Most of you know who I am, and know me better than maybe you should. Some of you maybe THINK you might know me, but aren’t sure. And then there are those of you who don’t care if you know who I am or not, and that’s okay, and even expected :o) But since I’ve been asked, I thought I’d give those who are curious a chance to put a face with the name. But click with caution; and, whatever you do, don’t hold it against the blog!
So, have you ever had one of those days? As in, a Friday before a long weekend, after a harried week of trying to hold the office together while your boss is away, while simultaneously trying to move into a new apartment in the city and start a new blog?
I know, I know…cry me a river, and what-not. But I promise, I’m not complaining! The week has been full of blessings. Like, waking up in the city, with the sunrise–in a place of one’s own–and contributing to the 7am pulse of the urban morning commute; like the first frost on pumkins, and mugs of tea, and crisp, magenta leaves; like finding out that CSS is not SO scarey, after all; like having visitors peek at my blog. I love it when you visit my blog :o)
So how can I complain?
Still, it is a Friday before a long weekend, after a long week. And in just 4 minutes, I’ll be free! Free! Free to buy paint and area rugs and silverware for my new place! Free to go to Friday night Bible study and expand my mind and spirit! Free to put a basket on my head and do a jolly jig! Like these two!
That’s how Chiara and Luisa, my two German charges from my days as an Au Pair in DE, celebrate time off.
So, how do you unwind?
Last year at this time, I was just returning to Hamburg, Germany, after spending 3 months in Salzburg, Austria. I was lamenting the fact that I’d somehow managed to corrupt my digital camera’s memory card and lose almost all of the videos and photos I’d captured of the beautiful Salzburg ‘Altstadt’ (the old part of the city). I had nothing to show my friends and family, save a few touristy postcards I’d managed to buy at the train station before leaving. Justslightly disappointing…
Weeks after my return to the States last October, I decided to fiddle with that memory card with the aid of my computer to see if anything could be salvaged. Several attempts proved futile, but I tried one last time. I opened the card file and clicked randomly on a series of folders, all bearing tech-y labels I didn’t understand. I was sure that whatever had happened to the card, I was only making it worse. And then, suddenly,a series of thumbnails appeared. Thumbnails of Salzburg photos! Photos I’d spent hours in the chilly rain trying to capture! They weren’t all there, but my favorite—my absolute, all-time, I-can’t-believe-I-had-anything-to-do-with-that favorite—photo was finally within my grasp.
I found this note in the margin of my Bible yeterday as I was reading through the beginning of the book of Romans:
“The Gospel: the WORD Incarnate. We introduce a person, not a plan. We should talk about Him, not us or what we need to do. (Bixby*)”
And, no, this is NOT an endorsement of a “let go and let God” philosophy… (more…)
This is what happens when you lease a new apartment and start a blog in the same week: you have trouble moving into both of them, and hope no one sees either one! At least, not until you have a chance to clean them up and make them your own. That said, this blog is in far better shape than said new apartment, and if you insist on visiting one or the other, you’ve made a good choice by coming here. Nonetheless, I apologize for the general lack of content at the moment, and hope that by the next time you stumble onto my doorstep, I have a little more to offer you. Until then, enjoy what’s here!
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