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Rookie Golden Tate tries to temper enthusiasm

Impatience burned wide receiver Golden Tate last week.

That’s not a figure of speech, either, because he grabbed a Hot Pocket pizza roll fresh out of the microwave, bit into the sucker and piping hot filling squirted onto his hand.

Patience is something Tate has to learn, something that’s as true for his day job as it is for his late-night snacks. Waiting is very hard for him.

“I’ve always been a very, very anxious person,” he said. “That’s kind of what I’m trying to break myself out of, being anxious, being very impatient even when it comes to the routes.”

And his wait for an impact moment ended Saturday in Minnesota when Tate caught a 41-yard pass midway through the fourth quarter. It was Tate’s fifth catch in an exhibition game, but the first one for more than 8 yards.

“It felt real good to get that,” Tate said after the team’s light workout Monday. “It’s something that they know I’m capable of doing. It has just been a matter of time for me to do that.”

It’s just that it took more time than anyone really expected considering how much Tate stood out during the Seahawks’ offseason workouts.

Seattle evaluated Tate as a first-round talent in its evaluations, and he was the only player the Seahawks had rated that highly still available when Seattle’s turn came up in the second round.

The rookie from Notre Dame may be only 5 feet 10, but he was aggressive in the air and strong on the ground, a receiver who played more like a running back when he got the ball in his hands.

Here was a player capable of making big plays whether as a receiver or a returner. He was the home-run threat added to an offense that had only seven offensive plays gain more than 40 yards last season. Not only that, but four of those plays were to running backs and one was a fake punt.

Tate’s performance during offseason workouts showed that he might be the kind of dynamic threat this team had been missing. Seattle’s exhibition games seemed ripe to be a showcase for just what he could do.

But in the first exhibition game, he caught two passes for 5 yards and dropped another ball. In the second exhibition game, Tate didn’t play receiver until the second half and finished with one catch for 8 yards.

Turns out the learning curve for NFL rookies can be steep even when they’re as athletically gifted as Tate.

“He’s shown a lot of ability and in some things he’s just been really, really amazing,” Matt Hasselbeck said of Tate after the second exhibition game. “And in other things he’s a rookie … I remember when I was a rookie. It’s very difficult.”

Hasselbeck entered the league in 1998 as a sixth-round draft choice, competing to be the Packers’ No. 3 quarterback. He thought he played well through the minicamps and in training camp. Then came the first exhibition game, which Green Bay played in Tokyo.

“They might as well have been calling the plays in Japanese,” Hasselbeck said. “It was like I lost my mind.”

Tate isn’t a quarterback so it isn’t quite so overwhelming. More like a matter of working on the precision of his routes.

“He has play-making ability, but that’s not enough in this league,” said Kippy Brown, Seattle’s wide receivers coach. “You have to be disciplined. You have to be where you’re supposed to be when you’re supposed to be there. You have to run routes at the correct depth, and for the most part he’s doing a good job of that, but consistency is something that we keep working on.”

Consistency and patience because while people have wondered what’s taking so long to get Tate involved, Brown said his rookie is proceeding nicely.

“He’s getting there,” Brown said. “I’m really pleased with his progress. We’re right on schedule.”


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Saturday, June 20, 2015

UFC Fight Night: Jedrzejczyk vs. Penne preview

I was mainly going to do major events during the summer, but with the UFC World Strawweight Championship on the line today, I felt it was necessary to make some picks today.

Jessica Penne made a decent run during The Ultimate Fighter before losing to eventual champion Carla Esparza. Penne was also a champion at atomweight in Invicta before moving up to strawweight.

Meanwhile, the champion, Joanna Jedrzejczyk, showcased sheer dominance in victory against Esparza to win the title. That dominance, however, may have been the byproduct of an impressive height advantage. Such an advantage will be nullified with this fight.

Both fighters are proven strikers, but Penne has certainly made a bigger name for herself as a submission artist.

This should prove to be a far more competitive fight than Jedrzejczyk-Esparza if only because Penne has a frame more capable of getting in close to the champion and keeping her on the ground. While I think Esparza is a slightly better striker than Penne, the matchup was simply a poor one.

But don't think that just because I'm expecting a more competitive fight this time around that I'm calling Jedrzejczyk a slouch. Her striking is easily the best I've seen in the UFC strawweight division and I think that it ultimately will prove overwhelming as the fight goes on. My big concern with Jedrzejczyk is that her endurance will get a real test after being held on the ground for a few minutes, which I do expect to happen.

Ultimately, this should prove to be a fight worthy of a lot more hype than it has and certainly deserving of a spot on an actual Fox network. (Seriously, who said this fight should be Fight Pass exclusive?)

German fans in Berlin should expect a great fight that will see the European holding the belt seize control late. I pick Jedrzejczyk by KO in Round 5.

I won't pick the main card, but I'll take Dennis Siver over Tatsuya Kawajiri by KO in Round 1 in the co-main event.

