- Made (and eaten) chocolate chip, apricot, pecan cookies
- Counselled my first client as an almost full-fledged counsellor
- Been to yoga twice
- Read 2 books
- Been on three dates
- Built myself a new profile website here
- And another site here
- Drank a lot of coffee
- Watched half a season of Gilmore Girls
- Knitting
- Almost been hit by a pickup truck
- Reorganized my bedroom furniture
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Schedule of Events
I’m going to be fairly out and about all over the place for the month of June. So you can keep track of me (and I can keep track of myself):
Sunday, June 6 – Nanaimo for a meeting of the Myanmar delegation. You can become a fan of our Facebook page here.
Wednesday, June 9 – Saturday, June 12 – Portland, OR for Episcopal Village West Mission Event.
Thursday, June 17 – Friday, June 25 – France! Yes, that is correct, I am going to France. Friends own a sailing barge which they are looking to sell (anyone want a boat in the South of France?!?) and I’m going to hang out for a week. I bought a relatively inexpensive ticket on Tuesday and I leave in less than 2 weeks. Crazy, eh?!
Friday, July 2 – Sunday, July 4 – Prince George for my high school reunion and visiting friends I haven’t seen in ages. I’ll be at my old church on Sunday and hope to catch up with some of you then!
Things that Make Me Happy
- New music from the public library
- Being able to wake up without the alarm clock
- Dinner with [new] friends
- Productive meetings for exciting things
- Taking a break and resting in God’s presence
- Quiet reflection and peaceful moments
- Wind and rain to remind me of God’s power in creation
- New toys to play with
- A clean bathroom
- Life calming down (for now)
- Finally getting permission to take 2 courses at once this summer meaning I’ll be done all my course work before I go to Myanmar in November
- A fantastic new dress
- Possible trip in June
Things that Scare Me
Large balances on the credit card/Small balances in the bank account.
Drivers who don’t watch for pedestrians when they pull out of parking lots onto the street or when they are turning onto a busy road.
More than 40 unread items in my Google Reader.
That’s all for today.
Dawning of a Brand New Year
So what if it is January 3 and it has taken me this long to write anything about the new year. Aside from a New Years Eve party that continued until 2am, it feels like the new year has entered with more of a fizzle than a pop; it seems no different than last week.
If anything, I’m more stressed than I was last week.
The next course starts tomorrow and I’ve already been doing readings in preparation for it. Gone are the days when I bought the text book a week or two into the course and read it the day before the final exam. I seem to be working more this week than I have in previous weeks and I have meetings. With the busy advent season over (does anyone else find it ironic that our two church seasons of slowing down and contemplation – advent and lent – seem to the be the busiest time in the church calendar?) meetings that were put on hold are starting up once again. Now is when I discover just how busy I will be with various committees and commitments.
Is it more helpful to look ahead or to dwell in the moment? Some would remind that looking ahead prepares one for what is to come. It can also cause undue anxiety. Others suggest that to dwell in the moment and live each day for what it offers without looking too far ahead (consider the lilies of the field…?) is the supreme way to live ones life. I find that a good balance of the two works well… usually…
What, then, am I looking forward to this year?
- By this time next year, I will be more than two-thirds of the way through my degree (I think, if I’ve calculated it correctly).
- My cousin is getting married in the spring. I get to go to Montreal.
- Ten year high school reunion (holy cow!).
- Work, work, work.
- Hosting a conference with Brian McLaren and Steve Bell
- A possible road trip around BC and Alberta.
- Sailing.
- Visiting our Anglican friends in Burma.
- Having a full summer in Victoria for the first time in… ever?
- Spending time with family and friends.
Book List 2010
- More Ready Than You Realize – Brian McLaren
- Cascadia: The Elusive Utopia – Douglas Todd (ed.)
