neworrrleanns

that's my attempt to spell the 'correct' pronunciation of new orleans. all one word, drawled and a very long 'a'. :)

my parents, brother, and i are staying at a dominican retreat center here in new orleans. it's rather nice, i think. seems like the perfect place to take a retreat.

i read rahner on the plane all the way up here. the more i read him, the more i seem to find a kindred mind. this isn't always so with great thinkers and writers - for instance, when i read people like John Paul II (the pope before this one), Frederick Buechner, or even my buddy CS 'Jack' Lewis, i don't feel that connection. i read them and i learn and grow and admire. but their thinking seems to be coming from someone else's head - incredibly insightful and intelligent and well written - but not my thoughts. not the way i would have said it. not the insights that i've had.

however, when i read rahner, i don't feel like i'm reading someone else's thinking. i feel like i'm reading something i've thought, but haven't explored or developed to that extent yet.

but i've got to admit that there is alot of his work i still haven't begun to read. perhaps i'll find another person behind his writings after all. :)

i just heard that i may have to curtail my blogging while i'm in the novitiate. we'll see. if so, i'll still plan to blog when on my breaks.

thanks to those of you who have begun blogs of their own! i'm very glad to see your posts, and esp your lists of fav things! many of them are favs of mine, as well.

here are a few more of my favs:

*question games! i love question games, no matter how they're played. whether it be a series of questions in an email, or questions asked back and forth between 'live' people, with answers expected and unexpected, or the 'official' question game from 'rosencrantz and guildenstern are dead'. (a play by tom stoppard)

*cmonnn

*the 'categories' game

*tennis

*the pool at campus lodge apts