There’s only one seat left when I get on the track bus. Well, two seats really, but the one in the front technically belongs to a baby, and she should probably stick with her mom, Distance Coach, for now. That leaves one seat, way in the back. It’s been ages since I was a “back…
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TeachBeyond Orientation: Quantitative and Qualitative
Quantitative Date: 2010/6/24 Local Time, 24-Hour Style: 18:57 Celsius Temperature: 27° New Missions Staff to Orient: 39 Continents Where We’ll Be Working: Three (Asia, Africa and Europe) Denominational Backgrounds: Many God to Serve: One Qualitative Greetings from Minnesota! I’m writing from my second (and last) night of TeachBeyond New Staff Orientation, which I’ve “stopped by”…
Daydreaming
Bike route from my new town, Wollbach, to BFA We’ve become so used to looking down at the earth from above. At the spiny knuckles of mountains or shrew blue oceans, we look from plane windows at places we’ll never land. The view from European flights is patchy, agricultural collages far more intricate than those…
Bright Things (Come to Confusion)
Swift as a shadow, short as any dream; Brief as the lightning in the collied night… And ere a man hath power to say ‘Behold!’ The jaws of darkness do devour it up: So quick bright things come to confusion. A Midsummer Night’s Dream (I, i) I am ending the Ingraham ninth grade year with…
Gluten Free Waffles (and what they tell me about the future)
I only want a tuna melt. When I moved out of the dorms and had to learn to cook not just once in a while, for amusement, but every single night, tuna melts were one of my first regular meals. They’re delicious, tuna melts, a magical marriage of mayonnaise and meltiness, all bound together with fish. …
The Way Home 