Star Trek – Lee Duigon

Ready for the Next Hurdle?

leeduigon(patty)January 12, 2025

I could follow this cat into dreamland.

Our “hospital at home” program is almost finished. They’re trying to clear up a urinary tract infection that has proved to be stubborn. So the visiting nurse has come and gone, after administering two antibiotics, and we are fruitlessly trying to get a refill of Patty’s prescription (can’t breathe without it!). They like to keep you on hold for half an hour and then disconnect you.

Then there’s the operation on the colon cancer, toward the end of February. I hope it’s not toward the end of me.

Oh, I pray we have a quiet afternoon! We have another nurse at suppertime, assorted couriers, and calls from doctors and administrators somewhere in Dallas, TX (don’t ask).

When I was a boy, to talk on a TV screen with someone a thousand miles away, live, was the stuff of science fiction–all very Star Trek. I can’t get over how much of it is now part of day-to-day reality that everybody takes for granted.

Holy cow, man–you made it to the future!

Mr. Spock He ‘Is’ Reel!!!!

leeduigon(patty)October 22, 2021

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I bet yiu has heered that Mr. Spock “he” “Was” reely somb ackter naimed Lennerd Kneemoy,, whatt “A” big fatt Lye!!!!!!!! I bet you heered thay wasnt reel Poynty Eers on himb!!!! The thing Is,, themb Repubickins thay doughnt “wahhnt” no boddy to bee Hapy axsep themb!!!!!!!!!!

Our lexture gye he wood knot Give “his Naim” becose then Racists thay wood Ass-ass-onate himb!!!! But he sayed Starr Treck “it” Is “alll” Reel and thare reely is Starr Schips and Cling-ons and Skotty and Captin Kurk whoo hased bin Pretending he “is” a Ackter naimed Wilbum Shattner!!! Thay “Are” alll Up Thare flyin Arowned but the guvvermint thay whil Killl yiu becuase It “is awl” Topps Seckrit!!!!!!!

The lexture gye he sayed I know “Starr” Treck” “it is reel!! Becose I SEEN Mr. SPOCK and hee done The Vulkin Mined Melled on me to re-stoar My Sannaty!!!””” Witch like toatully Prooves it!!!!!

On Valentine’s Day

leeduigon(patty)February 14, 2017

Cutting back all the confusing extras, Valentine’s Day is about marriage; and marriage is about a man and a woman becoming, in the sight of God, one flesh. And one spirit, too.

Patty and I will celebrate our 40th wedding anniversary this summer. That means we’ve been married long enough for me to learn and understand what marriage is.

The thing is, that if you do it right, your marriage grows. It grows deeper. It’s not only that occasionally the same words come out of your mouths at the same time, which always delights us when it happens. It also means that we can and do trust each other–with anything and everything, at all times. This encourages us to think we’re doing marriage right.

I sometimes call my wife “Scotty,” a Star Trek allusion to James Doohan in the engine room who keeps the starship Enterprise fully functional so that Captain Kirk can fight the Klingons. No Scotty, no starship. Sometimes the ship encounters real difficulties, and Scotty has to untangle some very complicated knots.

But I often think of her, too, as the wife described in Proverbs Chapter 31, who does, like, everything–and I do mean everything. I literally could not be writing this, but for my wife’s diligence and wise management of our household.

We have a lot on our plate, just now. Today, for instance, it’s Aunt Joan’s extremely complicated finances. You could tear your hair out by the roots. But we go on, our work continues, because God has blessed us by uniting us in marriage. We are a team. We are two in one. We do together what neither of us could possibly do alone.

Later I’ll tell you about the nice gift Patty gave me for Valentine’s Day; but just now, duty calls again and we have to run off to the bank.

But I’ll tell you this: forty years is no way long enough.