the interim

You are in this time of the interim

Where everything seems withheld.

The path you took to get here has washed out;

The way forward is still concealed from you...

What is being transfigured here is your mind,

And it is difficult and slow to become new.

The more faithfully you can endure here,

The more refined your heart will become

For your arrival in the new dawn.

-John O'Donohue

an afternoon at Fellows Riverside Gardens

 A couple weeks ago, my roommate and I spent an afternoon at Fellows Riverside Gardens (Mill Creek Park). We dodged rain, but managed to spend a couple hours wandering around. It was a nice place to spend a couple of quiet hours.

Want to check out the City of Youngstown?

Fellows is one of my favorite places to spend an afternoon.

This was my favorite flower.

my week in pictures

A fun evening spent with friends eating outstanding food and trying our hands at Batik decorated Easter eggs.

Coffee and lounging around on Friday morning while watching some favorite tv shows because it means that I have a day off for Easter.

These flowers from our back yard because they survived the cold nighttime temperatures this week.

This is why I love my job.

Leftover salad from our night decorating eggs because I'm rarely a salad fan, but this was delicious.

peace.

Sunrise, Clare's Well, Annandale, MN - 6/29/2011

Peace is not the product of terror or fear.
Peace is not the silence of cemeteries.
Peace is not the silent result of violent repression.
Peace is the generous, tranquil contribution of all to the good of all.
Peace is dynamism.
Peace is generosity. It is right and it is duty.
-Archbishop Oscar Romero, 15 August 1917 – 24 March 1980

sky

 

[both taken on 2/22/12, ©eam]

moving towards change

“Growth means change 

and 

change involves risk; 

stepping from the known to the unknown.”

-George Shinn

Music for a snowy Friday

Winter has taken its time getting to NE Ohio/Western PA and I'm completely ok with that. Temps dropped over night and the rain turned to ice and snow. I'm sitting in my bedroom looking at the snow blowing horizontal and contemplating a walk up to the main building in a little while.

A few weeks ago was the Kennedy Center Honors (2011). This was a huge deal in my family because Neil Diamond was honored and, in our house, Neil Diamond is on the same playing field as God. His music was the first I remember listening to as a kid. I actually don't remember being exposed to that many other artists. For me, though, I was more excited about Yo-Yo Ma and Meryl Streep. It was like a melding of my favorite artists in one television show. During the concert, James Taylor (and others) took the stage to sing "Here Comes the Sun." I cried watching it that night. I think it's amazing and I'm glad that someone finally put it up on youtube.