Yesterday I headed down to Corvallis again to hang out with my friend Julie and do some final Europe-planning. It happened to be the same day as her OSU Chamber Choir concert, so I went to that (which was beautiful), but generally I just hung around and distracted Julie from her upcoming finals. Bwa ha ha.
This afternoon before I drove back up to Portland, we watched Disney's The Rescuers (you know, cute little mice--one with a charming Hungarian accent--rescue a poor little orphan girl from the psychotic pawn-shop-running, crocodile-raising, diamond-obsessed villain Medusa?). Ah, memories. Some traumatic memories, it's true (she's one scary lady), but nostalgia-inducing nonetheless.
Sunday school at her church was also really fun this morning. It's taught by a prof at OSU, and they're going through the ten commandments. Today was on the "Do not kill" commandment, and we had a lively (and pleasant) discussion ranging from imago dei to vegetarianism to capital punishment to retribution. Very interesting. It almost (but not quite) made me wish I was still in school right now.
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"He gave me no assurance. No fixed land. Always one must throw oneself into the wave."
"Who am I? This or the other? Am I one person today, and tomorrow another? Am I both at once? ... Whoever I am, Thou knowest, O God, I am thine." (Dietrich Bonhoeffer, "Prison Poems")
"He gave me no assurance. No fixed land. Always one must throw oneself into the wave."
"Who am I? This or the other? Am I one person today, and tomorrow another? Am I both at once? ... Whoever I am, Thou knowest, O God, I am thine." (Dietrich Bonhoeffer, "Prison Poems")
This week I give God a cheer for:
parchment paper, chalkboard paint, free museum weekends, public transportation, online cultural resources, free apps to help you learn non-roman scripts, science experiments, cast iron dutch ovens, cast iron dutch oven lids which double as a skillets, power drills, gallery walls, taco nights with friends, vegetarian cookbooks, apples on sale, the way flowers brighten a room, new curtains, globes, Friday night outings, engineering paper, movie-makers not destroying my favorite book, movie-makers creating something beautiful based on my favorite book, theater pubs, Gutenberg, sunny-yet-freezing weather, new dishtowels, hand-thrown pottery, the golden ratio, secondhand stores, stained glass, and the word "kerfuffle," among other things.
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