Fall is Here
I don't have any pictures, but because it was a dry summer, many of the trees are bursting into yellows and oranges and reds and it's gorgeous. It's also cold and wet. I'm waiting for that last burst of summer. We'll see if we get it. I'm not ready to bundle up for winter just quite yet. After a busy first two months, it's all caught up with me. I've come down with some sort of cold, so I'm home from work early, catching up with the blog, although I'm so far behind, it's almost impossible to catch up.
One highlight that I do want to mention is that this last weekend Huston Smith came to Unity Church for a Morgan Forum (on Saturday) and to preach on Sunday. Juliana and I were lucky enough to have dinner with him on Saturday night and it was remarkable. He's quite hard of hearing and he was tired because he had been lecturing all day, but he still had a sparkle in his eye. We talked a bit before dinner, and he told us he was excited to get home because he couldn't wait to celebrate his 62 wedding anniversary with his wife (he was in St. Paul for the actual day and he was going to celebrate when he when he returned Sunday night.) Anyway, after sharing a few stories, Huston told us about a street person he befriended in Berkeley, Cal. He would sing a song to him and then give him a dollar and then other times, this fellow would sing to Huston, and then Huston would give him a dollar. They swapped songs with each other. Anyway, this started us off, and we sang songs together all through dinner - spirituals, hymns, you name it, we sung it! Then we sang him off to bed...it was
a magical, unexpected moment, a moment of grace perhap
s.
I've been doing some work around the house, too, which has been rewarding. I've also learned that some projects aren't as easy as I think they'll be! I wanted to replace the stairs leading down to the basement, and even board some wood to do so, but messing with stairs is way more work than I realized, so I ended up just repainting them and putting ne
w 
treads on them. I'll post some more photos later on, but right now I gotta run.
One highlight that I do want to mention is that this last weekend Huston Smith came to Unity Church for a Morgan Forum (on Saturday) and to preach on Sunday. Juliana and I were lucky enough to have dinner with him on Saturday night and it was remarkable. He's quite hard of hearing and he was tired because he had been lecturing all day, but he still had a sparkle in his eye. We talked a bit before dinner, and he told us he was excited to get home because he couldn't wait to celebrate his 62 wedding anniversary with his wife (he was in St. Paul for the actual day and he was going to celebrate when he when he returned Sunday night.) Anyway, after sharing a few stories, Huston told us about a street person he befriended in Berkeley, Cal. He would sing a song to him and then give him a dollar and then other times, this fellow would sing to Huston, and then Huston would give him a dollar. They swapped songs with each other. Anyway, this started us off, and we sang songs together all through dinner - spirituals, hymns, you name it, we sung it! Then we sang him off to bed...it was
a magical, unexpected moment, a moment of grace perhap
s.I've been doing some work around the house, too, which has been rewarding. I've also learned that some projects aren't as easy as I think they'll be! I wanted to replace the stairs leading down to the basement, and even board some wood to do so, but messing with stairs is way more work than I realized, so I ended up just repainting them and putting ne
w 
treads on them. I'll post some more photos later on, but right now I gotta run.
posted by Justin Schroeder at 1:57 PM
2 Comments:
Looks good, dude! Light posting at the Duoteam HQ, too, not sick yet but pretty far behind in almost everything I've got going... Makes posting tough. Ah well, somehow I found time to brew this morning before work! :)
Hope you feel better soon.
It does look good, Mr. Homeowner! A little paint and fresh tops make the stairs look new again. Your evening out with Huston Smith sounded great. it's neat that in your position you get to meet such interesting people.
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