Life in the slow lane...

Anniversaries are a good time to chill, yes?  So that's what we're doing for a few

days in Portland ME.  We've walked by the beach, prowled around the city at night and in the day, found terrific sea food and had lots of time to move slowly and catch up.

Today we'll take in the art museums and some live music before heading back to real life in the morning. When we get home there are church council meetings and retreats to experience, planning for next year's stewardship drive,bringing our Sunday School experiment to a close for the season and putting together a rock and soul benefit for our mission partners at BEAT (berkshire environmental action team.)  This is the time of year when our church wraps up existing ministries and takes the summer to discern and plan new directions.

But for another 36 hours we're going to be playing in the slow lane... and I am grateful.  One of the things Di and I have loved the most in our interest in wandering... let's see where THIS might take us? Let's see if SHE might be interesting to speak with? I wonder what lies on the OTHER side of that mountain?  So we've wandered in the slow land all over the place:  the desert SW, San Francisco, NYC, London, Scotland, Russia, Sweeden, Finland and the GDR.

For the past 5 years we've made an annual wandering trip to Montreal - and that will take place again at the end of June - life in the slow lane is filled with unexpected treasures.