a few thoughts

Miscellaneous thoughts...

We saw our first palm trees in Albany, in a park with a fountain and painted turtles. (Not the species... just statues of turtles, painted.) A lovely place where we ate our lunch. Gazing at the water, I commented to Paul that the best things in life are either free or horribly expensive: for the sound and sight of falling water, just wait till you happen to run across a park like this, or a waterfall, and it's free... or if you want to own it, build a fountain on the grounds of your mansion. As Mastercard says, priceless. The best things in life are free, until you try to control them.

We're only about a week from the Florida state line, now. I've also started to see Spanish moss, and today what may have been a cypress swamp. (Mostly dried up. It is not a good year down here...)

Oh, I forgot to tell y'all about Koinonia, didn't I? The summary is simple: the place is lovely, lots of pecan trees, we worked in the bakery packing chocolate and pecans, both to earn our keep and because we liked it, and we stayed for a week. I used the semi-public computer almost every night, working on my novel.

Another little tidbit: only three chapters left to revise, then tweak some passages here and there and write an epilogue and I'm done! Soon. Very soon.

And finally, a lovely line from a poem someone read for devotions at Koinonia... the poet describes hatred as a flaring fire, and love as the small, constant flame of a candle, and ends the poem with these lines:

Know this: though love is weak and hate is strong,
Yet hate is short, and love is very long.