E-mail surprise

Thursday, 12:47 pm

By Kate

As you may have noticed, I’ve been inattentive around here. My poor blog languishes and I do other things. Every now and then I just get tired of blogging. It’s certainly not permanent and I don’t have any plans to fade away into the sunset. But I expect to be blogging quite lightly for the next few days. Nevertheless, I thought I’d mention…

Last night I got around to checking my email and found a message from the professor I mentioned in my post on Christian Stewardship. Well, that surprised me aplenty.

It’s been 30 years since I last saw the man so he’d rank right up there in the group I’d call The Last People On Earth I’d Expect To Hear From.

Now, I believe I’ll respond, but when we last had interaction, he was most definitely Professor. And all these many years that’s how I’ve thought of him. And here he signs his email with a simple ‘Jack’. I dunno if I can force my fingers to write Dear Jack.

Anyway, it was a nice email note and I think it’ll be interesting to answer the man’s question...."I’m also curious who I’m writing to.” I would be surprised if he remembered me, but if he does it’ll be the extremely naive 18 year old who was so painfully shy that she’d blush if anyone looked at her cross eyed. Things do change with enough time.

Curious message though. A definite environmentalist paddling against the current—and making progress. Teaching interesting classes with Sierra Club personnel and coming up with new ways of thinking. Or at least ways of thinking not exactly common for the Christian community. The world changes.