Hey O’ahu Friends! Our house is having a Yard Sale this weekend Fri 5-7pm (friends get first pick!) and Sat 8am - 1pm for the public. If you or someone you know needs any household items for bedroom, living room, bathroom, kitchen, etc, send them our way! While most of our furniture is spoken for, we have lots of storage bins and baskets, kitchen cooking supplies, picture frames, lamps, shelves, beach supplies, and even Christmas decor! I also have some special sets of things pictured here... Italian glass kitchen storage jars, Hana Hou magazines from the past 5 years, a hotel of kombucha scobies (get your own starter kit!), a bicycle, and a industrial-grade blendtec blender. Let me know if you’re interested in something!
Last week I dropped in on my future school in Scotland - University of St. Andrews. I will begin my year-long program this September studying for the MLitt in Global Social and Political Thought (basically an interdisciplinary approach to international politics). Besides it being the most romantic place to spend a year holed up in ancient stone buildings buried under a pile of books studying geopolitics, here’s a few other lovely things I learned in my 24hr visit...
1. This guy garnered papal permission to start the 3rd school in the UK (since Cambridge and Oxford we’re inundated with priests in training) establishing the Uni of St. Andrews in 1413. 🤙🏼
2. These Cathedral ruins supposedly housed the remains of the apostle Andrew 🤷🏼♀️, thus being a destination of Medieval pilgrimages and hence the town’s name. Also, the ruins are evidence of the galvanizing affect of John Knox sermons (torn down by fundamentalist Protestants).
3. If I must live in a cold country, at least I can live by the sea. 🏄🏼♀️
4. St. Salvator’s chapel
5. Nice to see familiar faces among other Redding, CA / Simpson University transplants: @calfroehlich PhD student and Dr Lyons teaching OT Theology (looking very professorly in that tweed). They welcomed me with warm drinks and cheerful conversations. ☕️
6. St. Mary’s school of Theology where I have many friends.
7. Spring time whimsy 🦋
8. St. Andrews is the “birthplace” of famous Theologians and golf.🏌🏼♀️
9. Daffodils greet me with a wink of hope.
10. Preparing to enter a new season (Latin: In the beginning was the Word)