Saturday, June 13, 2015

UFC 188 preview

It's been some time since I've done my picks in text form, but that will probably become the norm shortly.

I am shifting away from video blogs and going back to nearly all text writing in a few months, so here's a text blog of my picks for UFC 188.

Cain Velasquez would be my unquestioned pick before his injury, but ring rust is leaving my a little more apprehensive about picking him to remain UFC World Heavyweight Champion.

Interim champion Fabricio Werdum has had quite the run since his fight with Fedor Emelianenko a few years ago, and his striking and grappling has only gotten better since returning to UFC in my opinion.

Still, I don't think Cain would be entering this fight without knowing he could be back to his high level boxing/wrestling self, so I will take him to pick up a KO win in round 3.

Other fights on Main Card

Lightweight bout: Gilbert Melendez over Eddie Alvarez by decision in my pick for Match of the Night.

Middleweight bout: Nate Marquardt over Kelvin Gastelum by KO in Round 1

Featherweight bout: Yair Rodriguez over Charles Rosa by decision

Strawweight bout: Tecia Torres over Angela Hill by submission in Round 2

Saturday, March 14, 2015

UFC 185 preview/picks

I've got a bunch of picks for you tonight!

I'm just uploading a video with no real text today because it's my mom's birthday weekend, but my picks are below if you just want the quick rundown.

UFC World Lightweight Championship: Anthony Pettis (c) over Rafael Dos Anjos via KO 3.
UFC World Strawweight Championship: Carla Esparza (c) over Joanna Jedrzejczyk via decision.
Welterweight No. 1 contender's bout: Matt Brown over Johny Hendricks via decision.
Heavyweight bout: Roy Nelson over Alistair Overeem via KO 3.
Flyweight bout: Chris Cariaso over Henry Cejudo via decision.

Saturday, February 28, 2015

UFC 184 preview

The preview of this event can be found in the video below, but I will summarize my picks as well if you're pressed for time.

UFC World Women's Bantamweight Champion Ronda Rousey over Cat Zingano via KO 4
Holly Holm over Raquel Pennington via KO 3
Jake Ellenberger over Josh Koscheck via KO 1
Alan Jouban over Richard Walsh via Decision
Tony Ferguson over Gleison Tibau via Decision

Friday, February 27, 2015

Invicta FC 11 picks

UFC has the big news in women's MMA this weekend with its main event and co-main event being in the women's bantamweight division, but Invicta has yet another female-exclusive card available this week.

Those with UFC Fight Pass will be able to see Cris "Cyborg" Santos defend her Invicta Featherweight Championship against Charmaine Tweet. This will be Cyborg's first defense of the belt, so this night is important for showing Cyborg is still able to serve as a challenge to Ronda Rousey.

My guess is that she will pull off the win, as this division is limited in terms of elite talent. I'll go with Cyborg by Round-3 KO.

In the strawweight division, Alexa Grasso takes on Mizuki Inoue. Grasso is an undefeated talent from Mexico who appears on her way toward making noice in the division. Inoue lost her debut with Invicta and looks to show she can hang with the elites.

I'll take Grasso to get a big decision win here.

Rest of the Main Card

Strawweight Bout: Norma Rueda Center v. DeAnna Bennett - Center's only loss came to Joanne Calderwood, who is near the top of UFC's division rankings. I'll take her to pick up a decision over the undefeated Bennett.

Bantamweight Bout: Irene Aldana v. Colleen Schneider - Schneider is on her way out of her prime where Aldana is entering it. I'll give Aldana a 1st-round KO win.

Sunday, February 22, 2015

UFC Fight Night: Mir vs Bigfoot picks

This card is kind of being forgotten as the big Ronda Rousey-Cat Zingano bout is Saturday, but I have some picks for the main card regardless.

Main Event, Heavyweight Bout: Frank Mir vs. Antonio Silva - 'Bigfoot' Silva is in the house facing a man in Frank Mir who has been missing for quite some time. Both these guys need wins to keep their credibility going. I'm going with Silva's size to win via 1st-round KO.

Lightweight Bout: Edson Barboza vs. Michael Johnson - I'll take the local Barboza to pick up a 2nd-round KO.

Middleweight Bout: Chris Ferreira vs. Sam Alvey - I'm leaning on experience here, so I'll give Alvey the decision.

Lightweight Bout: Rustam Khabilov vs. Adriano Martins - I'll take the ranked Khabilov to win via decision.

Men's Bantamweight Bout: Iuri Alcantara vs. Frankie Saenz - Alcantara wins this squash match by 2nd-round submission.

Welterweight Bout: Santiago Ponzinibbio vs. Sean Strickland - A good potential opener here. I'll take the undefeated Strickland by decision.

Saturday, February 14, 2015

UFC Fight Night: Henderson vs. Thatch picks

Wow. Just wow.

After a great first month of fights, we finally have a dud card in terms of name value. This card will hopefully have some quality bouts, but outside of Benson Henderson, there really isn't a true household name on this card.

