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We went home foremost for a wedding and for me to teach a one day Elderhostel course. Weddings are always an uplifting affair, of course, and a chance to see extended family. We also had additional time with our nuclear family. Our daughters are doing well, though a bit stressed from both going to school full time and working hard. Ironically, and somewhat happily, our son Noah appears to be the least stressed and doing well. He lives near the Canaan YMCA and has started exercising.
We also got to see our church family again. It was arranged for us to hike into the service during the Children’s Sermon. We shared some of the good ideas we’ve witnessed to date about communities addressing the hunger issue. The choir director Liz Allyn, one of our biggest supporters, lent us her Prius in order to go to the Warwick center where I taught a course based on my book, Systems out of Balance. That went well. Two of the “road scholars” perhaps thought I was a bit harsh on our corporate economy (no one thinks you can be too harsh on representative government these days, even as few realize just how dependent corporations are on government), but a few people thanked me for making them think about our social systems in new ways.
Despite all this good news, home is not really home right now. Our “normal” life right now is to hike, and being home was more of a vacation than a trip home. It was almost a bit surreal, like we were taking a break from hiking to watch a long reality show.
We don’t go home again now until we hike down from Canaan Mountain into town on May 24, 2012. We hope to see a few of you then. For now, it’s on to the plains!
