I’ve spent the last few days over in Fresno, California visiting friends.  Pictures to the right in the photostream for receipts, right?  The pictures are from a Monday afternoon hike to Pincushion Mountain Peak, which is just outside Fresno.  The day was beautiful, the company top notch, and the view from the top was worth it.  I’m still feeling the burn from the trip up, but we made our way down on a different, more gentle route, which was also nice.

Besides that, I found some great used CDs at the Mad Monk and a Frederick Buchner book and a paperback-and-revised copy of A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius by Dave Eggers. I finished Rowan William’s Passions of the Soul and made good headway in O’Donavan’s Disappearance of Ethics (whose cover currently appears on the side there ->).  I hope to finish DOE by Easter Sunday.  And I’ve got one more reflection on Varden’s Shattering of Loneliness to put together.

I’m writing this in the A-gate food court at the Phoenix Sky Harbor International airport.  The final leg of my journey looks like it will leave on time, which puts me into HNL in the early evening.  The trip has gone well, though PHX isn’t really the kind of airport you want to have for a longer layover.  Just not many places to sit and relax.  Granted, that’s not what airports are for, but one can dream.