I've been enjoying my sabbatical time a great deal. I miss everyone from our congregation, but I'm loving this opportunity to spend the spring/summer with P. We've been laughing a lot! Also, Truffle is loving this new arrangement (shhhh, we haven't told her that I'll be back to work in September. We'll cross that bridge when we get there....). She approves of this sabbatical.
We have been sorting through the ten gazillion (roughly) containers in our downstairs storage locker that are labelled "Keepsakes". Good grief. Who knew we had so many "sakes" to "keep"? The fun part is going through old yearbooks and report cards. The most hilarious moment so far was finding P's school picture from Grade 2. So, he's 7 years old in this picture, wearing a shirt and bow tie (too cute!!!) and sporting the SAME HAIR CUT that he's had since I've known him.
I don't know about you, but that sounds to me like a bit like a rut. He seemed to think it was all redeemed by the fact that in high school he went through a brief period of shoulder-length "Fabio" style hair. A brief sojourn into hair rebellion, then it was back to Haircut Number 3 on the barbershop wall.
*snerk*
I have done plenty of reading so far as well.
Sabbatical related: "Padres in No Man's Land" by Duff Crerar. "Peacetime Padres" by various authors. Great books, both of them! Interesting material that is clarifying for me the complex relationship between "Church" and "Military."
Non-sabbatical related:
The Best Laid Plans and The High Road by Terry Fallis. If you follow the Canadian political scene and would like abreak from its inherent frustrations, you will LOVE these books. The best Liberal politician that never was, Angus McLintock, will have you laughing out loud.
Another good read was What Alice Forgot by Lianne Moriarty. The book is set in Australia, which added another element to an already interesting premise: What would it be like to wake up and have a decade of your life missing?
There have been a few others, but this post is long enough. I will finish what has become a summer book-review post with the book I am presently reading. "Let's Pretend This Never Happened" by Jenny Lawson is another laugh-out-loud book, but only if you have a VERY dark sense of humour (which I do) and your sensibilities won't be forever damaged by coarse language. Also, there is plenty of zombie and vampire talk, so if that gives you nightmares consider yourself warned.
The thing with this book, set in rural Texas, is that a few friends (*cough* Rach & Mindy *cough*) come to mind about every other page. Funny how some books just remind you of special people. Must have been the zombies.... (spoiler alert: Mindy, so far there has been no mention of clowns in this book. I would tell you if that were the case. Probably.)
Soooo......that's it for now. Once this rain lets up and the summer arrives, I will be putting in some excellent patio time and reading more books. When I need a break from that, I'll be walking and enjoying the lilacs, or taking my bike out on the road now that it's been freed from the crowded prison of our formerly messy storage locker. Yaaaayyyy!!!!!
Happy Summer!
2 comments:
I know who Duff is! He is a really nice guy. He inspired my son as a student in one of his classes, too.
Hope, it is so hilarious that you know Duff. You and I are now a living example of the reason that people "from away" say to us: "Hey, you're from Canada! I know someone in Canada - his name is ______. Do you know him???"
Apparently the answer is Yes.
Small world! Duff was very helpful in directing me toward other journal articles and books for my research as well. Lovely gentleman.
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