1. As I wrapped up my time reading Bleak House today, a contagion, a virus was beginning to spread among characters, including Esther. I am eager to get back to reading today and see what turns out to be the impact of this virus.
2. At 2:00, it was Zoom time for Bill, Diane, Val, and me. We had a few people unable to make it today and we missed our absent friends. We talked for about two and half hours about all sorts of things: British television and movies, articles we've read in the past few weeks, our experiences with spirituality, our experiences with different Christian churches, the power of mythology, all sorts of great topics. Diane went to PLU and the rest of us went to Whitworth and now, these roughly four decades since college, we continue to love talking about subjects that grew out of our Christian liberal arts education and recalling those professors and teachers, then and now, who have influenced us and continue to.
It is fun and gratifying to talk together for many reasons. I'm especially happy that we all took our college education so seriously, that we were all eager learners in college, and that we continue to be curious, seek out teachers, and can talk with each other so eloquently about what's on our minds and what gives us hope.
3. Our stimulating Zoom call ended and when I emerged from the Vizio room, I discovered Christy and Riley were on our deck with Debbie. I joined them, poured myself some George Dickel Rye Whiskey, and, among other things, got some Kellogg Junior High School/Kellogg High School band history straightened out with Christy.
Once our conversation on the deck ended, Debbie made one of the best Caesar salads I've ever had, thanks to the dressing she made and the shrimp she added to the salad.
I hope she'll make this salad often, especially when the hot weather arrives. It was delicious and refreshing.
Stu wrote a limerick to commemorate Memorial Day:
Serving one’s Country’s a Call!
Anyone who has done it stand tall.
Without you we’d be lost,
Freedom comes with a cost.
So we honor the brave who did fall!
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