Quite a week

[lillibet]

This week has been full of things, each of which deserves a post of its own. But at the rate I post these days, I suspect I will not get around to any of them if I wait until I can write them up in detail. So here are some bullet points:

- Very early on Wednesday dpolicar and I flew to El Paso to take part in the Let Our Families Go event of "pilgrimage, protest, and prophetic witness" on Thursday. It was centered around protesting at a tent prison near Tornillo housing migrant teens. It was a huge experience. We flew home very early on Friday morning.

- On Friday night I got to see Robyn Hitchcock perform at City Winery and realized that I first saw him in concert more than thirty years ago. It was a great show--he was really on fire.

- On Saturday I hosted the strike party for She Kills Monsters. Everyone seemed very happy, there was enough food, and the last five guests left sometime after I went up to bed about 2:30am. Here are links to the main dishes that I made, with Shelley's help:

https://www.seriouseats.com/recipes/2016/11/classic-butternut-squash-soup-recipe.html
https://www.thekitchenmagpie.com/how-to-make-a-rainbow-cake-trifle/
https://www.easypeasyfoodie.com/mini-toad-in-the-holes/
https://www.foodnetwork.com/recipes/rachael-ray/creamy-chicken-and-mushroom-one-pot-with-pot-pie-toppers-recipe-2200961
https://minimalistbaker.com/1-hour-vegan-shepherds-pie/

- Today I attended our Thanksgiving intergenerational worship service, at which muffyjo made her debut as a Worship Associate and we learned that yesterday's Harvest Moon Fair (which I was unable to attend, but which Jason did a lot of work on) earned around $19,000 for our social justice work. Afterward I attended a luncheon at our minister's new condo for some of the leaders of our congregation to meet the couple who will serve as our pastoral team during our minister's upcoming sabbatical. After a nap at home I went back to the meeting house for a planning session with some of the youth for a dance fundraiser for their service trip and then stayed for the first hour of Youth Group before begging off and heading home, where I got to read to Alice and have bedtime conversation for the first time in a week.

As I said to a couple of people today, I am grateful for the bounty of opportunities I have to do things that I love and deem important. But I will also be very grateful for sleep.

Comments

[gilana]

Whoa, that really is a lot! Sleep sounds like a very good thing.

[kelkyag]

Catching up on sleep sounds like an excellent followup to that week.

Thank you for hosting, and thank you for the recipe links! Mike had been pondering asking after the toad-in-a-hole recipe, and now he has it.

[daily_alice]

The one big change I made was using bacon fat instead of olive oil in the pans. Toward the end of the night I was out of white flour, so I used half that and half whole wheat in the last batch, along with more salt and some black pepper, and I think that batch was the best. Good luck!

[kelkyag]

Deliciousness may ensue. :)

[amaebi]

Thanks on behalf of humanity for your justice work, and whoa dude, that of your congregation, which impresses me tremendously.

[lillibet]

It's an amazing community. We're trying hard to live our faith in the world and that support gives me more courage than I think I would have on my own.

[coraline]

that is a Whole Lot. thank you for taking that journey, and for those recipes!

hope you slept well.

[gale_storm]

Wow. Sleep after all of that stuff sounds much needed!