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G: Saturday John and I went to open the Crazy Quilt Music Festival at our town center - by joining in a drum jam with the Greenbelt Drum  Circle. John played didj and I drummed and did some tambourine action. We drummed from about 11:15 (we were late) until almost 1pm. Then we left because I was going to Izolda's open house for her new office. We never did make it back to the festival.

At Izolda's open house we did a short session of yoga and then I hung around a while longer chatting with people. It's a nice new office and she and her office mate have decorated it nicely.

I left there so that John and I could go up to Columbia to have dinner with Dave at Mango Grove, a vegetarian Indian Restaurant. I got my usual, Masala Dosai, as sort of a test - it's one of my favorites so I can compare veggie Indian places against each other by how good it is. The dosai was huge, but the filling was nothing special, in fact, it had some hot green peppers in it that I mistook for a green bean and got a mouthful of hot that I didn't expect. But I survived it. The coconut chutney does not compare to Udupi or Woodlands.

The service was a bit slow. The (Indian) people next to us pitched a fit. It seemed like another table got some food before they did even though they ordered first. They were yelling at the waitress (owner?) and went on and on about it. When the waitress wasn't there one of them said that they wouldn't get charged for their food and that it would be okay.

We spent a lot for a dessert that took a while to arrive and was pretty bad. Dave left ahead of us to get tickets to the movie we were going to see at Muvico. We met him and Gavin and Griff to see Hot Fuzz.

After the movie we went back to Dave's house to play Wii. We had fun for a while but we were tired and went home after less than an hour. Wii looks like it has a lot of fun silly games.

On Sunday we went to yoga and then John went to Woodlands with the gang and Alison came back to my place to have a smoothie with me. Have I told you what I put in my smoothies? I start with fresh squeezed orange juice, add banana, kiwi, pineapple or pear or both, any other fruit, flax seeds, walnuts, frozen wild blueberries, and spinach and/or kale. Blend it all up and add a date or two if you need it sweeter.

We hung out a while and I had planned to go to the studio but I ended up doing yard work the rest of the day. I got the leaves all raked and bagged and a few other smaller jobs done. It was a glorious day for it and I enjoyed it.

Monday I did get into the studio for several hours. I have to reapply already - I have it for about half a year now and I should get it for at least a year more unless they kick me out! I took photos of some of my recent work for the application and glazed 12 plates and several mugs.

J: The Catholic Church has decided that maybe unbaptized infants can be baptized by God and therefore maybe Limbo doesn't exist. Of course, that starts a small domino effect which widens the hole of doubt-over-faith in other areas. If non-baptized babies might be saved, then it follows that non-baptized children and adults might be saved. In their official statement the Church has admitted this, saying that the standard teaching that there is "no salvation outside the church" must be reinterpreted as possibly incorrect. From the Catholic News Service:

Through the centuries, popes and church councils were careful not to define limbo as a doctrine of the faith and to leave the question open. That was important in allowing an evolution of the teaching, the theological commission said.

If only they had approached more of their basic beliefs with such openness to questioning and evolution of ideas. Of course, if that were the case, Catholicism wouldn't be a religion, it would be more like Science.