I have a break between patients so will take a moment to type some of the stuff going through my head lately...
Reading Wendell Berry's The Unsettling of America, a 1970's treatise on the state of agriculture and the state of America at that time. It reads as a prophetic look at today's struggles. We seem to still be enamored with machines and what human ingenuity can come up with, all the time ignoring the fact that we have shown ourselves woefully inept as a race to manage our own inventions and sources of energy. The oil crisis, big business, the demise of the family farm, etc. all get attention in this book.
We are in the process of buying a house in Janette's hometown. There are pluses and minuses but overall we are looking forward to having a place that our kids can call "home" and start to put down roots. It has been very easy living with Grandma and Grandpa Thompson but the kids will appreciate visiting them more if they don't live there all the time. We are also glad to be moving into a neighborhood where the kids can play in the local park, we can walk to the library or church and Janette can watch the girls walk across the backyard to school every morning.
Work has been very busy so far. A lot of patients but decent hours. I'm remembering a lot of things that had gotten really fuzzy with years of inactivity.
Last weekend, we traveled to Indianapolis to attend a wedding reception and speak in a couple of our supporting churches. Indy has such a nice downtown area- the new library is amazing- and we remembered why we liked our time there so much. It was good to see old friends and share a little of what took place in Mexico City the last four years. Some of Hurricane Ike's aftermath caught us on the way home which made for some tense driving but we made it safe and sound and were glad to collapse into our own beds.
Thinking about how we might be able to get some of our stuff out of Mexico City to our house in Spring Arbor. We may have to fly down, drive the stuff up to the border and store it in Texas for a few weeks until we can drive it up to Michigan. The whole border crossing with a van load of stuff is a big unknown.
More to come later...