Man in the Mirror

I wound up getting to bed late last night because I found myself reading the sabbatical blog of my colleague in Norwell, Massachusetts who blogs under the pen name "Peacebang."

Last January she began a 5-month sabbatical that included:

∙ Spending time with a UU Fellowship in rural Texas.
∙ Visiting friends in the American Southwest.
∙ Spending approximately a month living in Guatemala.
∙ Returning to the US for a period of writing focusing on her ongoing doctoral dissertation.
∙ Interrupting her writing to take a road trip to Washington D.C. and back.
∙ Taking a tour of Turkey and Greece to visit historical sites of early Christianity.
∙ Along the way stopping in Romania to visit her congregation's partner church in Romania.
∙ Concluding her travels in Paris.

Whew! Even though our sabbaticals are different in some ways, in other ways they are similar. While I won't be working on a doctoral dissertation when I return to Kansas City, I do have some writing projects that I hope to begin. I found this post, in which Peacebang reflects on the "theme" of her sabbatical, to be quite meaningful.

[I couldn't resist titling an entry after a Michael Jackson song.]