So, I'm not much of a photographer, but sometimes I give it a shot anyway. Like tonight - I saw this lovely play of late afternoon light across my living room wall, and I just had try to capture it. Now, I know my artistic friends are rolling their eyes at me. But I am confident that they'll love me even at my most mediocre moments, so here's my favorite picture of the afternoon:


This artwork is a print of Bonnie Buchanan's painting "The Joy of Solitude." A graceful, lone bird lifts its head into a beam of light in the midst of encroaching, threating shadows. (I love this piece. You get the sense that the bird's not so alone after all.) In the glorious afternoon sunlight, this painting reflects the surroundings of the room: the front door, a floor lamp, and the southern windows of our home. I found this striking today, and wanted to share it with you even though the picture doesn't do it justice.

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Does it crack anybody else up when Donald calls the M. Div. degree a "Master in Division"? It makes me laugh every time! (Maybe that's why he doesn't mind hanging out with me!)

**Correction: DPS informs me that he cannot be credited with coining "Master in Division." That distinction belongs solely to David "Thunder Chunk"/"the Taylorizer" Taylor. Those boys on Washington Blvd. - they repeat each other over and over, so it's hard to keep it all straight!

This Week's Best One-Liner

Kudos for the best one-liner of the week goes to... (drum roll)... David Todd! (*raucous cheers, virtual high fives*)

The abridged background: in the past couple of weeks, there has been a lot of talk about singleness, marriage and life in the church in my social circles. We watched a video in church last week about love - it sort of implied that unless you're married (and happily married at that) you're not a whole person. (And I've been thinking all this time that there is something about self-emptying that's central to the Christian story - how foolish of me!) As we were joking around about this topic in my mentor group, Tera quoted David Todd's response:

Jesus Christ: fully divine, half human

(And I've been laughing about it ever since...)