AICM Journal Entry #3

1.1.07

It felt good to get some physical work done today. We painted today, washed some walls prior to aforementioned painting, and cleaned the floors in the science lab and in the modular so they could seal them with wax. Pretty lowkey, low-brain-usage kind of day. Tomorrow we head down to the rez on the Blue Bus. It'll be nice to connect with the kids. I find them hopelessly beautiful, even the dirtiest kid. Their eyes, dark and deep, suck you in and tell a story full of dreams, both alive and dead; innocence bruised but straining to breathe again; joy that blooms with the slightest rain. It is a story that is still being written, in which we can write a small sentence here and there, and, perhaps with that sentence, forever alter their story and work it more seemlessly into the fabric of God's continuing story.

shalom, matt