girltheology

Yesterday was officially Thanksgiving Day. But since I had already had Thanksgiving dinner at the Thomson's with a whole crew of their family on Sunday night, and since I'd run out of dog food (I couldn't believe myself! I had dog food on hand 3 days before I got Zen, but somehow neglected to notice I was running low and it was a holiday weekend), and since the closest place that sold dog food on a holiday Monday was Saskatoon - Off I went!

"Off we went" is probably a more accurate statment. Zen came with, because the thought of her sitting in the back yard starving while I went on a round trip to a city 270 kms away was heart wrenching. So instead I let her starve in the back seat.

Isn't she adorable? It always breaks my heart to leave her anywhere!

Anyways - once the food shopping was out of the way, we met up with my friend Sean who is doing his Master's in Philosophy at the University of Saskatchewan (Aristotelian Ethics - right up my alley!). We took Zen for a long walk around the University and threw the frisbee for her and let her have a good romp. It is a beautiful campus, and it was a beautiful day.

It's strange because although we get autumn on the coast - it doesn't have the same feel as here. Here the leaves fall more suddenly - you wake up one morning and the tree leaves are no longer green, they are brilliant shades of yellow and gold that match the fields. Sometimes in the past week I've sat and watched the leaves fall in the wind and they swirled around and looked like glitter falling from the sky.

Speaking of glitter from the sky - there have been a lot of geese around because of the rain this year, and while driving into the city, there were a couple of instances where I looked up and all I could see were swarms of geese. That's right - SWARMS. No "V-formations" here - there were so many they looked like those big patches of starlings or sparrows that fly over the Fraser delta in BC. It was phenomenal.

Thanksgiving Sunday I celebrated with my two normal services - hopefully will have another entry about that sometime tomorrow.

The quote at the top of this entry I got from a little bulletin board sign that my Grandma Wallace popped in the mail to me. I'm so lucky she's always popping things in the mail to me.

Anyways - in this season of gratitude we have so much to be thankful for. It's easy to be joyful, and that is exactly what I am today - full of joy.

"We call 'happiness' a certain set of circumstances that makes joy possible. But we call joy that state of mind and emotions that need nothing to feel happy." -Andre Gide.