Monthly Archives: September 2010

September 19th-26th: Just Us

September 27, 2010 in Missions by michael
The return from Vermont to Utah had some perks the drive out didn’t have.  First of all, I wasn’t alone.  Lynne made the journey with me.  And secondly we were able to take time for some side trips. First stop was at my son-in-laws private boarding school in Massachusetts.  It’s a gorgeous place called Northfield  Mount [...]

September 18th: You had to have been there

September 27, 2010 in Missions by michael
Some days are utterly and completely unique unto themselves.  There’s nothing like them.  We can do our best to try and describe them but the words fail us.  We say things like, “You had to have been there” because no matter how hard we try we can’t capture it all. Not even close.  It’s like [...]

September 13th-17th: America the beautiful

September 27, 2010 in Missions by michael
I drove from Butte Montana to Thetford Vermont this week.   Alone with boxes of M2B:) books, cds, guitars, microphones, boom stands, a sound system AND SATELLITE RADIO.  I think satellite radio was invented for people driving across the country.  So much music, commercial free, to accompany the trek across the fruited plains.  Montana sort [...]

September 6-12: Montana

September 27, 2010 in Missions by michael
Got a chance to fall in love with Montana this week.   And I didn’t even do any fly fishing!!!  Says a lot for the great folks of the Big Sky State.   The M2B:) concerts were divided between Great Falls, Billings and Butte.  My friend John Batdorf joined me and the most repeated phrased [...]

September 5th: Shutting down

September 5, 2010 in Missions by michael
I’m back home, and sort of shutting down. Don’t have a choice really.  I don’t have anything left in the tank, though I’m certainly not as miserable as I was a week ago.    I was going to go to bed VERY early tonight, but I postponed sack time a bit so I could receive [...]

September 4th: Don’t Stop

September 5, 2010 in Missions by michael
Today John Batdorf and I did a concert in the San Diego area.  This was the singles’ conference I’ve been writing about and worrying about since the big P (pneumonia) rocked my world.  The show went better than I ever dreamed it could have given my physical condition just 4 days ago, but the star [...]

September 3rd: White

September 5, 2010 in Missions by michael
I’m insane, but hopeful.  Or, should I say, hopefully it’s just BEING insane that has me sitting here at the back of a plane headed for California to perform tomorrow at a Singles Conference that was booked months ago.  Don’t feel spectacular, but I’m not coughing, dripping, wheezing or spitting up that delightful avocado green [...]

September 2nd: Anti Biotics

September 5, 2010 in Missions by michael
I’m on a Z pack for my pneumonia.  Apparently if I take these industrial strength pills for five days in a row, then wait five days and do it again, I’ll be healed.  Wondering why on earth anyone with pneumonia would WANT to be healed.  I mean, I’m looking at this from a M2B:) perspective [...]

September 1st: No wonder extra strength cold remedies didn’t help

September 5, 2010 in Missions by michael
Don’t you just hate it when your doctor says that you have pneumonia AND sinusitis? And to make matters worse you’re on a mission to be happy and, to be frank, I’ve never had either pneumonia OR sinusitis on my list of “happy” additions to my life. But there is an upside to my condition that [...]