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Christmas At My House

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This is the first year that my family has had Christmas at my place. It is also the first time I’ve had Christmas at my place, since moving here to work at 3ABN in 1999. It was a little bit stressful, since Christmas fell immediately on the heels of the GYC convention. Getting home from GYC was a challenge in itself. You can read all about it at the end of my post about GYC on my Xanga blog.

I had hoped to have a Christmas tree, but a full week before Christmas all the local suppliers (including Wal-Mart, Menards, Home Depot, Lowe’s) were completely sold out. I don’t really care for artificial trees … they just seem so fake … so this year we went without a tree. Well, not completely. My rubber plant and ficus did extra duty as stand-ins.

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Holiday Travel Plans

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For Thanksgiving I will be joining my mom at Eugene and Heidi’s home in Arkansas (at OHA/OHC). I’ll be there November 22-25. It’s always nice to be with family during the holidays, and there is a chance I may see some other friends there as well.

In December I am planning to attend the GYC conference, December 19-23. Just yesterday I finalized by airfare and hotel reservations. Glad to have all of that out of the way. I’m still not sure where I will actually spend Christmas, but there is a good chance it will be here at my home unless I have a new car before then. The same holds true for New Year’s Day. It will be the first time I’ve been here at my home for those holidays in a number of years, maybe five years or more.

St. Louis Art Museum

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This past Sunday, July 29, I went with my friends Adam and Gabriela, and Michael and Jan, to the St. Louis Art Museum. I didn’t take any pictures inside, since I assumed that photography there was prohibited (the usual practice in art museums).

I was very impressed. They had many kinds of art from a wide variety of cultures and ages. Everything from ancient Egyptian, to Native American, to Asian, to European, to modernist, and more. Besides an extensive collection of paintings, sculptures, and other purely artistic objects, they also had many artist household items, including chairs, cabinets, tables, clocks, vases, lamps, tableware, and so forth, from across the last 200 years or so. They also had reconstructions of typical American and European upper class household rooms from the 1800s or thereabouts, which were quite fascinating.

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New Harmony

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The previous Sunday, July 22, I went with my friends Adam and Gabriela to New Harmony, Indiana. The drive took about 1.5 hours. Although I had heard about it a number of times, this was my first time visiting.

New Harmony was first established as a religious community, and later as a more secular communal experiment. You can read more about its interesting history here and here.

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