Maybe a part of this rest thing is not having a lot to say churning around. Still thinking though - always. I wanted to point to a couple of places you might want to check out...
Lots of good thoughts and ruminations going on over at this place - stay tuned there.
And in the thoughts category...
I've been thinking of getting back in touch and involved with my local chapter of Trout Unlimited. I was quite involved several years ago, did a couple of stints on the local board, etc. The Bluegrass Chapter now meets close to where I live so it's even easier.
In a little more than a month it'll be a year since I was in Ireland. That experience is still with me strongly. Having been there only once I often find myself missing it. That may sound a little odd, but nonetheless, there it is. I had a life-long emotional pre-connection with the place and it's culture, so I'm sure that factors in hugely. It is a part of me now in a way that it wasn't before. And of course my view of it now is forever changed. It's less idealistic, less romantic, a bit more real. One leftover is listening to the Gerry Ryan show, on RTE2 fm there. They put together a podcast called the Weekly Ryan which I recommend if you want to listen in on some "real Ireland" and have some good craic. ha!
"Then, if we cannot as yet think alike in all things, at least we may love alike. Herein we cannot possibly do amiss." John Wesley
"Keep your eyes on the crucifix, for Jesus without the cross
is a man without a mission, and the cross without Jesus
is a burden without a reliever." Fulton J. Sheen
"...I am deeply convinced that the Christian leader of the future is called to be
completely irrelevant and to stand in this world with nothing to offer but his or her own vulnerable self." Henri Nouwen
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