1.) blanching and freezing vegetables for winter is less scary than anticipated.
2.) it is good for the soul to occasionally buy a pretty dress, go back to where you used to live, eat lots of good food, dance with your friends, watch them get married and remember what it meant to be in college.
3.) 3 intensive days of learning how to be a doula are good, good stuff. conversations with women who also want to become doulas are encouraging and provide lots of good things to ponder.
4.) making meals with church folk will always be one of my most favorite things. ever.
5.) New Mexico is beautiful.
6.) there is such a thing as having too much of one kind of food (re: eating out in New Mexico every day and having New Mexican food for practically every meal) but there is no such thing as too many sopapillas.
7.) the presence of mice is not a moral failure but a normal occurrence for the general population.
8.) borrowing a farm cat from a kind friend is a good way to deal with mice panic.
9.) sometimes all of the paperwork and letters and stamps and fees do work together for good. Hooray for visa approval!
10.) it's been approximately 10 years since I gave my first sermon. craaaazy. even crazier, I still love preaching.
11.) being in charge of apple bobbing is fun until you run out of apples.
12.) it's true that the intercultural senior center has the best enchiladas ever.
13.) garden snakes. soil samples. and girly screaming.
14.) for 31 days, it went awfully fast.
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