I received a bag of Amish friendship bread starter today! The timing is somewhat inconvenient, because I'm leaving for a hectic week-long roadtrip on Wednesday morning, but hey, you don't say no to friendship, whatever the form. So I will be tending and nurturing (and "mushing") this bag of sour fluid for the next 12 days.
In other news, I have now purged my room of much of the extraneous junk that I've been accumulating since I got back from Germany. Our "free pile" has seen a lot of activity this week. The filing cabinet has been picked clean, the closet filtered, the bookshelves thinned. I even decimated the small collection of cassettes (yes, cassettes) I've been hoarding under my bed for ages. It's remarkably freeing! I really like the idea of living small... having what I need, yes, but also reassessing and making sure I'm not holding on to stuff out of limp sentimentality or fear of scarcity or just generalized pack-ratty-ness. I kinda want to feel like I'm starting over when I get to Chicago. I like that feeling a lot.
There's so much... possibility waiting for me in Chicago. So many options, so many adventures, so many new friends. I guess I've got more than one "friendship starter"!
Monday, May 12, 2008
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In that filing cabinet cleaning, did you happen to come across a Bible study that fits the following criteria?
-on one book of the Bible (or I suppose books that go together--like I&II Corinthians)
-would require no prep by the leader (except maybe reading through in advance)
-could be used for Adult Sunday School
-I could steal--I mean have to use for the fall?
:)
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