- Before the Rooster Crows – Peter Kimani
- Assessment in Counselling – Albert Hood and Richard Johnson
- Generation X – Douglas Coupland
- The Wayfinders – Wade Davis
- Non-Violent Communication – Marshall Rosenberg
- Heavy Rotation – Peter Terzian
- Traveling Mercies – Anne Lamott
- Community: The Structure of Belonging – Peter Block
- Striving for the Wind – Meja Mwangi
- A New Kind of Christianity – Brian McLaren
- Sylvia – Bryce Coutenay
- The Way of the Heart – Henri Nouwen
- I and Thou – Martin Buber
Ten Things I Wanted to Be When I Grew Up
- Forensic Scientist
- Prime Minister
- Detective
- Olympic Athlete
- Writer
- Professional Student (wait…)
- Guidebook author
- In a band
- PE teacher
- Photographer
Inspired by Schmutzie.
Book List 2009
- A Thousand Splendid Suns – Khaled Hosseini
- The Enchantress of Florence – Salman Rushdie
- Called out of Darkness – Anne Rice
- The Great Game – Peter Hopkirk
- The Independence of Mary Bennet – Colleen McCullough
- A New Kind of Christian – Brian McLaren
- Finding George Orwell in Burma – Emma Larkin
- The Secret Message of Jesus – Brian McLaren
- Three Cups of Tea – Greg Mortenson & David Oliver Relin
- The Time Traveler’s Wife – Audrey Neffingger
- Moon Cakes and Maple Sugar – Marnie Copeland
- Becoming Human – Jean Vanier
- Bread in the Wilderness – Thomas Merton
- And it was Good – Madeleine L’Engle
- Everything Must Change – Brian McLaren
- The Great Emergence – Phyllis Tickle
- The Giver – Lois Lowry
- How (Not) to Speak of God – Peter Rollins
- Bad Lands -Tony Wheeler
- A Stone for a Pillow – Madeleine L’Engle
- The Green Hills of Africa – Ernest Hemingway
- The Magician’s Nephew – CS Lewis
- Tick Bite Fever – David Bennun
- The Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe – CS Lewis
- Prince Caspian – CS Lewis
- The Horse and His Boy – CS Lewis
- The Jungle Book – Rudyard Kipling
- The Seven Story Mountain – Thomas Merton
- Sex, Sushi, and Salvation – Christian George
- Secret Lives and Other Stories – Ngugi wa Thiong’o
- A Man of the People – Chinua Achebe
- The Black Hermit – Ngugi wa Thiong’o
- The Voyage of the Dawn Treader – CS Lewis
- The Silver Chair – CS Lewis
- Jesus au pays des solviets – Serge Caron
- The Silver Chair – CS Lewis
- A Tale of Two Cities – Charles Dickens
- Take This Bread – Sara Miles
- The Last Battle – CS Lewis
- Sold Into Egypt – Madeleine L’Engle
- The Rock That is Higher – Madeleine L’Engle
- Two-Part Invention – Madeleine L’Engle
- A Sunday at the Pool in Kigali – Gil Courtemanche
- All Families are Psychotic – Douglas Coupland
- The Man Who Loved China – Simon Winchester
- Man’s Search for Meaning – Vicktor E. Frankl
- Mere Christianity – CS Lewis
- A Good Death – Gil Courtemanche
- The Post-Christian Mind – Harry Blamires
- The Lizard Cage – Karen Connolly
- Exit Music – Ian Rankin
- Payback – Margaret Atwood
- The Language of Bees – Laurie R. King
- The Orthodox Heretic – Peter Rollins
- Burmese Lessons – Karen Connolly
- A Fair Country – John Ralston Saul
Book List 2008
- The Restaurant at the End of the Universe – Douglas Adams
- Life, the Universe, and Everything – Douglas Adams
- Velvet Elvis – Rob Bell
- Shake Hands With the Devil – LGen. Romeo Dallaire
- The Gift of Being Yourself – David G. Benner
- Where God Was Born – Bruce Feiler
- The Cloud of Unknowing
- Master and Commander – Patrick O’Brian
- Walking on Water – Madeleine L’Engle
- Brick Lane – Monica Ali
- The Alchemist – Paulo Coelho
- Atonement – Ian McEwan
- Charlie Wilson’s War – George Crile
- Bel Canto – Ann Patchett
- East of Eden – John Steinbeck
- The Picts and the Martyrs – Arthur Ransome
- Siddhartha – Herman Hesse
- Prince Caspian – C.S. Lewis
- No Man is an Island – Thomas Merton
- Daughter of Fortune – Isabelle Allende
- Persepolis – Marjane Satrapi
- Christ the Lord: Out of Egypt – Anne Rice
- Crime and Punishment – Fyodor Dostoevsky
- The Book of Mercy – Leonard Cohen
- Letters from a Traveller – Pierre Teilhard de Chardin
- Our Anglican Heritage – John W. Howe
- The Old Man and the Sea – Ernest Hemmingway
- Great Northern? – Arthur Ransome
- Where God Happens – Archbishop Rowan Williams
- Kim – Rudyard Kipling
- Healing Henan – Sonya Grypma
- Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance – Robert M. Pirsig
- Forging the Future – Diana J. Mansell
- Temperament – Stuart Isacoff
- The Making of a Nurse – Tilda Shalof
- The Birth House – Ami McKay
- The Beautiful Things that Heaven Bears – Dinaw Mengetsu
- An American Childhood – Annie Dillard
- The Grapes of Wrath – John Steinbeck
- The Great Gatsby – F. Scott Fitzgerald
- Hymn of the Universe – Pierre Teilhard de Chardin
- The Book of God – Walter Wangerin Jr.
