Within the walls, a wide world...

At church today, the conversations included...

a friend telling me during coffee hour that she wants Stephen Paulus's The Road Home played at her memorial service

another friend telling me during morning songs that she wants Jason Shelton's Morning Has Come played at her memorial service

plans for a veteran's birthday gathering

The topics also included:

the college selection, application, and financing process. The child in question is planning to major in marine biology.

grant applications (i.e., chatting with the head of a lab)

completing albums (the chief's daughter is a musician)

Wendell Berry. My hiking partner and her husband went to hear him at a fundraiser last weekend.

blue-eyed grass

vegan food

a riff on Richard III in a recent cartoon

In other news, I'm about to head to session 5 of my yoga studio's thirty-day challenge. (I had an earlier class on my calendar -- and slept right through my alarm. Whoops.) And, I'm seeing zinnia seedlings in the pots on my deck. Wheeee!