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three more papers, three more classes

three more papers, three more classes

I really should be working on my Christology paper for Ben but I am in a bit of a block and am trying the blogging as a means of procrastination to loosen up the log jam.  This has worked in the past and I have already gone around the block a couple of times, made myself a cup of tea, and folded some laundry.

Sometimes you just have to stop thinking for a while and let everything sugar out on its…

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downtime with the diva

downtime with the diva

A girl has got to get a little down time.  Which worked out well for me because hanging with a friend breaks up the day, lifts my spirits and brings a little perspective.  Sandra came home for a brief 10 day respite from her new gig over in Leeds.  As in Leeds UK, where she is staring in the opera The Coronation of Poppea. 

And she loves, loves, loves this gig because the music and the direction…

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Tabula Rosa

As predictable as the fall and the leaves turning, returning to school and returning the brain to absorb way too much reading, I am in a flare up.  As in catch a cold, run myself a little ragged, then head into an IC flare up.

I knew it was coming and I call the Dr. at the beginning of last week when I started having the tell-tale symptoms.   The scheduler said to come in last Friday and starttr…

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A clear call

I wish that my call was clearer, as in, I wish that I knew what my call actually is.

Sunday is the day that many of my fellows are robing-up and giving the sermon. Some of them spent the good part of Friday and Saturday looking up passages and going through scholarly notes translating the greek and hebrew into current applications and translations of words.  Others are looking at social justice…

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Trust is built on hope

Trust is built on hope

As I walked into church this morning Mrs. B. a life long friend of my mum and former ANTS student, met me at the beginning of the aisle.

“Morning Mrs. B”.

“Good morning Alex.  I see your President made the front section of the Metro, above  the fold.   What as Andover Newton gotten itself into ” she said as a statement rather than a question and she walked by me and up the isle to her seat in the…

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Love in the bottom of the bowl.

Love in the bottom of the bowl.

My plan was to get up early, head over to prayers at St. Paul’s and then head to class.

That didn’t happen.  I stayed up later than I had intended…… I seem to be doing that lately…and as a result, this morning came way too early.  And it was dark and my bed was warm and I didn’t want to get up.  There was no way I was going to make prayers.

So I figured that I could do some reading and have tea…

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Rushed to the altar

Rushed to the altar

A week before the wedding was about to take place, the groom’s misdeeds came to light.  Not that the groom was still in sin, but that he once was and it  had all  come to light.  And so now, the hall rented, the dress and suits all fitted and the guests all planning to attend, those in the wedding party thought it best to go forward with the service.

Simply wedding jitters,  this will pass and…

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Cooking in Seminary

Massive amounts of reading, and thick stuff too, like Niebuhr’s The Nature and Destiny of Man. And I am reading for papers, which means I am opening the books like opening the cupboard and reaching for ingredients, those quotes and ideas  that I will sprinkle throughout my paper.  I read for a ½ cup of thought from this book and a tablespoon of theory from that because in cooking you use a bunch…

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Swimming Cats and Baby Elephants

Swimming Cats and Baby Elephants

Dreaming a lot lately, vibrate and detailed dreams.   Last night I was back in my house in Vermont and I had a baby elephant as a companion.  I also had a cat who tried to swim a rather busy stream, which surprised me in my dream, because Aggie is a woos, but this cat was male and longhaired and calico, so I realized that this cat was a bit of an upgrade. The cat made it across the river an onto…

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Not sure, mud or quicksand

Not sure, mud or quicksand

The assignment is pretty basic.  Write down a couple of goals you have for this class.  Then the kicker; you can not list passing this class as a goal, that is a give.  So off to meet with the professor as a kinda of confessionary session hoping he would lead me to something that resembled a goad and would hopefully stamp check what I am doing in one class as something I could apply to this…

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Yes, no, wait. He knows my number

Yes, no, wait. He knows my number

A week of setting up the loom, followed by a week of orientation meet and greet and field work with the homeless in Waltham, followed by a full week of classes, logically brings the annual autumn cold.  Better to get it over now and snip it in the bud by “resting” and chicken in the pot and catching up on the reading , then to push forward and go to the seminar and share the wealth and run myself…

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Pray for good weather

Pray for good weather

I feel like a bit of a slug today.   Not really unexpected,  I have been emotionally and physically pretty busy with all of the moving and sorting, unpacking and repacking and giving away and keeping.  Memories in a box, what stays and what goes requires evaluation and has been draining.  But there is light at the end of the tunnel.  

Tomorrow I am heading down to Cataumet and to  go  boating…

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The blue velvet couch has been in my life for as long as I can remember.   I remember being so…

The blue velvet couch has been in my life for as long as I can remember.   I remember being so little that I could not get up on to the couch, as in too short to climb up.  The couch was in my great grandmother’s flat on Commonwealth Ave, then in the big house in front hall, then to the little house when my grandparent’s downsized.  It went with my grandmother to Fox Hill Village and senior…

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Settling in not settling for

Settling in not settling for

I went to the storage unit the other day and signed the notice that I would be vacating it by August 25th which is when the next payment is due.  Then I asked a couple of friends if they could help me move the stuff to the house.  Moving forward, moving forward a little at a time.

I took a couple of boxes with me, one marked vases and the box with the toaster/broiler/mini oven thing that is much…

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Making the Loop

Mum came back from Maine and is leaving again this morning for NH for a few days.  She  is planning to head out to Michigan  after that for a college sorority reunion and then come back, do a quick trip to NH and then head off to Norway to do some trekking.   I am exhausted just thinking about her schedule.  I look positively still compared to her.  She is on the move, busy and active and taking…

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Detailing, inside and out

Detailing, inside and out

This has been self-care week.    Self care as in get some stuff done this week because I have been blowing a lot of it off for a long time.   It is kinda like taking the old car into the shop for the 100,000 mile service and deciding to get the car detailed while you are at it.  You know that something is broken, or needs replacing or something is wearing out, but you might as well have the car…

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I gave my number to a man I don't know

I gave my number to a man I don’t know

“I am responsible. When anyone, anywhere, reaches out for help, I want the hand of AA always to be there. And for that: I am responsible.”

Last night I got to the meeting a bit early, which is what I like to do because I don’t like being late.   There are a few others that are there too,  setting up and waiting for the meeting to begin and down the stairs comes a man who looks like it is his…

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