deliriouslove1970. The life & times of Gary and Denise Flanders. (Free and worth every penny. If you would like to compliment the editor, send to garytheflan@deliriouslove1970.com. If you would like to complain, call your mother.)

We have spent 1/10 of this year in Oklahoma City Oklahoma. What brought us here is our ‘role’ as Trusted House Sitters and our grandson son and his partner who did a sojourn here. As we bid adieu to the land of Woody Guthrie we think of the great things we discovered as ‘honorary Okies’.…

“It becomes more obvious the longer you live that all life is full of patterns. Reality is trying to tell us something. Life is speaking to us. There’s lots of mystery out there, to be sure, and no shortage of chaos and unpredictability. But there’s also lots of meaning . . . messages trying to…

“Nature reminds us of the messiness and beauty of things. . . .” Christine Valters Paintner [An oblate of the Benedictine order, living on the west coast of Ireland] {Oblates are individuals, either laity or clergy, normally living in general society, who, while not professed monks or nuns, have individually joined themselves to a Benedictine monastic community associated with a certain Christian…

“Join the conspiracy of plotting for the common good together.” Brian McLaren [Portrait of Will Rogers located in the Rotunda of the Oklahoma State Capital. Artist Charles Banks Wilson. Commissioned 1963 by the Oklahoma State Legislature.] {When in OKC you must tour the state capital.}

Boyhowdy that was quite a start for The Thunder!

“How happy, how carefree, how joyful you are if you have a friend with whom you may talk as freely as with yourself, to whom you neither fear to confess any fault nor blush at revealing any spiritual progress, to whom you may entrust all the secrets of your heart and confide all your plans.…

“When you looked at me  your eyes imprinted your grace in me; for this you loved me ardently; and thus my eyes deserved to adore what they beheld in you. . . . Let us go forth to behold ourselves in your beauty.” —John of the Cross, “The Spiritual Canticle,” stanzas 32, 36 [Photo by…

“To put it another way, what I let God see and accept in me also becomes what I can then see and accept in myself, in my friends, and in everything else. This is “radical grace.” This is why it is crucial to allow God, and at least one other trusted person to see us…

After hours of work on signs and procuring an appropriate flag, we were ready to head downtown. I even came up with a great quote from a Shakespeare play. (When King Lear completely changes and now has compassion for the poor and homeless.) Gen Z’ers have been using this flag to protest oppression all around…

“I have never been lost, but I will admit to being confused for several weeks.”   Daniel Boone