Z-Notes 5/27/21

May 27, 2021

Farewell (almost), Third Church Friends! The first edition of Z-Notes was dated June 4, 2020. A lot of water has flowed over High Falls since them. And here is my…

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Z-Notes 5/20/21

May 20, 2021

Greetings, Third Church Friends! One more picture from my daughter’s graduation. We had a wonderful, celebrative, pride-inducing time. Then, I went back to Xenia and worked daily in my gardens. …

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Z-Notes 5/6/21

May 5, 2021

Greetings, Third Church Friends! I’m on the road again today, heading for Ohio, then Illinois, to celebrate with my daughter, Emily, as she concludes her formal medical education. The pic…

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Z-Notes

April 29, 2021

Greetings, Third Church Friends! The Easter-season lectionary readings direct us to consider some of the more familiar stories from John’s record of Jesus’ life, even though we focus mostly on…

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Z-Notes 4/22/21

April 22, 2021

Greetings, Third Church Friends! I was home in Ohio for a couple of Thursdays. I got to chat and dance with my daffodils before they took their rest for another…

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Z-Notes 4/1/21

March 31, 2021

Greetings, Third Church Friends! OK, so it’s Maundy Thursday and not Easter Sunday. Probably my favorite floral moment of the year comes when my daffodils throw themselves open to the…

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Z-Notes 3/18/21

March 18, 2021

Greetings, Third Church Friends! We call our family the TTZ Team. My wife, Patricia Tillou, didn’t drift down the alphabet when we married. Hyphenating our names for the kids seemed…

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Z-Notes 3/4/21

March 4, 2021

Greetings, Third Church Friends! March roared in like a lion. In spite of the windy coldness, we allow optimistic thoughts to wonder across our minds—like we are approaching the end…

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Z-Notes 11/12/20

November 11, 2020

Dear Third Church Friends and Supporters, It seems like a generation or two ago that I placed one bookend of our 2021 Generosity and Gratitude campaign at Third Church. We set…

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