It has been a month since my last post? Wow.
And my last post was about the encounter with the evangelical woman in St Louis? And I haven’t posted anything since? Wow.
It has been a busy month, since that trip I have been to Fort Wayne, Indiana, and just last week Alexis and I were in Austin, Texas.
I had several good conversations with many interesting people whom I met on these trips. I got to be goofy and silly and just plain weird at times (while teaching, or at the airport, or in a restaurant), and I got to be random every now and then. The highlight was driving back to Austin on Saturday night, after we had spent the day in Houston with our friends the Geloks, Dan and Ning. When we left Houston it was already close to sunset, but we drove down to Galveston so that Alexis could jump into the ocean (it was WILD, the waves were huge, generated by some off-shore storm), and then we got caught in the wildest lightning and thunder storm that I have ever seen, much less driven through. I felt truly reckless to be driving in the middle of a storm that we really had NO control over.
But I am also weary, and melancholy. There is some lingering depression hovering in me - I feel tired, sad, unhappy, bored, listless.
Sometimes just breathing is a drag.