(photo P Volker)
I just happened to have heard that Cris CSABC broke free of her apartment and did a seven kilometer hike. She has been hardly outside for a year. Now look at her gallivanting around the countryside.
My Rebecca has a big breakout this morning also. She is a part of Catherine’s writing group and they are having their first in person meeting in a year. Things starting to open up here and there. People sticking their heads out of the bunker and looking around like Spring flowers.
I see Pilgrim Farmer John and Farmer Cathy escaped Iowa and made it down to Tulsa to see Ken and Tori. Saw a pic with Roni and her sister with them there. The Tulsa Thawout!
And tomorrow or the next day is the Vernal Equinox! The Spring equal day and night or the first day of the Spring season for us here. Oh boy!
And then Easter coming, April 4th.
thawout loves, Felipé.
I managed a 10km hike today down to Teesmouth Island a small tidal island which for some reason has a lot of black ants living on it.i saw about 15 seals too.the damage that the Mycosis Fungoides had done to my feet had slowed me down a lot and I use to walk huge distances however on a positive note the radiation treatments just done on my hands and feet have improved them a lot but on a negative note I can already see the MF reinfiltrating the skin after just a few weeks and it sort of looks like it did when I first noticed it on my hands(took a lot longer to attack my feet)in 2006 when I was sat on a rock near the town of Herczi Novi in Montenegro.i though it was scabies but back in Oxford my doctor told me it was ezecma but with hindsight it was stage 1a Mycosis Fungoides!my consultant tells me that it can reinfiltrate the skin in a matter of months.
Oh Kevan, your journey sounds so difficult sometimes. Please know that we are with you in thoughts and prayers. I’m reminded of what St Hildegard said, “God doesn’t live in healthy bodies.” Hang tough buddy, Felipé.
Congratulations Cris on finding your way into the outside world.
I cannot imagine being locked up for so long.
I hope this is one of many hikes to come.
Solvitur Ambulando
Hiking Luvs.
I don’t know what bodies God lives in but I’d guess all of them? there’s a branch of theology called theodicy where theologians debate how God can be totally good yet allow evil in the world.generally the Christian response to the problem is free will which,if I recall,dates back to St Augustine of Hippo and has coloured such arguments ever since.Prior to becoming a Christian St Augustine was no stranger to the problem of evil as he’d been a Manichean prior to his conversation and thus had been a member of a strange dualistic quasi Gnostic faith.of course he was also heavily influenced by Plato and Plotinus who,I think, would have seen God in everything; the Good, the Bad and the Ugly and it was based on perspective and proximity rather than separate things.
Kevan ~ What I was getting at is the heathy people generally take a lot of stuff for granted. When you wrestle with a malady there is occasion to explore topics that didn’t seem important before. Felipé.
True!