most this amazing

it is finals week. the final week of my first year of seminary. what seemed like such an impossibility has, in part, come to pass. i find the task of processing all that has happened this past year impossible.

the weather, as if to taunt those of us stuck inside trying to finish up papers and study for exams, is warm and sunny. after a gray, precipitation-filled winter and spring, it is a welcome change. the green of nature seems to have popped out suddenly. rainbows of tulips are everywhere. pink and white blossoms dress the branches of trees. it smells of life.

cooper is currently curled up in a ball. he sleeps in a shaft of sunlight streaming through the open window. i must admit, i am jealous.