We started the summer doing lots of biking and looking about our new environs, but it's now hard to find time to get to the grocery store, let alone a museum or a show. We can walk from the apartment to shop for most anything, which saves a lot of time and energy. My sister, Liz, is coming to visit December 3 weekend, and Ann-Marie's brother and his wife will be appearing around Thanksgiving. We will probably go to Crown Point, IN to have a holiday meal with them and AMF's grandmother whom they will also be visiting. I think Lynne Victorine and Dane will be seeing us sometime over the holidays too.
School is very challenging.
I am taking UU History, Liberal Theology, Hebrew Bible, Ministerial Formation, and on the side a MacArthur Foundation-funded seminar in Ecumenical Leadership. I am also in charge of the food and drink for our weekly vespers services. I am starting on the three 20-page papers that will be coming due directly and managing to keep up with the reading which probably amount to at least a couple hundred pages a day. In the course of my ruminations over the last week or two, I realized that I have already been irrevocably changed by this process. This is good.