“The name´s Bad Kitty. But you can call me Trouble”. Announced Danny. He´s more a ball of chaos than real trouble. But I´d love to know which TV show he got that line from.
Sunday night the temperature dropped and Monday morning dawned a fresh cool 24 degrees or so, causing people to go to work wearing long sleeves. From which we can deduce something about the sweaty state of the weekend. Two days later we´re back up to silly degrees centigrade until next time it rains.
Definition of multi-tasking: avoiding doing two or more things at once. It´s the last week of the school year. We are all off the scale of tired, Joni voiced a communal moan on Tuesday afternoon; – “Why is this week taking so looooong?” It´s hot (did I already mention that?), and my tasks for today include to update the blog in English and write a sermon in Spanish. So what better plan than to attempt the two simultaneously? Chance that either will make any progress any time soon?
Latest in the series of ridiculous meetings regarding Danny´s education yesterday. I´m not sure if I dare hope it might be the last for the year. The rhetoric was so impressively way out that I was left wondering if the authorities even believed themselves. In a different environment distinguishing ethical failure from sheer incompetence might make an interesting discussion. Meanwhile a kid´s education is at stake. He himself is keen to change schools, which I think we can and should facilitate, and doesn´t have too many other opinions beyond hoping that I might buy him a horse for Christmas, which is about the only thing that we can definitely say isn´t going to happen. I´m holding on to the thought that most people become relatively unscathed adults despite everything that happens in the middle.
The extended family chug through their ups and downs and ensure we´re never bored. In the last few weeks we´ve been acquiring an extended-extended family, friends of our two girls, who hang out in front of our house of an evening. There´s an unmet need for some sort of supported living project for teenage survivors of dysfunctional upbringing. Sadly, or maybe fortunately, we lack every kind of resource to move on that. So they meet on our front steps and share snacks and juice as they work through their challenges, joys, sorrows, and we try and encourage them to pick up the cigarette butts when they leave.
Seek the welfare of the city
where I have sent you
into exile,
and pray to the Lord
on its behalf,
for in its welfare,
you will find your welfare.
Jeremiah 29:7
Hey if I hit publish now I will have achieved one whole task on the same day that I started it. It´s OK, I´m totally aware that it´s half a page of jumbled ramblings, but we can celebrate small steps.