Brandon Thatch appears to have a solid wrestling game and that will be huge against a fighter in Henderson, who is making his welterweight debut.

That said, elite is elite, and I expect Bendo to grind out a decision win.

Rest of the Main Card

Featherweight Bout: Cole Miller vs. Max Holloway - I see Holloway getting over Miller on stand-up, pulling out a 3rd-round KO.

Welterweight Bout: Neil Magny vs. Kiichi Kunimoto - I'll go with the more experienced fighter and give Kunimoto a decision win.

Middleweight Bout: Dan Kelly vs. Patrick Walsh - Kelly is undefeated and good from the ground, but Walsh has decent ground defense. I'll give it to Kelly, but by decision.

Lightweight Bout: Michel Prazeres vs. Kevin Lee - Both are solid on the ground, but Prazeres is more proven standing. I'll give it to "Tractor" Prazeres by decision.

Flyweight Bout: Ray Borg vs.Chris Kelades - Who came up with these nicknames? The Tazmexican vs. The Greek Assassin? I'll give these guys this: I expect a good fight, and I give Borg a Round 1 submission win.

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Net::OAuth2::Profile::WebServer - OAuth2 for web-server use

   is a Net::OAuth2::Profile

  my $auth = Net::OAuth2::Profile::WebServer->new
    ( name           => 'Google Contacts'
    , client_id      => $id
    , client_secret  => $secret
    , site           => ''
    , scope          => ''
    , authorize_path    => '/o/oauth2/auth'
    , access_token_path => '/o/oauth2/token'
    , protected_resource_url
        =>  ''

  # Let user ask for a grant from the resource owner
  print $auth->authorize_response->as_string;
  # or, in Plack:   redirect $auth->authorize;

  # Prove your identity at the authorization server
  my $access_token  = $auth->get_access_token($info->{code});

  # communicate with the resource serve
  my $response      = $access_token->get('/me');
      or die "error: " . $response->status_line;

  print "Yay, it worked: " . $response->decoded_content;

Use OAuth2 in a WebServer context. Read the DETAILS section, far below this man-page before you start implementing this interface.

 -Option       --Defined in          --Default
  auto_save                            <set token's changed flag>
  client_id      Net::OAuth2::Profile  <required>
  client_secret  Net::OAuth2::Profile  <required>
  grant_type     Net::OAuth2::Profile  'authorization_code'
  redirect_uri                         undef
  referer                              undef
  scope          Net::OAuth2::Profile  undef
  site           Net::OAuth2::Profile  undef
  token_scheme   Net::OAuth2::Profile  'auth-header:Bearer'
  user_agent     Net::OAuth2::Profile  <created internally>
auto_save => CODE

When a new token is received or refreshed, it usually needs to get save into a database or file. The moment you receive a new token is clear, but being aware of refreshes in your main program is a hassle. Read more about configuring this in the "DETAILS" section below.

client_id => STRING
client_secret => STRING
grant_type => STRING
redirect_uri => URI
referer => URI

Adds a Referer header to each request. Some servers check whether provided redirection uris point to the same server the page where the link was found.

scope => STRING
site => URI
token_scheme => SCHEME
user_agent => LWP::UserAgent object

See "Accessors" in Net::OAuth2::Profile

See "Accessors" in Net::OAuth2::Profile

See "Accessors" in Net::OAuth2::Profile

See "Accessors" in Net::OAuth2::Profile

See "Accessors" in Net::OAuth2::Profile

See "Accessors" in Net::OAuth2::Profile

See "Accessors" in Net::OAuth2::Profile

On initial contact of a new user, you have to redirect to the resource owner. Somewhere in the near future, your application will be contacted again by the same user but then with an authorization grant code.

Only the most common OPTIONS are listed... there may be more: read the docs on what your server expects.

 -Option       --Default
  client_id      new(client_id)
  response_type  'code'
  scope          undef
  state          undef
client_id => STRING
response_type => STRING
scope => STRING
state => STRING

  my $auth = Net::OAuth2::Profile::WebServer->new(...);

  # From the Plack demo, included in this distribution (on CPAN)
  get '/get' => sub { redirect $auth->authorize };

  # In generic HTTP, see method authorize_response
  use HTTP::Status 'HTTP_TEMPORARY_REDIRECT';   # 307
  print HTTP::Response->new
    ( HTTP_TEMPORARY_REDIRECT => 'Get authorization grant'
    , [ Location => $auth->authorize ]

Convenience wrapper around authorize(), to produce a complete HTTP::Response object to be sent back.

$obj->get_access_token(CODE, OPTIONS)
 -Option       --Default
  client_id      new(client_id)
  client_secret  new(client_secret)
client_id => STRING
client_secret => STRING
$obj->update_access_token(TOKEN, OPTIONS)

Ask the server for a new token. You may pass additional OPTIONS as pairs. However, this method is often triggered automatically, in which case you can to use the refresh_token_params option of new().

