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... I have too much junk in my purse. I think that's why I always come back with a sore neck.
Well, I've decided not to try to go to Bedford after all. I'm sad, but there's too much still to do in Oxford, and we're supposed to get thunderboomers in another hour or two (right now it's alternating between sun and isolated showers, and it's warmed up nicely), so I think I'd better not risk it.
Still trying to figure out what all to get for RL friends and family. There are so many people I want to buy for, and the shops have so many nice things, and I have so little money....
Haven't gotten many pictures aside from a couple of 99 Holywell that I took this afternoon. I was going to try after I went shopping, but I was too beat. Maybe tomorrow. I did, however, find out where the Eagle and Child is, so it's just a matter of going far enough on the right road. :)
This morning's session was SO encouraging! Frederica Mathewes-Green had some interesting insights on the Transfiguration. Alistair McGrath talked a lot about how to apply Lewis in apologetics and made the side point that while we need to not abandon traditional apologetics, we need to do far more in the way of argument by appeal to the imagination--i.e., the response to authors like Philip Pullman should not be treatises but novels. And Peter Kreeft (it's pronounced krayft, btw) talked about things Lewis teaches us about the Good, the True, and the Beautiful, like the fact that we recognize them instinctively. (I could hear some definite echoes of Orthodoxy in some of the quotes he used!)
I guess I'll just see about the concert tonight. It would be nice, but if my neck doesn't shape up, I may need to see if a hard bed and soft pillows will do the trick.
The CD set from this week is $60. I guess I'll go ahead and order it tomorrow.
EDIT: Not going to make the choir concert. :( Apparently I overheated pretty badly. So I need to sleep that off.
The best-laid plans o' mice and men.... Oh, well. At least *God's* plans always work right.
Well, I've decided not to try to go to Bedford after all. I'm sad, but there's too much still to do in Oxford, and we're supposed to get thunderboomers in another hour or two (right now it's alternating between sun and isolated showers, and it's warmed up nicely), so I think I'd better not risk it.
Still trying to figure out what all to get for RL friends and family. There are so many people I want to buy for, and the shops have so many nice things, and I have so little money....
Haven't gotten many pictures aside from a couple of 99 Holywell that I took this afternoon. I was going to try after I went shopping, but I was too beat. Maybe tomorrow. I did, however, find out where the Eagle and Child is, so it's just a matter of going far enough on the right road. :)
This morning's session was SO encouraging! Frederica Mathewes-Green had some interesting insights on the Transfiguration. Alistair McGrath talked a lot about how to apply Lewis in apologetics and made the side point that while we need to not abandon traditional apologetics, we need to do far more in the way of argument by appeal to the imagination--i.e., the response to authors like Philip Pullman should not be treatises but novels. And Peter Kreeft (it's pronounced krayft, btw) talked about things Lewis teaches us about the Good, the True, and the Beautiful, like the fact that we recognize them instinctively. (I could hear some definite echoes of Orthodoxy in some of the quotes he used!)
I guess I'll just see about the concert tonight. It would be nice, but if my neck doesn't shape up, I may need to see if a hard bed and soft pillows will do the trick.
The CD set from this week is $60. I guess I'll go ahead and order it tomorrow.
EDIT: Not going to make the choir concert. :( Apparently I overheated pretty badly. So I need to sleep that off.
The best-laid plans o' mice and men.... Oh, well. At least *God's* plans always work right.
