No earthquake yet, but some peace on the homefront. Some answers and some clarification. Nothing is as good as it seems; neither is it as bad as you fear.

It is time to find early morning prayer again.

I think I have a source.

I paid $10 for 4.5 gallons of gas tonight (over $2.13 a gallon!). Not cool. I was too cheap to buy much. I am trying to hold out til the prices drop after Labor Day.

Meanwhile it is 11 p.m. and I just got home and ate dinner. I have to be at work at 7:45 (GAG!) to learn more about things I learned in the first four years of teaching. Then I am gone ALL weekend, pretty much, at a conference. It is in Pasadena, but consumes all my time from tomorrow night til Saturday night.

I hope this is the beginning of new things. I am not a lone missionary to a single place but a nomad, still, in the City of Angels.