resuming the diet that worked so well for me about 10 years ago, stepping up to exercising 5 times a week, and continuing to improve my housing - after all, I'm going to be living here another 30 years so anything I do will pay off in the long run
- Regularize my delivery of pro bono legal services through the Veterans Pro Bono Consortium Project. I'm currently handling one case, and by the end of 2014 should be experienced enough to start a pipeline
- Get Veterans and Friends of Puget Sound organized and humming. January will be a key month for this, as we have a necessary bit of time to regroup and reorganize; the goal is that it should be as efficient and regular as 4freeCLE.
- Keep expanding 4freeCLE. There has to be a way to extend its reach to provide more service.
Tuesday, December 31, 2013
Plans for 2014
Monday, December 30, 2013
The Archdruid Report's favorite bible verses
From The Archdruid Report
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Here are the passages I found in which Jesus tells his followers that they have a duty to take care of children, the poor, and other vulnerable people: Matthew 18:6, 18:10, 19:21, 23:14, and 25:31-46; Mark 9:36-37, 10:21, and 12:40; and Luke 10:30-37, 11:41, 12:33, 14:12-14, 18:22, and 20:47.
Here are the passages in which Jesus tells his followers to pay their taxes without complaining: Matthew 5:42, 17:24-27, and 22:19-21; Mark 12:14-17; and Luke 6:30 and 20:21-25.
Here are the passages in which Jesus tells his followers that they aren’t supposed to obsess about other people’s sins, but should leave that to God, and attend to their own moral failings instead: Matthew 7:1-5 and 9:10-13; Mark 2:15-17; Luke 6:37, 6:41-42, 7:44-48, 15:2, 18:10-14, and 19:7; and John 8:2-11.
And here are the passages in which Jesus tells his followers to blame the poor and vulnerable for their plight, direct benefits toward the already well-to-do at the expense of everyone else, refuse to pay their fair share of taxes, and obsessively denounce and punish the sins of people they don’t like while finding every opportunity to excuse their own sins and those of their friends:
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I Have Just About Had Enough Of 2013
Let's look at the casualty list:
- My mother, Doris Regina Receveur Winnie
- My father-in-law Larry
- My client, William L. Booker
- My friend Michel Kramer
- My marriage (which technically may have only been a zombie laid to rest once Larry's death freed Kris from being economically dependent on my meager assistance - but since I didn't know it was dead, it was more of a Schrödinger's cat - lively enough so long as we didn't check.)
Various other people are unwell - Charlotte's husband Jim, my sister-in-law's father, many others.
I suppose I should be cheered by the signs of life; our block is chock full of babies - or toddlers now I suppose - who are delightful to see as they grow weekly. But we're still in the dark of the year, and the way forward is quite uncertain, now that I have been betrayed by my partner.
Relationships can die; that's just a fact. I should have recognized that there was a problem, which Kris absolutely refused do discuss any problem. But what the heck, love and inertia are powerful forces, and it sure seemed like we were building a future together, so to the extent I thought about things we didn't talk about, I figured we'd work it out somehow. After all, we talked ALL THE TIME about the future we were building together. I put a lot of effort into arranging things so that by the time Kris retired, she would have no worries, and asked her at least once a quarter if she was comfortable with my irregular employment (book sales, mystery shopping, etc.) She always said yes, I should continue as is because it enabled me to do my charitable and meaningful work.
I took her at her word.
That's another thing to leave behind with 2013.
4freeCLE: Free Continuing Legal Education! - December 29, 2013
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