Busy Month

Friends - I've been trying to think what to post lately and have just been feeling pretty dry. Some days I get three ideas; some weeks none. (I know you all wake up every morning thinking, "Maybe today Eric will post again! Oh blessed hope!") It's a pretty frantic month: lots of OCEs at the seminary (Outcome Assessment Exams) for graduating students; a masters thesis to examine at the end of the week; grading from a class on the first week of March; and a conference to read a paper at in Minnesota at the end of the month. I'm praying a lot about the 9 hour car ride there - I think we'll bring lots of M&Ms, and hand them out for spotting cows along the way. Or crows. Or lions (Will's favorite thing to look for).

That's pretty much it. Slow and steady. Life ain't no fifty yard dash.

In the meantime, let me direct your attention to a very nice video by Sigur Ros, a--get ready--rock band from Iceland. (No, I'm not making that up.) They write very lush, slow, orchestral sort of songs; this particular song is called Hoppipolla, which apparently in Icelandic means "hopping in puddles." The narrative of video is self-explanatory. I don't know why I find this guy's voice so soothing, but I do. "Beautiful" is not the first word I'd use to describe rock music I like, but Sigur Ros really is beautiful. See here:http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_EyI4p0yjDQ