Over Two Years Since Posting

I often find myself too scattered to be of much good. For some time now I've been writing into a leather-bound book, albeit sporadically, and I'd forgotten about my opportunities to write here. Since few people know about this effort, I imagine it's safe to keep something of a record of my thoughts and doings, helter-skelter as they are.

This morning June went to some sort of a health seminar on cancer with Mary Sweet, and I stayed home, managing to mow the front and side yards, buy a voltage tester (the garage electricity has gone out), take a nap in the afternoon, and do some reading in The Cloud of Unknowing. Having read it before, I'm surprised at how much I see upon this second (maybe third) reading.

Earlier in the morning I spoke at some length with CFI's Scott Mandl and brought him up-to-date of my efforts to assemble an itinerary for Ivy Salomon when she comes from Haiti to visit family and friends in the States. It's not as easy as I imagined; her family is spread out all over the U.S. and they too have busy lives that make it difficult for Ivy to drop by and stay for several weeks at just any time.

June and I are doing well as a married couple, even in our seventies. Tomorrow we plan to take Matt and Sara Beth Stout out to lunch somewhere in Nicholasville. I'm hoping we'll get to one of the morning Eucharists at Faith Lutheran Church. If not, then we'll spend the afternoon in Lexington and go to the evening contemplative Eucharist.

I need to study myself in the light of acedia and may get Kathleen Norris' new book on the subject.