Though I'm busy all the time, spring and summer are my busiest seasons at work.  Part of this season includes CCU's commencement exercises.  This year's ceremonies were in Loveland, Colorado, which is not far from Johnstown, Colorado, which houses the state's only Buc-ee's.

The Monday after commencement, I took the day off and my friend Jennifer and I went to the Denver Botanic Gardens.  I hadn't been there since the "thing," and I'd missed it dreadfully.  The sunshine, fresh air, and all the gorgeous flora were the respite I needed from all the previous weeks' busyness. I'd go back more often on my own, but the parking situation isn't the best in the world and the bus drop off is more than half a mile from the venue.  How does the Botanic Gardens not have its own bus stop? 

But literary people are always looking for leisure and silence in which to read and do so with their whole attention. When they are denied such attentive and undisturbed reading even for a few days they feel impoverished. - C. S. Lewis, An Experiment in Criticism, p. 2.

Fellowship, especially in its Greek translation, has a powerful meaning.  It speaks of an intimate sharing of ourselves with one another and with God at all levels of our lives, ranging from the spiritual to the material. - Trevor Hudson, Pauses for Pentecost, "Fellowship" section.

I'd rather be jolly Saint Francis hymning his canticle to the sun than a dour old sobersides Quaker whose diet would appear to be spiritual persimmons. - Thomas R. Kelly, qtd. by Richard Foster in Learning Humility.

I'm thinking about...

A friend helped me better understand poetry.  Maybe I can find someone to help me learn about comic books and enjoy a little something that's a good reminder of my dad.