Written for the minute for mission at Trinity Arlington Church The sun sets over Greenville, SC, during an evening walk. One of the core tenants of the YAV program is Intentional Christian Community. This has been hard work this year, even before the pandemic. The YAV house in D.C. is a three bedroom townhouse containing [...]
there will be life after this.
Last night, Liam and I sat in his room and did compline (the Episcopalian version of vespers). We prayed for the aching world. We haven't been doing this every night, but last night the unfairness and cruelty of the pandemic felt like it was crashing down on us. Maybe it was too many visits to [...]
One month gone
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k1S9A-hN5vk I've been back in Greenville, S.C. for about a month now. I feel very blessed to be able to go for runs outside with plenty of space, to have my own room and table to work from home, and working internet and a computer through which I can see the faces of family, friends, [...]
One Second A Day: March
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4f02IDAwsD4&feature=youtu.be March was absolutely not what any of us expected it to be. During the beginning of the month, I was able to spend time with Mom and James who came to visit. But by the middle of the month, the YAV house was buying cans of nonperishables, committing to social distancing, and working from [...]
The Year in Photos (as of February)
One Second a Day: February
https://youtu.be/Eb45SEPSd_g As February comes to an end, I am feeling settled in place in D.C. and grateful that I still have five months left to be with my housemates. I am excited for March, which will be filled to the brim with visits from loved ones.
Seeing in the Dark
Written for Luther Place's Lent DevotionalReadings: Psalm 146; Matthew 9:27-34; Isaiah 60:17-22 I was sitting on the bus with my headphones in, listening to a politics podcast and feeling worried. As I watched H street pass by through the window, I felt a tap on my forearm. A small, older woman sitting next to me [...]
Mapping My D.C.
Sitting at sunlit tables on the fourth floor of Luther Place, Sara led the YAVs (minus Keyah, who was at a grad school interview) in creating our own maps of D.C. For half an hour, we sat and mapped out the places we most frequently occupy in the city. It was a great way to [...]
Uffie
My great-great Aunt's house is covered wall-to-wall in things she has brought back from seventy-something years of travel: zebra and giraffe masks in the stairwell leading to the basement, green and blue china on glass shelves, a brass hookah pipe, Russian nesting dolls. She was born in 1921, went to college, never got married, worked, [...]
One Second a Day: January
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2SWKzF2h6ms&feature=youtu.be Jan 1-5: Liam visited D.C. and we met up with friends, made pasta, went to Smithsonian museums, and treated ourselves to some sushi!Jan 6: back to workJan 7-8: first real D.C. snow was magical but didn't last long...Jan 9: Ailih and I happily on our way to a speak to the YAV board 🙂 [...]
