Packed (almost) and headed to Houghton

Currently I'm packing for the last time to head off to school. My room is officially a disaster zones as I frantically gather all I need for my senior year at Houghton (you'd think after 3 years I'd have this down). I can't believe my college career will be over soon. And it's hard to imagine that in a year's time I will have to begin life and bills and loans payments and career search. But for now, I'm looking forward to a wonderful senior year full of memories and late-night papers and coffees and homecoming and concerts and New York foliage and lake-effect snow. Tomorrow I will be off- with "my" little white car named Alfred packed til he can hold no more. One more year here I come!

P.S. The above picture is not really our car. Alfred doesn't look quite that nice, even though I did wash him.

Under African Skies

“I hope your rambles have been sweet and your reveries spacious."
-Emily Dickinson

Under a spacious African sky I understood the feeling when every ounce of your being, every nerve is alert to fully grasping a moment in time- a place, an image, a breeze. As I peered across grassy plains and watched the huge shapes of elephants lumbering past, I paused and breathed in the scent of coming rainclouds. Something about Africa and its alarming enveloping beauty caused me to learn how to savor.

As I begin this journal, I hope to catalog my experiences and reveries as I ramble through adventures from the Green Mountains of Vermont to the rolling hills of western New York to wherever in the world life takes me next. I also hope to share my spiritual journey as I seek my place in God's mission. So, here's to savoring and learning and sharing. Run the earth and watch the sky -Chris Rice.

Peace of Christ,

Careth Lee Davis