Showing posts with label 3BT. Show all posts
Showing posts with label 3BT. Show all posts
06 May 2011
3BT Sunday: creativity, Chinese lunch, ducky cake
Correspondence Quarter: 3BT Sunday: creativity, Chinese lunch, ducky cake:
"1. Brad’s sermon on creativity (Genesis 1: “In the beginning, God created”—and we’re made in His image. Great reminder of the creativ..."
"1. Brad’s sermon on creativity (Genesis 1: “In the beginning, God created”—and we’re made in His image. Great reminder of the creativ..."
30 April 2011
3BT Saturday: “You are not alone,” recycling, library (books, Lindt)
1. Early to gym (wearing Megumi’s “You are not alone” T-shirt), followed by tea at Tim’s
2. Recycling during a mid-afternoon snowstorm
3. A pleasant library visit
4. Bonus 4thBT: Reading a new book while eating Lindt chocolate (from the fabulous Fairmans) in a candlelit bath: bliss.
No. 4 deserves a separate category: Annemarie and Carmen left the following Lindt bunny hanging on our door yesterday, but I only realised today that it was ours (we share the house part-time); it was (almost) too beautiful to eat!
2. Recycling during a mid-afternoon snowstorm
3. A pleasant library visit
4. Bonus 4thBT: Reading a new book while eating Lindt chocolate (from the fabulous Fairmans) in a candlelit bath: bliss.
No. 4 deserves a separate category: Annemarie and Carmen left the following Lindt bunny hanging on our door yesterday, but I only realised today that it was ours (we share the house part-time); it was (almost) too beautiful to eat!
3BT Friday: fairytale wedding, spring snow(storm), meeting a deadline
Saturday, April 30
1. Unintentionally I awoke early (after deciding not to!) and got up to watch the wedding of the year (!). Glad I did: the bride was simply beautiful. (Aren’t all brides?) I do love a fairytale—and I think this couple has what it takes to make it last. They’re friends. They both work hard. They seem to share a similar sense of humour. I am smiling as I type.
2. Despite the apparent appearance of spring earlier this week, it is snowing up a wee storm this morn. The garden has been spring-cleaned, and the barren earth is white again. But it’s probably too warm for the snow to settle for long. [post pics]
3. I finally wrote my “More Glimpses” feature article for my patient and longsuffering editor. It is my privilege to write a regular column, and although my due date has come and gone, I chose to focus on teaching/ grading/ editing this week. Yesterday classes ended, and today I could concentrate on the next deadline on the horizon. J
“I love deadlines. I like the whooshing sound they make as they fly by”
—Douglas Adams, English humourist & science fiction novelist (1952–2001).
And now, to nap!
3BT: last day of school, snail mail, fellowship with friends
Thursday, April 28
1. Today I taught my dozen+ college students for the very last time. Next semester I’ll have a new set of students—for two completely different courses (two or three may return). I have enjoyed getting to know these young women and men this past year; this has been one of those semesters in which I possibly learned (even) more than my students did. Today was bittersweet: I know I won’t see some of these precious people again, since they’ll move on with their lives (some to other countries), and I’ll remain here. Ah, the transience of the teaching life.
2. Snail mail! More on that in my Monday Mail post.
3. Tonight our sweet Women in Ministry (WIM) group of gals met for fellowship (and food), also for the last time this semester. I took photos … and will post them here soon-ish.
3BT: overseas phone call, tea in chapel, sunroom salad (+ word gifts)
Wednesday, April 27
1. Early morning phone call from my mom-in-law in South Africa (how lovely to hear her voice; she has been in Australia, visiting RP’s brothers and all her grandkids).
2. Early morning gym with my exercise accountability partner, WB, followed by the last chapel of the semester (cup of Tim’s steeped tea in hand).
3. Lunch in the sunroom (strawberry-mandarin-and-spinach salad) with my kingdom colleague, KM. Peace. Stillness. Serenity after an already long week. Shalom.
4. Bonus of a 4thBT:
Two unexpected word-bearing gifts from students. I’ll post more on Monday. Off to nap now and enjoy my treasures!
3BT: sunshine after snow, scintillating conversation, Emph Attic mail
3BT (“three beautiful things”) today, Tuesday, April 26:
1. Sunshine after weeks of snow!
2. An unexpected phone call from a city friend, TM, who visits me each Wednesday night to ask if I was free a night early. (I was.) Scintillating conversation to follow!
3. Several positive responses to the e-mail version of my annual “Emph Attic” Easter Epistle (really just an updated copy of my Very Long, Very Late Christmas correspondence which I chose not to send out last year, since I was going through a bit of a pre-40th b’day midlife crisis at yearend. All’s well in this new season.
3BT: Three Beautiful Things
Today I decided to join the marvellous miscellany of writers who share “three beautiful things” (3BT) each week. Check out this lovely blog:
http://threebeautifulthings.blogspot.com/
As long as I can remember, I’ve asked my spouse (and others in my life) “What was good about today?” This blog seems to capture the essence of looking for the good, paying attention to life in all its fullness, being aware of the beautiful.
http://threebeautifulthings.blogspot.com/
As long as I can remember, I’ve asked my spouse (and others in my life) “What was good about today?” This blog seems to capture the essence of looking for the good, paying attention to life in all its fullness, being aware of the beautiful.
Was it Fyodor Dostoevsky who said the world would be saved by beauty? Join me in seeing the beauty all around us. Then share the joy!
{Thanks, Clare and others for inviting us to join you.}
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