Just to Say Hi

I was checking the pages on my bookmarks tab when I realized it had been almost a month since I posted an updated. In an effort to not offend the sea of readers hitting my page every day desperately or hopefully awaiting the next bit of news, I’ll offer the following minutiae. It’s good to go back to the blog’s roots sometimes, otherwise I’d be forced to change that banner catch-line.

Though it’s 3 days early, I’m welcoming emissaries and ambassadors autumn’s already sent our way. Yes, in a few weeks I’m sure you’ll get yet another post about what I love about Fall, until then simply content yourselves with knowing that this year we tried to embrace summer as best we could. No sense in regretting the present season for loyalty to an absent fall.

Things are good at the Colburn house and this summer saw quite a bit of activity. Amon got some serious progress made on her scrap books, which you probably got a chance to see in draft form if you were one of the folks who lived along the route of our summer odyssey. I got new software for our Mac that makes processing/editing photos easier; many thanks to our friend Tom with the hook up at Adobe. We had friends over for meals, got to be guests at friends tables, read some good books, and in general got a lot done. Of course there’s never enough time and Amon continues to have so many ideas of fun and productive things to do, that we should never have an excuse to be bored.

I attended back to school night with Amon yesterday, and once again was confronted with how unfair it is for teachers to get to work by 6:30am, work all day have an hour break, and have to be back at school to start another “day” of open-house-classes at 7:30pm. But they do it, and a few parents come to meet their child’s teacher, see the amazing class room they’ve set up and appreciate things in general. A few more parents come, show up late for the period, skip out early, and in general feel that they don’t have the time to be bothered listening to the teacher’s talk about what their child is going to learn in the class; they need to see all the teachers before the first period is over so they can leave early. I wonder where their kids learn their bad habits. Must be TV.

Well, I’ll leave my ranting to the professionals as there will be enough negativity on the TV, radio, and printed page between now and November to world of blogs into the ground.

I’ll leave you with this thought…pick the more challenging of the two:
“If instead of a gem, or even a flower, we should cast the gift of a loving thought into the heart of a friend, that would be giving as the angels give.” - George MacDonald
“I do not think that the road to contentment lies in despising what we have not got. Let us acknowledge all good, all delight that the world holds, and be content without it.” - George MacDonald