deer droppings

been spending a lot of time in parks lately. last night jordan and i tried not to freeze looking up at the stars and satellites at valley forge park. there were deer everywhere. one of them came to visit us around the same time as a fox did, and toward the end we chased five or six of something small (young deer?), just trying in the dark to figure out what they were. jordan had brought the Biggest Blanket Ever to sit / lie on, but in the end the whole thing was wrapped around me several times. jordan has a random mind like mine, so that sitting i became a pale bodiless head in the starlight. lying down i was a retarded worm. jordan is good people. with my tiny blue LED flashlight i could make my new blue sneakers glow in the dark. it might be against the rules but when summer comes back i want to spend a night out there under the stars, with a good thick blanket to fend off deer droppings. this morning i started a sort of Bible study journalling exercise. each day i'm reading a verse of the book of james and picking it apart not so much from a theological perspective but from the perspective of my own emotional response... what resonates &c. james seemed like a good book to use because it has a very high density of meaning per verse. this will take me 108 days. already i feel like verse 1 has packed a real wallop based almost solely on the word "servant."