CaminoPasadena (Mel/he/him/siya)

Peace without justice is not peace, and Love without truth is not love.
Liberation must make space for both righteous anger and steadfast compassion.
#NoKings

If a Kpop Demon takes your soul and you become a missing person, isn’t that like getting raptured ?
#kpopdemonhunters #kpoprapturehelpers

Based on a conversation we had this weekend. Apparently, I look at everything through theological lenses. Husband helps me keep it real. (And yes, Jinu is hot). #kpopdemonhunters

At lunch with my college students, one engineering, undergrad, and one a doctoral engineering student, I talked about my first beeper. They looked at me sadly, because I was once again talking about some technology that they had never heard of. #oldcollegeChaplin.

Love it when the students are back and drop in on their campus chaplain #CanterburyUSC

I’m so sick of this
I’m just so tired
Give us strength Lord
Give us hope

Happy day of Simeon Bachos!

Covid+
Not exactly a convenient time

Sabbath day sabbath day. Slept in. Walk to have brekkie with a bestie. Search for local independent bookshops and thrift stores (yup still thrifting since fire). And then the pool to cool down. Playing “Happy” in my head

As an early GenX, this time of year always amazes me as I watch countless parents walking their children to elementary school.

Trying to figure out how the National Air and Space Museum focuses too much on slavery… or the zoo. Or the castle. Or the postal museum. #Smithsonian

Maybe @Target CEO Fiddelke will hear the voices of the former customers, including the good people of Minneapolis. We stopped going and will remain former customers unless Target recognizes we diverse folks as stakeholders and not opportune wallets

This was one of my favorite icons. It used to hang in our living room, depicting a spectacular mosaic of the Koimesis (Assumption of Mary, Feast Day Aug 15) inside the Chora Church in Istanbul (April 2010 trip). I got it in Ephesus

Holy Mary, pray for us
#AltadenaStrong #EatonFire

Transfiguration in front of us - a review of Jesus Christ Superstar starring Cynthia Erivo and Adam Lambert Watching Jesus Christ Superstar at the Hollywood Bowl, with Cynthia Erivo as Jesus and Adam Lambert as Judas, was not just a night of theat...

I had the privilege of going to the Hollywood Bowl to witness this amazing show. Here's my review and reflection on this production. letallwhoarethirstycome.blogspot.com/2025/08/tran... #jesuschristsuperstar #cynthiaerivo #adamlambert #andrewlloydwebber

MIL moving to a senior living center and will have wifi. Refuses mobile phone or tablets. Wondering if an Echo show might be something that can share family photos without freaking her out. Thoughts? Alternatives?

So much fun at #minneapolispride and didn’t even miss Target

What is with this over-reaction in LA? We had more problems after the Dodgers won the World Series last year. It was a peaceful Pentecost baptism morning and fun Pride parade day. Come on, The media and the feds need to chill. Pics are from this morning where the protests were

My husband and me.

I can see IBM, HP, and Paramount. But et tu Apple, Vogue, and AmericanAir ? #pride

❤️

Finally, we will be able to find deep dish pizza in Italy

Wow. Takes longer to renew my driver’s license than to elect a pontiff

'Disgusting' Marjorie Taylor Greene says 'God has defeated evil' after Pope dies Marjorie Taylor Greene was chastised by lawmakers in 2022 after she harshly criticized the Vatican over its support for pro-immigration policies

May God gave mercy on her as she has not shown to anyone
www.irishstar.com/news/marjori...

Yesterday I wrote my Good Friday sermon and had a good cry (like I did when I wrote my Ash Wednesday sermon).

Then I was switched to Easter Vigil. Just wrote that one. Cried even harder.

#GriefIsHard

Going through active shooter training at church and I am totally saddened and totally unsurprised that all the young adults have already been through this training since elementary or middle school

Today we have no schedule.
No fire recovery. No church. Just us. Breakfast, maybe a walk.

Weird.

For those who come from wetter climates:
What’s an effective way to do Ashes to Go when it’s supposed to be raining?