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- The museums in London are outstanding. I visited the Tate Modern, the British Museum, and the National Gallery. The British Museum is also… a weird kind of monument to colonialism, occupation and appropriation. I was kind of primed for this after visiting the Acropolis of Athens twice- and the Museum of the Acropolis twice. The Greek folks aren’t shy about letting you know what the British did to the Parthenon… and that they still have a lot of it, and haven’t returned it to Greece. That’s also just one country… there’s a lot of priceless cultural stuff from a lot of places there. It is, however, a really amazing and beautiful place. Also- I got high tea at the British Museum and National Gallery. Pretty nice experience.
- I spent 2 evenings with a theologian who’s a friend of friends. One evening was just 2 of us; another evening, another theologian who just finished her PhD joined us. It was really fun to be able to talk about that stuff for a while… stuff that I usually wrestle with alone. It was also especially meaningful ’cause this guy writes and thinks about interpretation of scripture from a narrative historical perspective, which is kind of where I’m at…
- In honor of MJ, (my close friend, bandmate, and Beatle fanatic,) I stopped by Abbey Road Studios and left a note from our band…
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