1. Build things: In a few short hours I will head over to Couderay, WI for the annual fall work weekend. I’ll rendezvous with Mother and Father Prosen, Pumpkin, cousins and an uncle. We’ll drink PBR (Hamms if I’m really lucky) and spend tomorrow digging out and building a retaining wall.
2. Read Von Balthasar’s Love Alone is Credible: I am so excited for this book I can barely speak. Theological Aesthetics generally makes my heart explode. This book comes highly recommended from someone much smarter than I am. It’s probably going to be an intellectual reach for me, but I can’t wait to start soaking it in.
3. Watch Ebert's Top Ten of 2007: I’ve only seen Atonement and you can be sure that I’m going to watch it again next week. If the other movies are half as moving and beautiful, it’s likely that I’ll die from an actual heart explosion. This seems like a good way to die.
4. Attend the SOT’s Oktoberfest: Free beer and silly hats—does life get any better?
5. Training runs: I’ve been fighting a wicked case of shin splints for the past three weeks. I “ran” two miles on Tuesday only to spend the rest of the week getting yelled at by my PT and icing and elevating my legs. I have the all clear to give a training run a go on Sunday. 7 miles, here I come!
6. Stew in a Pumpkin:
7. Long Arboretum Walks
8. Learn to Make Mead
9: Finally Get Enough Sleep
10. Read Rahner’s Happiness Through Prayer: If Rahner were alive and had groupies, I would be their queen.
11. Outline My Theological Aesthetics Paper: This requires reading most of what Mary Oliver and Wendell Berry have written while writing poems in their respective styles—I love being able to do an English paper and call it Theology.
I’m willing to take suggestions for other awesomeness that should commence next week.
