....waiting for the football game to begin. It is almost like the Super Bowl for me tonight and I only hope the Packers show up to play. Fortunately the weather is cooler is here (or shall I say up there in Atlanta?) so the team will feel somewhat comfortable playing in the dome. Go Pack Go!
This afternoon was spent at home, watching a movie, "Kramer vs. Kramer" which was groundbreaking for its time in regard to child custody, and at this moment, the TV showing of "Freedom Writers", edited for time and content, I imagine, to squeeze in the commercials. I am reading "The Freedom Writers Diary", making slow progress getting through it. How much better to have seen the movie first (many many times!!!) as I wade my way. I can put some names to the numbers (the students are given numbers in the book, to protect their identity) and I can figure out who is who simply from reading their stories. Unlike my 'reading friends', I am not one to tear through a book, the not being able to put it down-type. Perhaps it is my choice of material, but I doubt that since Linda and I have occasion to be reading the same book at times. In fact, the book Mary Lew gave me on Tuesday night is one Linda bought just before Christmas. She proposes reading it together from far apart but I think that will not work as she reads more quickly than do I.
This portion of the movie is so incredible---after these misfit kids visited a Holocaust Museum, they went to dinner at the Marriott, where they dined with surviving victims from the camps. It changed their lives, and mine! I had read "The Diary of Anne Frank" a long, long time ago but should again, especially since this movie came out. That is what encouraged the students to keep their own diaries and change their outcomes in the world. Wonder how many have stayed 'above the fray' as it were....
This a.m. I met my friend, Terri T., at Grumpy's. Her dad and family used to congregate there several times a month and I would see them on occasion. It is now our place to meet for breakfast--ours, and about a hundred other people with the same idea. We sat and talked for almost two hours, then realized that people were lined out the door, waiting for our little 2 top table. We surrendered our seats to others but could have talked much longer. I could not promise to see her tomorrow as there was a change in the plans regarding the presentation after church tomorrow. I may go to early service at Victory and then stop by GS to pick up the flowers from the altar---say 'hi' to those I had not seen since services on the 12th of December. That was the first Advent Song Service, when we had the break-out of "In Christ Alone" after the service.
Oh, what to do, what to do....????
Go Pack Go!
