Today’s Non-update

I spent all day Tuesday mowing and doing other last-minute clean-up at my parents’ old house, then had a school board meeting.  I spent all day today at GF’s Serve Day.  Tomorrow I go back to the folk’s house to finish up the last minute stuff, take Mom to sign papers at the closing in the afternoon, and then go back to the house one last time to walk the property lines with the buyers. So you’ll have to wait until probably Friday to get another update.

No, this isn’t an update. Let me explain:

Jamie was my Serve Group leader today.  He has a fascinating approach to leadership. We served at Mountain View Middle School. He took part of the group to assemble whiteboards and exercise machines. I went with another part reorganizing some of the shelves in the library. Our job turned out to be a lot bigger than anyone expected. About 11:30, Jamie’s group was done and Jamie came to see how we were doing in the library.

He looked at the stacks of  hundreds of books spread out on the floor in alphabetical order and announced “It doesn’t look like you’ve done anything.”  That motivated us, in ways you can probably imagine.

At lunch we chatted about how long GF would continue doing Serve Day. “Everything has to end sometime,” he said, students all around him quietly eating. “Although I’m willing to do it as long as I’m getting a paycheck.”

He also told me I didn’t need to do an update today. “Don’t bother,” he said. “I know Pittsburgh had another great day.”

Of course, by that time I was completely under the spell of Jamie’s leadership. So it’s probably pointless for you to even scroll down to see if there’s an update.

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