Tuesday Notes

We had two babies born to church families today. Clara Daniella Whitmarsh came at about 1:30 a.m. -- and just in the nick of time! Dan flies tomorrow to join us here in Colorado for the annual meeting of the Evangelical Covenant Church. He will be ordained on Thursday night. Congratulations to Dan & Karina and to big sister Olivia. (I suspect there will be pictures on Dan's blog tomorrow.)

Then, if that were not enough joy in one day, Joshua & Brooke Bernard had a baby girl at about 4 p.m. I just talked with Josh's mom and she said that they have not yet announced a name. Congratulations, too, to big brother Hayden! All mothers are doing well.

At the same hospital, Memorial Medical Center in Modesto, Abe Mulder had surgery this morning to remove a growth from his neck. Because of where this growth sat it was a particularly dangerous operation. But he did well and is recovering tonight in intensive care.

Today would have been the 100th birthday of existentialist Jean-Paul Sartre -- someone everyone should know about but give little credence to.

Today is the first day of summer.