Here I am at LAX, using some time online and attending to some details for the new semester while I await my flight for San Francisco. The flight is on "flow control alert", which is a new category for me, but it means that the air traffic controllers in SFO are delaying departures… So I do not know when I will arrive. The flight was originally scheduled for 11.00, and then it was pushed to 11.45, and then to 12.00… and now it is slated for 13.00. As I have been doing all year, it is safer for me just to take the BART from SFO to Berkeley because the arrival times are not dependable, so there is no need to hold up anyone else.
Last night after dinner I watched the DVD called HOOK with Dustin Hoffman and Robin Williams. I've seen it before (in Italian) and it a thought-provoker as are most of Robin William's films. So as I sit in the airport, instead of getting irritated, I am thinking of some of the movie themes and messages. I've come away with this: sunshine and happy thoughts!
Happy thoughts allow us to fly (cf. Tinkerbell to Peter Pan) and happy memories give us power that protects us (cf. Remus Lupin to Harry Potter). Hooo!!!!
Monday, August 18, 2008
Tuesday, August 05, 2008
Travel setbacks tire but do not discourage
The return trip to San Francisco was as eventful as the trip to St Paul. With delays, mechanical failures, weather systems, re-routing, I arrived in San Francisco on Tuesday at 11.00. I had received a message to make a call to the Salesian provincial office in San Francisco upon my arrival, which I did from the Red Carpet United Lounge. After that little piece of business, I left the SFO United Terminal and took the light rail train (BART) home, arriving in my house after 13.00 in the afternoon. I think that I will either do a painting about all that happened or write a ballad.
Reflecting on the events of the weekend, I have remained very satisfied. It is great that our DSPT president Fr Michael Sweeney was able to speak to the assembly with the keynote on Sunday morning. I kept thinking of his talk all during my travels yesterday and today. What he says makes SOOOO much sense, and it does lift us (as Church) out of the controversial and into the practical side of things. It is an invitation to again look forward as we collaborate and work for unity. It is so John the Twenty-thirdish in orientation. Most challenging and most consoling at the same time.
Michael Sweeney's talk was the finale of a great Salesian Conference. I felt so good after the whole Conference this weekend it that no amount of airline woes could undo my sense of joy.
Having said this, I will also note that after I got home, I took a nap and slept from before 14.00 to after 18.00. What time zone am I in??? Ah, Pacific Daylight! Perfect!!!
Reflecting on the events of the weekend, I have remained very satisfied. It is great that our DSPT president Fr Michael Sweeney was able to speak to the assembly with the keynote on Sunday morning. I kept thinking of his talk all during my travels yesterday and today. What he says makes SOOOO much sense, and it does lift us (as Church) out of the controversial and into the practical side of things. It is an invitation to again look forward as we collaborate and work for unity. It is so John the Twenty-thirdish in orientation. Most challenging and most consoling at the same time.
Michael Sweeney's talk was the finale of a great Salesian Conference. I felt so good after the whole Conference this weekend it that no amount of airline woes could undo my sense of joy.
Having said this, I will also note that after I got home, I took a nap and slept from before 14.00 to after 18.00. What time zone am I in??? Ah, Pacific Daylight! Perfect!!!
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