- The Omnivore’s Dilemma – Michael Pollan
- Finding Our Way Again – Brian McLaren
- The Great Railway Bazaar – Paul Theroux
- Christ the Lord: The Road to Cana – Anne Rice
- Life of Pi – Yann Martel
- The Red Tent – Anita Diamant
- The Edible Woman – Margaret Atwood
- Building the Earth – Pierre Teilhard de Chardin
- Sailing Alone Around the World – Joshua Slocum
- Revolution in World Missions – K.P. Yohannan
- Pacific Odyssey – Gwenda Cornell
- Among the Russians – Colin Thubron
- Restoring the Woven Cord – Michael Mitton
- The History of Love – Nicole Krauss
Book List 2007
- O Jerusalem – Laurie R. King
- The curious incident of the dog in the night-time – Mark Haddon
- Passarola Rising – Azhar Abidi
- A Letter of Mary – Laurie R. King
- Three Men in a Boat (Not to Mention the Dog) – Jerome K. Jerome
- Three Men on the Brummel – Jerome K. Jerome
- A Monsterous Regiment of Women – Laurie R. King
- Waiting – He Jin
- Pride and Prejudice – Jane Austen
- A Circle of Quiet – Madeleine L’Engle
- Christ the Lord: Out of Egypt – Anne Rice
- The Journals – Soren Kierkegaard
- Becoming Human – Jean Vanier
- The Summer of the Great-Grandmother – Madeleine L’Engle
- Obasan – Joy Kogawa
- The Inner Experience – Thomas Merton
- Walking on Water – Madeleine L’Engle
- And it was Good – Madeleine L’Engle
- The Care and Feeding of the Offshore Crew – Lin Pardey
- A Stone for a Pillow – Madeleine L’Engle
- The Calvin and Hobbes 10th Anniversary Collection – Bill Watterson
- Sold into Egypt – Madeleine L’Engle
- Red China Blues – Jan Wong
- River Town: Two Years on the Yangtze – Peter Hessler
- A Series of Unfortunate Events, The Bad Beginning – Lemony Snicket
- A Series of Unfortunate Events, Reptile Room – Lemony Snicket
- Stardust – Neil Gaimon
- Atlas Shrugged – Ayn Rand
- Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows – JK Rawlings
- Peter Duck – Arthur Ransome
- A Circle of Quiet – Madeleine L’Engle
- Eragon – Christopher Pauolini
- Eldest – Christopher Pauolini
- A Generous Orthodoxy – Brian McLaren
- The Blind Assassain – Margaret Atwood
- The Essential Writings of Christian Mysticism
- Cry, The Beloved Country – Alan Paton
- An Embarassment of Mangos – Ann Vanderhoof
- Birds without Wings – Louis de Bernieres
- The Glass Castle – Jeanette Walls
- A Passage to India – CS Forster
- Ishmael – Daniel Quinn
- The Goose Girl – Shannon Hale
- Angels and Demons – Dan Brown
- The Ordering of Love – Madeleine L’Engle
- Understanding China – John Bryan Starr
- The Kite Runner – Khaled Hosseini
- The Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy – Douglas Adams