Today was a very good day, but also very tiring.
Student colloquy at Brite Divinity School with Dr. Kwok Pui Lan went well this morning. That is besides the fact that I arrived late (must be a colored people thing), but only to walk in and see friendly and welcoming faces. As I walked in, Dr. Timothy Lee immediately pointed me to my seat, which as a respondent, I was seated between Dr. Namsoon Kang and Dr. Kwok Pui Lan. That was a great honor!
Topic of discussion: Dr. Kwok Pui Lan’s chapter in Off The Menu: Asian and Asian North American Women’s Religion and Theology. Edited by Dr. Kwok Pui Lan, Dr. Rita Nakashima Brock and others.
Adam DJ Brett was the other respondent. I thought he responded exceedingly well, as always. I was told I did well too! 🙂 I will try to upload a podcast when I have it figured out. It could be sooner if someone can provide me with simple to follow directions. Sorry I did not get everyone’s photo that participated at the student colloquy this morning. (I was a little occupied catching up with people.)
It was so good to see colleagues and friends. It was also so good to see some of my old professors, even if only for a brief moment, Dr. Warren Carter, Dr. James Duke, Dr. Joretta Marshall, and Dr. Leo Perdue. And of course, Dr. Namsoon Kang and Dr. Timothy Lee. I hope to see the rest tomorrow.
We had lunch with the TCU Religion Department’s faculty and students at the Wesley Foundation.
And to end the day, we also had dinner at a Korean restaurant in Fort Worth with BASA (Brite Asian Student Association).
About this morning: I roamed around Brite/TCU looking for a parking and unfortunately could not find one. I was not expecting the parking fiasco there. But I was glad to see their new building under construction. I ended up parking illegally, and received a nice parking ticket from TCU.
Summing up my thoughts for today is that song from Cheers:
Making your way in the world today
Takes everything you’ve got.
Taking a break from all your worries
Sure would help a lot.
Wouldn’t you like to get away?
Sometimes you want to go
Where everybody knows your name
and they’re always glad you came.
You wanna be where you can see
our troubles are all the same
You wanna be where
Everybody knows
Your name.
You wanna go where people know
People are all the same
You wanna go where
Everybody knows your name.
a journey in existence 