Dreaming about architecture...maybe I should look into taking a class in that area...? It would still cost $1000...

It rained! A lot! it was great, I loved walking in it. And it made it cooler.

Lunch with Becky. We tested the cafe at Piedmont College (where Prince Ave. Baptist used to be). It was good, in the meat and three veg style and only cost $7. Always a pleasure.

New family coming to the Shelter today, with four young children.

Also a young man came by who wants to be our next Americorps volunteer. He is planning to go for his MSW starting in the fall. His undergraduate degree is in music. He is going to volunteer some while waiting to find out about the Americorps position and applying for jobs.

Potluck, nominating committee, choir rehearsal. I have a 3-word solo in one of our songs. We are singing one of Robert Frost's poems: Why Not Choose Something Like a Star. It's beautiful and dense.

O Star (the fairest one in sight),
We grant your loftiness the right
To some obscurity of cloud --
It will not do to say of night,
Since dark is what brings out your light.
Some mystery becomes the proud.
But to be wholly taciturn
In your reserve is not allowed.

Say something to us we can learn
By heart and when alone repeat.
Say something! And it says "I burn."
But say with what degree of heat.
Talk Fahrenheit, talk Centigrade.
Use language we can comprehend.
Tell us what elements you blend.

It gives us strangely little aid,
But does tell something in the end.
And steadfast as Keats' Eremite,
Not even stooping from its sphere,
It asks a little of us here.
It asks of us a certain height,
So when at times the mob is swayed
To carry praise or blame too far,
We may choose something like a star
To stay our minds on and be staid.