1. Meowmix - April 12th, 2007

   A real one? 

2. ZZPuck - April 12th, 2007

   The kind where God shows you he doesn’t need technology to help you relax and have a good time???

   Just think in a few short days you will be in sunny Malibu and overwhelmed with technocrats and technology and an occasional good lecture.

   By the way, I’ve been reading Henri Nouwen’s Reaching Out and he has some good thoughts on what he calls “receptive solitude.” Might apply to some of our “vacations.”

   Here’s a taste: “By attentive living we can learn the difference between being present in loneliness and being present in solitude. When you are alone in an office, a house or an empty waiting room, you can suffer from restless loneliness but also enjoy quiet solitude. When you are teaching in a classroom, listening to a lecture, watching a movie or chatting at a “happy hour,” you can have the unhappy feeling of loneliness but also the deep contentment of someone who speaks, listens and watches from the tranquil center of his solitude. It is not too difficult to distinguish between the restless and the restful, between the driven and the free, between the lonely and the solitary in our surroundings. When we live with a solitude of heart, we can listen with attention to the words and the worlds of others, but when we are driven by loneliness, we tend to select just those remarks and events that bring immediate satisfaction to our own craving needs.”

   Peace.

3. wfma - April 12th, 2007

   Sounds like a working vacation to me.  Get out there an pan ya some gold to buy those backwoods California hillbillys some of that new fangled communycashuns.

4. thurman8er - April 12th, 2007

   Have you seen any Angels yet?  Guerrero?  Lackey?  Gabriel?

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