For my sanity, I have to get away by myself. I need solitude in order to regain my balance.
Solitude plus nature is just about pure bliss.
So – this weekend was a treat for me. It was needed for many reasons and it was good. Here is where I stayed.
But now, I’m back and this week will hold many things, including my midterm in Greek. I spent a lot of good time studying this weekend and I guess that is what every spare minute this week will be composed of. It seems as if every time I go back over the paradigms, there is something not quite remembered, so I repeat it again, write it out, read it out, look at it, listen to it. I have learned a lot but there is so much more to remember perfectly.
Well, I don’t suppose I will do perfectly, but I will do my best.
Anyway, I have put a few of the pictures I took this weekend up over at Flikr if you want to check them out. I’ll also be posting some of them this week on my Click blog.
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The ideas that Jordon speaks about here keep popping back into my head.
I think these changes that make our communities better places are part of what we are called to as Christians, a huge part of how we are to influence our world to become safer more loving places to live.
Read what he says. It is worth your time.
A quote via Sojourners
Not everything that is faced can be changed, but nothing can be changed until it is faced.
– James Baldwin,
writer and civil rights leader
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A bit ago the people who make these interactive maps asked if I would consider allowing them to shortlist a phot I took last summer when Leo and visited The Field Museum in Chicago.
The museum is a fascinating place holding a collection of archeological finds to insects and natural science displays. It holds something that will entrance people of all and almost any interest. My photo looks down into the open main floor and entrance hall. It really requires more than a day to explore. Only problem is sensory overload – there is so much to see.
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This morning when I got to work, I was met with the fact that our outside door had come unhinged.
That’s right. Had completely come off its hinges.
Its a big glass door and as the staff opened up this morning, it kind of came off in their hands. And of course the frame of it is metal. Metal that gets very very cold when it is -33 outside. T and K grabbed it with bare hands. Now they have little spots of frostbite where they had to hold on to it.
How does a boss thank those two for such dedication to door preservation?
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Last night I was part of an orchestra. It was so much fun playing and having drums and trumpets and a choir behind us.
It covered up for all the parts I did not play well. And, besides, I was not carrying the bass part all by myself. There were 5 basses all together – four of them a whole lot better at it than I.
I struck up a conversation with the 11 year old young man standing beside me. He said something to the effect of, “I like your bass style when we are playing the jazz parts.” And I thought to myself, “Wow, I like your style when you are just playing anything.” How wonderful to be 11 and already so good.
I didn’t talk much to the other bass player. They were teenagers and – well maybe that says it all.
I guess I have a long standing acquaintance with the conductor. His wife and I sang together in our high school years. He came over and talked to me during one of the practice breaks. I had kind of lost track of Judy and so, although his name was so familiar and it triggered that feeling of “he knows me and I should be able to place him,” I could not be sure. Now I know and Judy and I will have to reconnect.
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