spring visit to the shire.

...go, said the bird, for the leaves were full of children,

hidden excitedly, containing laughter.

go, go, go, said the bird: human kind

cannot bear very much reality.

time past and time future

what might have been and what has been

point to one end, which is always present.

-t.s. eliot.

peter pan soup.

i'm sitting in the cozy pub downstairs from my flat right now. it's called the bon accord which translated means good fellowship...i know. it couldn't be more charming. but i'm here to work on my papers and soon as i walked in, i realized that there's a semi-cup game between the celtics (local glasgow football team) and aberdeen. this is serious business. i was a little worried that it'd be too loud to work on my paper but literally you can hear my computer keys typing in here...i'm realizing that getting rowdy and yelling at the screen is something that us amateurs in america do. in scotland, among the older scots, you can hear a pin drop when they watch football...because they mean business.

in other scottish adventure news...i asked the lovely lady at the bar what the soup of the day is and i thought she said "peter pan soup." i then proceeded to ask her if the peter pan soup is vegetarian and she responded...."no. PEA & HAM soup."

oh.

this is a dear man we came across in our adventures in stirling. dapper, no?

for the non-facebookers...i.e. adam. ;)

adam. you're pretty much the only person i know who follows this and is not on facebook. so i'm putting these up here for you! i took a little adventure into perthshire which is considered the gateway to the highlands. i got to stay with a really lovely scottish friend named anne. it was a dream. here's a look...

with all your ramblings about your mexican dog, i thought it necessary to include this one as well...

miss you, friend. hope you're staying radical and changing the world :)

i live with 7 girls...

so this never happens. but i am officially

HOME ALONE.

and i shouldn't feel so silly about it.

but. i. do.

which makes me realize...scotland will be more challenging than i initially thought.

this solitude i dreamt of...will be deeper and more tangible than

any i've ever. ever. ever. known.

so i'll need so much more of Him.

to fill this void.

in me.