Sunshine

 

A Sunday:

My darling daughter came home from her last cast-and-crew party at 2:00 this morning.  I think I might have fallen asleep another hour after that.  The show was great and the parties were great and another high school milestone -- the last performance of the last musical -- is behind us.

I had to get up early because I was co-teaching an adult ed class at church on the prologue to John's Gospel.  Interesting stuff but not so much after only five hours of sleep.

I've spent much of the rest of the day finishing a paper on a painting of Raphael's.  These art history papers are a genre unto themselves and require a certain attentiveness to the details of conventions unfamiliar to me that tries my ADD soul.  So I called a friend to go birding at a spot where lots of ducks were rumored to have made themselves at home last week.

They were gone.  There is this problem about birds.  They fly.  Away.  I guess they, too, are plagued by ADD.

I've also been fooling around with my journal a bit.  I've added a couple of new links to my "Other Journals" column -- in a new space, allocated to journals that focus on place.  I know that we all write out of the terrain we inhabit, but geography as a focal point is interesting to me, so I'm starting a collection.  I'd love to get some new links.