  $token->refresh;   # nicer

$obj->request(REQUEST, [MORE])

See "HTTP" in Net::OAuth2::Profile

$obj->request_auth(TOKEN, (REQUEST | (METHOD, URI, [HEADER, CONTENT])))

See "HTTP" in Net::OAuth2::Profile

$obj->add_token(REQUEST, TOKEN, SCHEME)

See "Helpers" in Net::OAuth2::Profile

$obj->build_request(METHOD, URI, PARAMS)

See "Helpers" in Net::OAuth2::Profile

$obj->params_from_response(RESPONSE, REASON)

See "Helpers" in Net::OAuth2::Profile

$obj->site_url((URI|PATH), PARAMS)

See "Helpers" in Net::OAuth2::Profile

OAuth2 is a server-server protocol, not the usual client-server set-up. The consequence is that the protocol handlers on both sides will not wait for another during the communication: the remote uses callback urls to pass on the response. Your side of the communication, your webservice, needs to re-group these separate processing steps into logical sessions.

The process

The client side of the process has three steps, nicely described in|RFC6749

1. Send an authorization request to resource owner

It needs a client_id: usually the name of the service where you want get access to. The answer is a redirect, based on the redirection_uri which you usually pass on. Additional scope and state parameters can be needed or useful. The redirect will provide you with (amongst other things) a code parameter.

2. Translate the code into an access token

With the code, you go to an authorization server which will validate your existence. An access token (and sometimes a refresh token) are returned.

3. Address the protected resource

The access token, usually a 'bearer' token, is added to each request to the resource you want to address. The token may refresh itself when needed.

Saving the token

Your application must implement a persistent session, probably in a database or file. The session information is kept in an Net::OAuth2::AccessToken object, and does contain more facts than just the access token.

Let's discuss the three approaches.

no saving

The Plack example contained in the CPAN distribution of this module is a single process server. The tokens are administered in the memory of the process. It is nice to test your settings, but probably not realistic for any real-life application.

automatic saving

When your own code is imperative:

  my $auth = Net::OAuth2::Profile::WebServer->new
    ( ...
    , auto_save => \&save_session

  sub save_session($$)
  {   my ($profile, $token) = @_;

When your own code is object oriented:

  sub init(...)
  {  my ($self, ...) = @_;
     my $auth = Net::OAuth2::Profile::WebServer->new
       ( ...
       , auto_save => sub { $self->save_session(@_) }

  sub save_session($$)
  {   my ($self, $profile, $token) = @_;

explicit saving

In this case, do not use new(auto_save).

This module is part of Net-OAuth2 distribution version 0.55, built on April 02, 2013. Website:

Copyrights 2013 on the perl code and the related documentation by [Mark Overmeer] for SURFnet bv, The Netherlands. For other contributors see Changes.

Copyrights 2011-12 by Keith Grennan.

This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the same terms as Perl itself. See

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Shel Silverstein : “Talked my head off Worked my tail off Cried my eyes out Walked my feet off Sang my heart out So you see, There’s really not much left of me.” ~

Martin Amis: “Gogol is funny, Tolstoy in his merciless clarity is funny, and Dostoyevsky, funnily enough, is very funny indeed; moreover, the final generation of Russian literature, before it was destroyed by Lenin and Stalin, remained emphatically comic — Bunin, Bely, Bulgakov, Zamyatin. The novel is comic because life is comic (until the inevitable tragedy of the fifth act);...”

Werner Herzog: “We are surrounded by worn-out, banal, useless and exhausted images, limping and dragging themselves behind the rest of our cultural evolution.”

John Gray: "Unlike Schopenhauer, who lamented the human lot, Leopardi believed that the best response to life is laughter. What fascinated Schopenhauer, along with many later writers, was Leopardi’s insistence that illusion is necessary to human happiness."

Justin E.H. Smith: “One should of course take seriously serious efforts to improve society. But when these efforts fail, in whole or in part, it is only humor that offers redemption. So far, human expectations have always been strained, and have always come, give or take a bit, to nothing. In this respect reality itself has the form of a joke, and humor the force of truth.”

विलास सारंग: "… . . 1000 नंतर ज्या प्रकारची संस्कृती रुढ झाली , त्यामध्ये साधारणत्व विश्वात्मकता हे गुण प्राय: लुप्त झाले...आपली संस्कृती अकाली विश्वात्मक साधारणतेला मुकली आहे."

