Daniel's lovely June 17th post says it all about what's happening with us these days. We are just unbelievably tired. Most of my furlough time is spent on the sofa, enjoying the light from the French doors behind me, and maybe watching Sunrise Earth in HD on TV. Now that my red blood counts are in low normal range, I hope to be getting more energy. I suspect that it is the suspense of not knowing what's going on inside my bone marrow that contributes to this tiredness, both mine and Daniel's. 
On each furlough we do something with friends or outside. Last Tuesday at our EDS neighborhood picnic, I tried to find a "Hot Spot" that would give me enough bandwidth to have a video conference with Zachary. There are a half dozen of us who have wireless networks around that yard. I managed a short video contact before giving up. Lest you think from his last message that Daniel has lost his inclination for kidding, please regard this picture of us. I'm working diligently to get Skype connected and Daniel... well, Daniel is being Daniel.
BK Hipsher took these pictures of us. Here I am trying to get my Zac in video communication with the EDS kids. We like this picture with the light alot; could that be an angel amongst us? I took this picture of BK being very much BK in one of her rare moments of relaxing.
Daniel says that I am managing the rehab of a little rent house my Mom left me in Baytown. My cousin, Claudia, is the one who is managing the process of bringing back a house that has really declined to be a wreck. I won't go into details of all that work! Because of all the construction and rehab going on in the Houston/New Orleans area, no sheet rockers were available. Daniel asked our friend Joe to go to Texas and do the rocking. Here he is talking with Joe from the restaurant where we went yesterday to get a little Boston atmosphere. I was inspecting the construction detail of the restaurant, which was once John Hancock's Counting House, while Daniel was talking with Joe about the detail saving the little Baytown house.
Furloughs are fun, and now I'm off for my fifth one.
Dear Bonnie and Daniel - I had my own little epiphany yesterday at All Saints'. I was there for the interview of a potential assistant rector and was early, so I went out into the Meditation Garden planning to pray for myself and to get a little bit of coherence and mindfulness. It was 6 in the evening, a very warm day full of that flat pale intense Palo Alto light.
The place said to me Bonnie Bonnie Bonnie. The 2 of you I think filled the space. I walked through while the air whooshed into my lungs.
The interview then went so very well. Thank you so much for being there with me, with us!
Jeff
Posted by: Jeff | June 21, 2006 at 08:19 AM