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The "concert"

This evening Friend and I went to the park for a pb & fluff picnic. As we unpacked our supper a guy showed up with a guitar - he had a cigarette hanging out of his mouth, scraggly hair and a scruffy appearance. We were curious to know what kind of a "concert" we were about to hear. He started strumming, but we didn't pay too much attention to him, until we happened to catch the words that he was singing. "I'll follow you to the homes of the broken, I'll follow you into the world. Meet the needs for the poor and the needy God..." Wow - certainly not what I was expecting, but why not? I guess I didn't expect it because he didn't fit my picture of what a Christ follower looks like. I wonder what the fishermen looked like when they dropped their nets to follow? Probably more like the singer than like me. I've got to lose some of my preconcieved ideas before I can really follow Him wherever he leads me.

What a ride

     For the last 3 years I've felt like I was on the lift hill of a roller coaster - slowly click, click, clicking my way up. Suddenly things seem to have switched - and I feel like i am going down the drop - and it is exciting and terrifying, all at the same time. I now have 68% of what I need and I am hoping to be able to move by the end of the summer. Thank you to all of you who are a part - the chart is getting greener.

Vacation in MAINE!

"I must go down to the seas again, to the lonely sea and the sky,
And all I ask is a tall ship and a star to steer her by,
And the wheel's kick and the wind's song and the white sail's shaking,
And a grey mist on the sea's face and a grey dawn breaking."

334. Moxie T-shirts

336. Digging for little specks of sea glass

337. Building rock towers 

 339. Icecream from a new little spot on Bailey Island

 340. Swinging from the "polly ball"

 342. Scaring the sea gulls with an acorn wistle

347. Silly pictures in the dark

 351. Clouds and fog but no rain

"I must go down to the seas again, for the call of the running tide
Is a wild call and a clear call that may not be denied;
And all I ask is a windy day with the white clouds flying,
And the flung spray and the blown spume, and the sea-gulls crying."

 352. Sunshine breaking through the fog

 354. Dustin

 356. Getting to go out in Provider

357. Getting to band the lobster

 358. Learning from the lobsterman

 360. Two keepers - Clarence (with the orange) and Merph

362. Getting to drive Provider 

364. Getting to pick up the traps (they are so heavy) 

377. A grey mist on the sea's face

390. Getting to go on vacation with Friend

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