Comments | kishiriadgr: Reading material & theology

kishiriadgr

Reading material & theology

Jun 19, 2009 18:09

Despite my doubts, I have nonetheless put the little paperback Bible I showed in a video earlier into my backpack. I'm up to 2 Kings and am finding the Old Testament far more disturbing and alien than ever before. I'm feeling strongly that this may have been Jesus's history--but it's not mine. It may be necessary for understanding the world of ( Read more... )

books, spirituality

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brotherskeeper1 June 20 2009, 01:41:22 UTC

I am going to miss you ... I hope you can post on LJ from time to time. Are you taking a military transport plane or civilian airline? If you were refueling at SAFB I'd certainly be there to see you. I can go back to the flight line ( ... )

kishiriadgr June 20 2009, 01:51:38 UTC

We're flying to Georgia tomorrow. We'll be at Ft. Benning for the week, then going to Kuwait next Saturday. I expect the next week to be the worst part of the deployment, and figure part of my misery is having flashbacks to Basic Training. I keep telling myself I'm not going back to Alpha 1/20 (Reception) but this is going to be a lot of the same stuff. I'll be able to read my own books while waiting in lines, though, and when the day is done, my time is my own.

Benning has WiFi in some buildings, and at Arifjan I'll have it in the barracks, so I expect to be online as much as I normally should when I'm working 9-5.

Thank you for the kind thoughts--we are now going to get some Greek food and visit seki_raku.

desert_vixen June 20 2009, 05:01:26 UTC

Yes, pretty much everyone had a stuffed animal or travel pillow with them. (I had mine in one of my duffles...)

Good luck! Also, you have to fit your backpack in a pretty small "carryon" box for the flight, so when you leave GA, you may have to stash some stuff in a duffle.

DV

kishiriadgr June 20 2009, 05:02:30 UTC

I'm hoping there will be room in one of the duffles. My personal one, the one I have packed and waiting in the kitchen right now, has no room in it left at all.

Weekend's high in Ft. Benning is 100 degrees with 76% humidity. Arifjan is supposed to be dry, so it'll be cake after a week at Benning.

garpu June 20 2009, 07:05:39 UTC

I find I either really like or really hate Thich Nhat Hanh's writings. His book of short stories (The Stone Boy) I really liked, but I didn't like 'Living Buddha, Living Christ'. *shrugs*

kwokj June 21 2009, 02:43:35 UTC

I wonder if I'd bring my Teddy with me. On the one hand, I'd want him for sure, but on the other, I'd be worried something would happen to him.