I’m leaving for France in 2 weeks, and though I’ve been sorting through a heap of complex, conflicting, and intense emotions while preparing to leave, the most prevalent has been an immense sadness at leaving my wonderful friends in Santa Barbara. A blog entry about my community in SB has been a work in progress for a while now, mostly because it’s such a challenge to put words to how fantastic these people are and what they have meant to me. In the meantime…
I spent my second-to-last weekend in Santa Barbara (I’m big on the countdowns) checking things off my list of Things I Must Do Before Leaving Santa Barbara. I walked downtown and enjoyed the Southern California sun on State Street, spent some time at Butterfly Beach, went hot-tubbing, enjoyed some authentic Mexican cuisine (trying to get as much of that in as possible before I go!), visited the Santa Barbara Mission and Natural History Museum, fellowshipped at the ever-awesome SB Community Church, ate at In N Out, and played a game of Settlers of Catan. Actually, I could probably write a whole blog about our game of Settlers. Why is that game so awesome? Anyway, it was such a wonderful weekend of just existing in this wonderful place.
I also spent a lot of time reading Anne Lamott’s Traveling Mercies this weekend. More accurately, I’m kind of devouring the book—I read about one-third of it just today. I can’t believe it spent so long in my queue of books-to-be-read; I should have bumped it to the front of the line long ago.
On the agenda for tomorrow: second-to-last day at work (there I go with the countdowns again) and the most lovely thing to ever happen to the dreaded Monday—Family Dinner.
2 comments:
so.. at this point, my favorite part of your blogs are the titles, being that i already know the stories in them. keep up the spring sing honors.
Ah, countdowns! The thrills and the terror of it all :-)
I really love Lamott's Traveling Mercies. Definately one of my favorite books. And we can't help loving anything by Al H. after how awesome he was in Holland last summer, eh? I had lunch with Deb a few weeks ago and she is just as amazing as ever. Just started Irresistible Revolution and Pete Greig's new book, God on Mute: Engaging the Silence of Unanswered Prayer. Both fantastic so far.
Well, all of this is just to say hello and glad you're lurking. Prayers going up on your behalf as you make the move. Aix will be brilliant, no doubt. I love that team to pieces!
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