In some ways, it was strange: a grad school friend and I did a Facebook call. It was like a Skype call, so in some ways, it wasn't strange. But it did start to rain heavily while we were talking, and I noticed some rain dripping on the windowsill. We haven't had water instrusion through that window since Hurricane Irma; in fact, that's the only time we've had water intrusion through that window.
By the end of yesterday afternoon, we had water intrusion through all the windows that occasionally let water in, which is about half of them. In a way, I feel fortunate--we don't have consistent leaks, with damage easily contained. Roof leaks would be more difficult for me to handle. Fixing these kinds of leaks is a headache though. It's so hard to know where the water comes in and how it travels.
It was the kind of afternoon where I was glad we didn't have plans. We sat and watched the flooding creep ever closer to the house, but happily, the rains let up, and the water receded. Still, in the past year, it's the second flooding rain event, and they weren't related to anything tropical.
But hopefully, as I think back over this week-end, I'll remember the Pentecost Poetry Project that brought me lots of joy. I had been assembling small videos during my morning walks last week, videos that are part poem, part image, part theology. Here's one that I didn't use in the larger project:
Yesterday, I put them all together. It wasn't anything I'd ever done before, but Windows 10 comes with a video editor function that gave me all that I needed. I loved thinking about how to order them, how to make them most effective, how to finish. I loved remembering the walks I took, the inspiration that I felt.
On Sunday, which is Pentecost, I'll post the whole video here. In the meantime, I'm thinking about a larger project. Could I do something similar with other church festival days? Could I do it without being repetetive?
Stay tuned!
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