So since then, I'm heading quickly toward the middle of my 2nd semester, the presidential candidates have chosen their running mates, and we are just over a month away from the next election! I have replaced the tires on my car & spent too much money at the vet nursing my sick Maggie back to health. Thankfully she is fully recovered, although Oreo is still pretty bitter about not being an only cat. :)
Some of my favorite moments recently:
-McCain's congrats ad to Obama the night of Obama's acceptance speech at the DNC...for the cynics out there, yes it was probably politically expedient but isn't the spirit of it the kind of behavior we've been longing for in "public servants", ala Aaron Sorkin?? (never mind the quick return to "straight-speaking" rhetoric :)
- an excited email from my friend Myra, who was actually at Obama's speech & whose parents were at the heart of the civil rights movement in South Bend - MLK stayed in her house when she was 12! If I can open the file, I want to post some of her thoughts on watching the 1st African American in our history accept a major party nomination for president. We forget so quickly how far we have come and are blind to how far we have to go.
- a man in my church, after several months of waiting, received a heart transplant last week. He is such a warm, joyful, welcoming person, it was 3 mths before I knew he was ill & dying. He has 2 children in college, and to watch him take communion w/ his wife was to resolve to wait as long as it takes for the one God has chosen for me.
- an entire afternoon spent at the Indianapolis Museum of Art! (I need more - I only got thru' the 1st floor!)
- Marshall's 12th birthday in Ft. Wayne w/ my dad's side of the family - we were just missing my dad :(
- positive feedback on my work from my classmates, even an offer to buy one of my assignments! (haven't got it back w/ a grade tho'... and what is a fair price for a classroom drawing???)
- being found by 2 of my best friends from junior high on Facebook, and one of my best friends from college - Amanda wrote about my finally getting to art school, "I'm sure God has very special plans...for you. Why else would He be so patient with you?" What a timely reminder that I have received more than I deserve, and I need to work a whole lot harder at not trying His patience!
