Going Low Tech

College friends are indeed forever. And my classmates from the College of St. Teresa, Winona MN understand what it means to keep a journal. It is more introspective than blogging, so I will treasure their beautiful gift of a leather-bound journal plus their many kind thoughts and prayers as I leave for the Peace Corps. I've added this photo from this morning's breakfast gathering.

And I've added the words to A Song of Peace which is sung to the tune of Finlandia - and which I mentioned as inspiring me even as a child to think of people in other lands having blue skies and clover - so they must have hopes and dreams of peace as I do.

This is my song, O God of all the nations

A song of peace for lands afar and mine

This is my home, the country where my heart is

Here are my hopes, my dreams, my holy shrine.

But other hearts in other lands are beating

With hopes and dreams as true and high as mine.

My country's skies are bluer than the ocean

And sunlight beams on cloverleaf and pine
But other lands have sunlight too and clover
And skies are everywhere as blue as mine.


O hear my song, O God of all the nations
A song of peace for their land and for mine.