Wintering

We are enjoying our vacation and really delight in having little on our schedules.  Cloudy-rainy days are for reading. I've discovered ebook lending from the Bellville library and am reading The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks about a black woman's cancer cells that were/are used in all kinds of medical research and her poor black family got nothing monetarily from the buying and selling of her cells. It is thought provoking and I recommend it. John is reading one of his favorite spiritual authors -- Thomas Keating. The book is Reflections on the Unknowable. He's read me excepts. It's quite good.

One thing that strikes me about living here for a while is the amazing amount of resources available as opposed to the poor, rural community where we live in Oregon.  I was in an Asian super market recently that was bigger than a super Walmart and had nothing but Asian food. It was like a trip around Asia in one big place.  Houston has a lot of top ranked medical institutions like Herman, Memorial, Methodist, Baylor, and Children's hospitals that we pass on the way into the city. Of course, the fossil fuel industry is what fuels most of the growth in the state not the least of which is the nation's fourth largest city - Houston.

I got a chance to visit St. Christopher's Episcopal church in West Houston, which has a beautiful healing chapel with a stature of the mother and child which looks more like Christ and child. See below.

Of course, the sunsets and sunrises are spectacular which the sun decides to visit us.  After mass on Sunday John and I went to a local favorite restaurant called Tony's in Sealy. John got pie and Blue Bell ice cream for breakfast. Hey! We're on vacation!  Hope all is well with you.

Healing Chapel at St. Christophers's Episcopal Church

 Sunrise

 Cherry Pie and Ice Cream for Breakfast

 View from the deck