More on awkwardness in my latest for Ministry Matters: Practicing Awkwardness.

I have an opportunity to do some freelance writing about homelessness for a nonprofit called Invisible People. They asked me about my compensation requirements and I really have no idea what to tell them…

Nathan Goldman: The furor over Ilhan Omar’s remarks is not about anti-Semitism (feels like a potential breach of community mores to post this on micro.blog but here goes)

I am drowning in email today.

Looking for lightweight, well designed donor management software for the Mac (possibly also iOS, maybe web based?). Recommendations?

James Johnston, Study of Skull in Gold, 2019

If you see me in public bent over a computer with my head in one hand staring through my wrist at the screen, it’s likely whatever I’m writing has just started to go from total shit to passably good so PLEASE DON’T APPROACH AND ASK IF I’M OKAY. INFACT I’M DOING BETTER THAN USUAL.

Once as a kid I heard you should drink so many of glasses of water a day so that night I decided to drink a bunch of water before bed using my toothbrush as a kind of spoon. I can’t find that on brand tweet that was going around now but just pretend I could.

I’m going to call my first book: ‘Go Fuck Yourself!’ and Other Unexpected Wisdom in Christian Mission

Someone pulled a knife at Network tonight. No big deal.

I got paid (!) to write about awkwardness recently. www.ministrymatters.com/all/entry… There’s stuff about Jesus but you still might like it.

Embrace the Awkward www.ministrymatters.com/all/entry… My latest at Ministry Matters.

this is what I’ve become

got a tattoo of myself

Last night at Network: talking to a new guy outside. He was looking for his friend who he described as “a dark little pork chop eatin’ mutha fucka.” I said sorry I don’t know him. Then I found a perfect Kit-Kat style Reece’s bar in the middle of the sidewalk and gave it to him.

lol okay just my precious email address to combat this plague? gotcha

I’ll be contributing to Ministry Matters regularly for the foreseeable future. Here’s my latest: www.ministrymatters.com/all/entry…

when you’re at tom’s

What if every State of the Union response no matter who it’s delivered by or when is a just a fart in the wind?

I love the whole ethos around micro.blog. They way they communicate with users is straightforward and human. You get as much access to the guts of the platform as you need. Their pricing is fair. Reallly can’t speak highly enough of the experience I’ve had so far.

today

Tonight I’m not feeling so good about losing this job.

I not only lost a job in January, I’ve also lost 18 pounds since the beginning of the month.

Found out on Wednesday that I’ll be losing one of my jobs in the next month to month-and-a-half or so. I’ve been working part-time at Father Woody’s Haven of Hope for about six months now after working there in the same position, only full-time, for over a year before that. It’s not a surprise to me that they want to get someone in who can work at the shelter full-time. I think on Mondays and Tuesdays it was probably not that fun to be down a staff member, especially over the last two or three months, which have been hectic.

So, no hard feelings. I’ll stay on through the transition with the new person they bring on and try to leave them in the best shape possible to pick up where I left off. Frankly, it has felt a bit like I was waiting for the other shoe to drop for awhile now. When I first approached Woody’s to see if they’d be open to me going part-time back in June, I thought they’d say no. So I was already prepared then to need to figure something else out.

The good news is I’ve added a couple of paid gigs since then. I’m working as a contractor for The Interfaith Alliance of Colorado (scroll to the bottom of the staff section) and I have an agreement with the website Ministry Matters to contribute two posts a month, starting in February. These pieces don’t replace the money from Woody’s, but it makes it a little bit less painful in the meantime.

Ultimately, I’d like to serve as a Street Chaplain tending to homeless and formerly homeless folks—and maybe even outreach workers and frontline staff—which could also be a part-time thing in conjunction with my time at Network Coffee House and Interfaith Alliance. How that gets off the ground, exactly, is a bit foggy to me. Funding is the main thing, right? And then there has to be some kind of supervisory structure or ordaining body. I have more ideas for the latter than I do for the former, but I’ve learned over the last two or three years that with patience and some attentive receptivity these things can shake out in agreeable ways.

Every time I leave my Airpods at home I regret it.