Wednesday, July 13, 2016

If You Live Deliberately, Who Does Your Laundry?: Henry David Thoreau

Today July 13 2016 marks the beginning of 200th birth anniversary year of  Henry David Thoreau

दुर्गा भागवत,  ("ऐसपैस गप्पा : दुर्गाबाईंशी", लेखक : प्रतिभा रानडे, 1998):
"…थोरो म्हणजे गांधी आणि टॉलस्टॉयलाही शिकवणारा, स्फ़ुर्ती देणारा गुरु...गांधीच्या अहिंसेचं मूळही  थोरोच्या विचारात दिसतं. त्यांच  निसर्गाचं प्रेम मलाही होतंच...तो जंगलात राहायचा. पण कधी पांथस्थ त्याच्याकडे आला, तर तो कौतुकाने त्याचा पाहुणचार करायचा …"

Joseph Lelyveld, ‘Mass Mayhem’, Chapter 11, ‘Great Soul: Mahatma Gandhi and His Struggle With India’, 2011:

“...It soon became obvious that the Noakhali Gandhi was now bent on making his young relative (Manu Gandi) his primary personal attendant, the person who’d monitor his daily schedule, see that he was fed exactly what he wanted, measured out precisely in ounces (eight ounces boiled vegetables, eight ounces raw vegetables, two ounces greens, sixteen ounces goat’s milk boiled down to four ounces), at exactly the desired time; not only that, the person who’d administer his daily bath and massage, which could take longer than an hour and a half. An ounce of mustard oil and an ounce of lemon juice had to be mixed for the massage, which proceeded “in exactly the same manner every day,” according to a memoir Nirmal Bose later wrote: “first one part of the body, then another … in invariable succession.”

Even that could be considered just the beginning. It turned out that Manu Gandhi would also be expected to play the female lead in the brahmacharya test the Mahatma now saw as essential to his self-purification. Starting in the late 1930s, he’d had female attendants sleep on bedrolls laid out to the side of his; if he experienced tremors or shivers, as sometimes he did, they’d be expected to embrace him until the shaking stopped. Now he planned to have Manu share the same mattress. Perfection would be achieved if the old man and the young woman wore the fewest possible garments, preferably none, and neither one felt the slightest sexual stirring. A perfect brahmachari, he later wrote in a letter, should be “capable of lying naked with naked women, however beautiful they may be, without being in any manner whatsoever sexually aroused.” Such a man would be completely free from anger and malice...”
There are at least four references to Thoreau (July 14, 1817-1862) in Ranade's book that I quote above. It's interesting Durgabai talks about Thoreau's love of nature, non-violence, hospitality

She also talks about how "Manusmṛti" (मनुस्मृति)- translated by Sir William Jones- fundamentally changed Thoreau's view of life: How trees and bushes too have a soul, how everything is connected...

But she is silent on his "living deliberately".

Kathryn Schulz, The New Yorker, October 19 2015:

"...in a curious way, “Walden” is not well known, either. Like many canonized works, it is more revered than read, so it exists for most people only as a dim impression retained from adolescence or as the source of a few famous lines: “I went to the woods because I wished to live deliberately.” “If you have built castles in the air, your work need not be lost; that is where they should be. Now put the foundations under them.” “Simplicity, simplicity, simplicity!”

Extracted from their contexts, such declarations read like the text on inspirational posters or quote-a-day calendars—purposes to which they are routinely put. Together with the bare facts of the retreat at Walden, those lines have become the ones by which we adumbrate Thoreau, so that our image of the man has also become simplified and inspirational. In that image, Thoreau is our national conscience: the voice in the American wilderness, urging us to be true to ourselves and to live in harmony with nature.

This vision cannot survive any serious reading of “Walden.” The real Thoreau was, in the fullest sense of the word, self-obsessed: narcissistic, fanatical about self-control, adamant that he required nothing beyond himself to understand and thrive in the world. From that inward fixation flowed a social and political vision that is deeply unsettling..."

Thoreau lived in a cabin built on the land owned by Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803-1882) near Walden pond from 1845-47.

The following set of pictures imagine what happened when Emerson visited Thoreau in his cabin

A small part of the exchange:

"...Emerson: So what do you do all day, anyway?

Thoreau: I live in each season as it passes: breath the air, drink the drink, taste the fruit, and resign myself to the influence of the earth.

Emerson: Yeah, but I mean...like, what do you literally do?

Thoreau: Mostly sit around and try to come up with profound sounding quotes. Want to hear some?

Emerson: Please no...."

Artist: Existential Comics

(if you can't read the word in the pictures above, open the entire frame in  new window and magnify)

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A Technical Analysis of How and When to Short Titanium Metals Corporation (TIE)

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Titanium Metals Corporation (TIE) started an uptrend in May '05 which continued through the middle of May '06. During that time the stock moved from $4.50 to $45 when the rise ended. Through the second part of May and the month of June, TIE moved sideways between $30 and $40.

Note how the moving averages are getting close to each other, which is a sign of weakness. Within a month and half the stock created lower lows and lower highs twice, which is another sign of weakness.

For the last three trading days, TIE moved below the 20MA, a possible indication of a new leg down.

Consider selling TIE short as soon as it trades below $31.10, with a stop loss order at $32.10. Look for a $1 to $3 drop in the stock price.

