Author Archives: Matthew Gedeon

The trouble with the world is

If you can do anything you like, how are you to know what you like until you try it?

You jolly well can’t like everything, and who’s got time to try them all in the first place?

Problem! Life is simply too short.

Solution! A better one awaits.

How do I know? Well, that’s a long story, but it begins in a garden and ends with a wedding involving the Lion of Judah. Most of the story happens in what we would call the past, but the best parts are still to come.

Just think of that, a book spanning all tenses written vicariously by a God who is in all times and effecting good always! You can’t beat a story like that. No author has been able to touch that and no one ever will.

Insults

“An insult is just a complement taken without creativity.”

“The best insults are always unintentional, and mostly true.”

“No one can insult you if you never care. And also, no one can love you. You really can’t have both.”

Snow title

I gotta watch it with all these pictures, My blog is going to turn into a photo blog. I just can’t resist snow pictures. I think it has to do with growing up in the south. I never took snow pictures because it was hardly ever impressive.

Healthy in New England.

I remember when my dad made me till a vegetable garden with a maddox.

In the middle of a Mississippi summer, this was brutal. Of course, I did appreciate the muscle tone I suddenly had after three weeks of using this monster. I was about 12 I think, but the ground was an awful clay stuff that stuck to the maddox making it even heavier than it already was if I tried to do it while the ground was wet…and would hardly give way if I tried to till while the ground was dry.

I forgot to mention that I wasn’t alone. My younger brother and I would take turns at it. I probably would have burned out pretty quick if it hadn’t been for the friendly competition.

I didn’t find out till I was looking for a picture of a Maddaxe just now, that it wasn’t a madaxe, it was a maddox. I had been pronouncing it slightly wrong for the last 15 years. Fortunately, it’s not a word you use every day.

 

I suppose every post should have a point, so my point is this:

Snowy New England winters offer much better ways to get in shape!

If you run out of driveway to shovel, shovel a neighbor. If you run out of neighbors, shovel the yard!

When you come in, you will wonder who turned the heat up to a thousand degrees, but the health benefits are wonderful!