--I am officially done with CPE, although I'm sure I'll continue thinking about it and processing it all for some time. It was such a mixture of things: rewarding, exhausting, challenging, on and on I could go. I feel very lucky to have had a great group of people in the Chaplains department. I have heard the CPE horror stories, and each day I felt immense gratitude for the people around me.
--Yesterday, the morning view of the mountains was stunning, with swirls of clouds. I thought, I will miss this view. Of course, I'll have other views of other mountains throughout the week as I drive back and forth to Spartanburg and Bristol.
--I read an interview with Guillermo del Toro, who has directed/created a new version of Frankenstein. How fortuitous that it comes out the same semester when I'm teaching it! It sounds like it will be a movie that is more faithful to the book than past movies have been, but I've been fooled that way before.
--Last night, as I focused on bill paying tasks, my spouse had a YouTube video playing about Thoreau's Walden--it was a delightful listen of snippets from the journal along with some biographical and historical tidbits. I have no idea what the purpose of the video was; it didn't seem deep enough to have an educational purpose, and it didn't include a lot of personal appreciation.
--This morning, as I walked around camp, I thought of families who have bought old camps. I thought of the E. B. White essay, "Once More to the Lake," that my Creative Writing class is reading and using for inspiration. I'm thinking of a book for middle school readers, sort of a Harriet the Spy, if Harriet lived at an abandoned summer camp and was an aspiring naturalist. Or maybe it's a story for older readers, and maybe it involves a ghost from the 19th century.
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