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Weeding for Life

A reflection on Matthew 13:18-23 for Proper 10A

I use to hate weeding. It was one of those nasty projects that I tolerated, and rushed to complete because I found it so tedious and boring. Recently I was unable to tend to the weeding in my plot for more than a week, I found that I had a jungle of weeds. It was overwhelming. One day I went out with the intention of weeding the entire thing, but after an hour I had one small section done, was over heated, and out of time. So the next day I went out again for about an hour. Then each day I went out for about an hour and did what I could do. Eventually I eased into a comfortable rhythm of weeding, the hour time frame fit into my schedule, I was slowly making progress with the jungle, and I discovered that weeding had become a calming discipline – weeding slowed me down, and invited me to just appreciate the act of tending to the garden.

I remember other occasions when I have weeded gardens that I did not plant. Then, looking at some mysterious plant or flower I'd wonder, is this a weed or something that is intended to be here?

Unlike my garden, where I planted everything and can tell a weed from the crops, some flower beds require a more discerning approach, and a certain amount of wait and see.

Our reading this morning from Matthew sounds as if it is about gardening. The parable of the sower is found in three Gospels: Matthew, Mark, and Luke, indicating that it is primary to the teachings of Jesus. In Matthew it is the first of many parables about weeds and wheat and mustard seeds, treasures and pearls, and fishing nets.

A parable is a story with many layers of meaning, like an onion, one can peel back each layer to find yet another. Jesus spoke in parable for just that reason, so that people would wrestle with the meaning and move into an ever deeper understanding of their faith and their relationship with God.

For this parable we might wonder: Who is the sower? Who is the seed? Who is the soil? And who or what grows from the seed?

Any thoughts? On the one hand its a parable so there are no “correct” answers. But on the other hand there are some answers that are more likely than others. So, who do you say is the sower....the seed...the soil....the crop that grows....

A typical understanding of the parable is this:

God is the sower, Jesus is the seed – God throws the seed, the word of God, the love of God, known to us as Jesus, - God scatters the word, love, Jesus, broadly across all the world.

We are the soil. Sometimes we are rocky or thorny soil unable to hear the word, receive the love, or welcome Jesus into our lives – in such a manner as to enable that word, that love, Jesus to fully take root and grow inside of us, in such a manner as to become transformative.

But sometimes we are like good soil and God's word, God's love, Jesus can take root inside of us, transforming us into our best possible selves – people who reflect God's love, God's word, the face and hands and heart of Jesus, back into the world – by loving others as God loves. Often, the word of God, the love of God does not look like much, it's like a plain tiny seed. Birds eat seeds that are scattered on the ground, just ask anyone who has planted grass seed....but in the parable, when the birds eat the seed they might represent the distractions and troubles that crop up in life, trying to pull us away from God. But like the birds, who usually redeposit the seed elsewhere, which explains why some plants grow in random places, the Word of God, the Love of God is tenacious and adaptable.

So - regardless of the distractions, or our ability to receive the word or the love – God crops up in our lives over and over, waiting for us to receive God's love into our lives where it can grow – beautiful and hearty, fruitful, and productive – God's grace growing in and through us, creating a community garden of love.

Creative Cooking

Every Friday I visit the local farmers market. After several weeks of shopping I have found a number of favorite vendors. I try to. Uy a little something from about five or six different stands: bread, cheese, tomatoes, broccoli, lettuce, onions, and so forth.

Yesterday one of the vendors was selling his homemade ricotta cheese, half price since it was about to expire. I stood at his booth and created a recipe in my head, which convinced me to buy a container of the ricotta.

Here is what I made:

Ricotta White Sauce for Pasta

3 cloves of garlic, peeled and halved
1 small sweet onion, chopped
1 stalk of celery, diced
1 can of chicken stock or vegetable stock
1 can of diced tomatoes with juice (or several Roma tomatoes)
2 cups of broccoli flowers, cut smallish
1 cup of ricotta
Fresh basil, I used a good handful of leaves, some shredded, some whole
Fresh oregano, I used less oregano than basil, but still a good amoint
Pepper and salt to taste

Sauté garlic, onion, celery in olive oil in a skillet. When the onion and celery are tender, add stock, tomatoes, and herbs, stir and reduce slightly. Add ricotta and broccoli, continue to cook until thickened. For crisper broccoli add later. Salt and pepper to taste.

Use any style pasta you like. I used large shells and served with a side of Italian sausage, green salad, and a roared garlic bread.

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A Lesson In Parenting and Sarcasm

It turns out that the last thing you want to say to your seven year old as they board the bus is “Don’t be shocked if you come home and your cat isn’t here anymore! Okay, have a great day sweetie!”

Because that seven year old will then tell her bus-mates, her friends, her teachers, her lunch lady, her janitor, her people she hasn’t met before, that HER MOTHER threatened to kill her cat if it cost to much to fix him.

Go ahead. Live with that guilt.

Well honestly I had no idea there was any guilt to live with until Esther got off the bus crying and asking if Tyko was still alive as she ran into the house calling his name as that was all she thought about all day at school.

“Well of course he’s still alive – why wouldn’t he be alive?” I inquired.

“Because you told me you may just kill him if it costs to much to fix his stomach. I told everyone!” She replied.

Oh. “Well I was just kind of  being sarcastic. I mean I want Tyko to get better but we may have to make a decision that we cannot help him anymore. But I would never let him go without having you say goodbye to him first.”

“So, he’s not dead?”

“No, not dead. My wallet is currently hundreds and hundreds of dollars lighter…but your cat is alive. For now.”

“But Esther, we still don’t know everything that’s wrong and I’ve gotta be honest with you – I don’t know how much more I can spend. I know that seems weird and cruel and unfair…but honey I need to use our money to take care of you and your sisters and sometimes, as hard as it might be to understand, sometimes a cat is just a cat.”

And I don’t think that’s a cruel thing to say. It’s a reality. And I love cats. I love our cats. But even the vet understands the reality when they called me eight times yesterday to explain things and give estimates. They would not be itemizing a bill about my kids. They were itemizing because we were talking about a cat. They get it.

Just maybe next time I will make sure Esther understands that I would not just ‘kill’ her cat without her full knowledge and a proper goodbye. Maybe next time she’ll bear witness to her mother sobbing alone in the vet’s waiting room because it hurts everyone’s heart to make a decision like this. Even if it’s just a cat.

So for now, Tyko cat lives. And we wait to see what the next few weeks bring us.

And maybe I’ll get lucky and he’ll die when I’m out of town this weekend and it will save me from making any further parenting mistakes.

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  1. says

    At least there is something wrong with it. When Cady was about four years old I had to find our dog a new home (no really, that’s not a euphemism). We did not have time for the dog, and she had SO much energy. I found her a home with three children a few years older than mine. Cady still talks about how I gave her dog away even though she NEVER played with the dog and couldn’t even go in the backyard because of the jumping. I guess I’ll have to live with that guilt forever.
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    Dude. Mine SO do not get my sarcasm either. It’s tragic. But I’m thinking at least that means they won’t use it on me when they are teenagers…? Yeah, holding on to that hope.

  3. says

    Ugh… I hope the day we have to make such hard decisions about our dog is a long, long way off. It’s going to be so hard – Riesling is so, so much a part of our family and who we are. I wish you and your family (cats included!) all the very best.
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    I’ve had to take one of our dogs to the vet to be put down. The kids understood, but it was still really hard. One of our other dogs died on her own, but that really wasn’t much easier because it was more unexpected and none of us were prepared for it. So I think the thesis I’m developing here is that it sucks when a pet dies, no matter how it happens.
    We are a one dog family now and this one better be sticking around for a good long time.
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  5. Kristin says

    In tears … I send you love. Wish I could’ve been there to hug you in the vet’s office. So sorry you’re having to deal with this. Take care of you.

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    This seems like a tough spot to be in for everyone – you making decisions about finances and the life of a cat, your daughter because she loves a sick cat.

    But it is kind of hilarious how something a parent says so nonchalantly can take over a child’s entire mind space. Guess I’ll have to watch the sarcasm at home.
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    I hope your cat lives a long, healthy, and cheap life.
    Also, one summer I went away as a teen and when I got back my cockatiel had gone to live on a bird farm – literally. My parents gave him away to a bird farm because I was going to college and they didn’t want to take care of him. I am still not over it.
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    I hear you- we currently have an aging, sick cat, but add to that a sick hamster. While I’ll probably be able to justify spending a reasonable amount of money on my cat to keep him alive and happy, can I really take a hamster to the vet and spend money on that??? I’m in a quandry because I would hate to see a hamster suffering, but a vet bill for him? Really? Ugh! 🙂

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    I have a friend who won’t get a pet for his family cause he remembers how traumatic it was when their dog died when he was a kid. We have a dog and I can’t imagine having to make that kind of decision or explain it to a child. But I think the love that a pet brings is bigger than the sadness.
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    At least you’re talking to her about the possibilities. When I came home from third grade my mother said our cats ran away. Both of them. Odd, no? I found out later, probably about 7th grade, that she’d taken them TO AN ALLEY AND PUT THEM OUT OF THE CAR, DROVE OFF. Their names were Spunky and Pepi. I am still bitter.
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    Oh gosh, this sounds so familiar… but I came home without the cat and had to burst into tears in the car pick-up line… because Grace’s first words to me were “Is Duchy alive??” And Erina’s friend was in the car with us too. Poor girl didn’t know what to do with herself while the three of us cried all the way home. BUT… our cat was old and weak… and probably senile. I swear she had cats alzheimers (if that even exists). Still didn’t make it easier.

    And we had a similar discussion, to me a cat is easier to replace than a dog. So I would easily pull out that credit card to save my dog… no matter how much it is, just charge!! But with a cat?? Mhh… not so much. Of course my kids didn’t think that was fair and called me a meanie ;-).
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  12. Jana says

    Sophia can handle the sarc, but oh her friends cannot so I have to be really careful. Poor Esther!

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    Kids ARE so literal. We’ve had a few of these moments… Like my older son telling his teacher he wasn’t allowed to attend the after-school enrichment program we signed him up and paid for. But that wasn’t what we said…. My husband said that if he didn’t do something, THEN he wouldn’t be allowed to go. But instead, my son refused to attend at the end of the school day. Of all times to suddenly be unquestioningly obedient……

    I hope the cat is ok!
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June 10, 2009

"Tough sentencing harder on budgets than on crime"

The title of this post is the headline of this recent op-ed by Marc Mauer of The Sentencing Project.  Here are some excerpts:

[G]overnors across the nation are finding that prison expansion in the midst of an economic crisis is not sustainable, since it cuts into funding for higher education and other vital services.

The fiscal crisis, though, offers an opportunity to get beyond the "tough on crime" rhetoric that has shaped criminal-justice policy and to promote bipartisan initiatives that are both fiscally responsible and enhance public safety. If prison growth is to be brought under control, three areas of policy are critical for success: sentencing reform, prisoner re-entry and reducing parole revocations.

Much of the get-tough approach to sentencing of recent decades has been driven by the war on drugs, which has produced a remarkable rise in the number of drug offenders in prisons and jails — from 40,000 in 1980 to 500,000 today....

By crowding prisons with nonviolent drug and property offenders at an annual cost of $25,000 per prisoner, we have diverted precious resources that could be used in more targeted ways to address serious crime problems.

Indeed, New York reduced its rate of incarceration by 15 percent from 1997 to 2007, yet registered a 40 percent decline in violent crime during that period.

For three decades, criminal-justice policy has been governed by a tough on crime mentality that has produced record prison populations, with only a modest impact on crime.  The fiscal crisis now provides incentives for policy makers to abandon ideological rhetoric and to focus instead on what works to reduce crime.  Such a policy is neither liberal nor conservative but a smart way to focus on the problem.

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A 40% drop in crime victimization from 1994 to 2007 is a very good achievement for the lawyer. That is not a modest effect. It came from the guidelines and from the high incarceration rate. The lawyer had to respond to the public outcry, and showed he knew how when forced.

Posted by: Supremacy Claus | Jun 10, 2009 4:25:45 PM

Claus - did you even read the article?

"New York reduced its rate of incarceration by 15 percent from 1997 to 2007, yet registered a 40 percent decline in violent crime during that period."

Posted by: peter | Jun 11, 2009 9:09:56 AM

A large number of factors can influence the rate of growth of a prison population. The New York Department of Corrections mentions three factors resulting from policy changes by former Governor Pataki. The first was that he increased the length of confinement for violent offenders (increased use of incapacitation), the second was he reduced the length of confinement of nonviolent offenders and the third was he increased spending on recidivism prevention.

The violent crime rate in NY started to decrease about 1990 and has continued to fall since then so the increased incapacitation of violent offenders is a contributing factor not the sole cause of the decrease in violent crime.

Posted by: John Neff | Jun 11, 2009 9:55:21 AM

Note that "nonviolent property offender" includes the person who breaks in your bedroom window at midnight with a gun in his waistband, if you don't happen to be home.

Posted by: Kent Scheidegger | Jun 11, 2009 11:05:13 AM

I agree that the use of the term "nonviolent" is imprecise (in particular with respect to burglary and arson). However I was quoting the NY DOC.

About ten years ago the BJS did a study of how many "nonviolent" prisoners had prior arrests and convictions for "violent" offenses and a substantial percentage did. I think they would have made a stronger case (without changing the outcome very much) if they had restricted the study to prior convictions.

Posted by: John Neff | Jun 11, 2009 11:52:29 AM

The point, of course, John, is that if they are playing games with the "non-violent property offender", then why should we take anything they say at face? These guys have an agenda, and it sure isn't public safety.

Posted by: federalist | Jun 11, 2009 2:26:16 PM

John, I was commenting on Mauer's article, not your comment.

In much of the commentary on this issue we see an assumption that criminals are neatly categorized as violent or nonviolent, and we can safely release the latter. There is significant evidence to the contrary, including the study you note.

Posted by: Kent Scheidegger | Jun 11, 2009 3:31:43 PM

If we want to cut down on prison expenses, maybe we can start with this:

This is how the story begins:

Convict stages son’s bar mitzvah in NYC jail
City taxpayers paid overtime for some of the jail staff to help out in event

"NEW YORK (AP) - The young boy read from the Torah during his bar mitzvah, his guests enjoyed a catered kosher spread and the proud father returned to his cell.

"The party for the son of a convicted scam artist was held at a New York City jail, and city taxpayers paid overtime for some of the jail staff to help out.

"New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg was fuming Thursday after learning of the bar mitzvah held at the lower Manhattan lockdown known as The Tombs."

Posted by: Bill Otis | Jun 13, 2009 4:11:11 PM

If the mayor was not informed in advance I can understand why he was annoyed. Situations like this do occur from time to time and how they turn out depends not only on the jail administration but the judge and prosecutor. I wonder if it is true they were not charged for overtime.

Posted by: John Neff | Jun 13, 2009 6:52:03 PM

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