We've experienced record heat here in Ontario during the last couple of days. Yesterday, with the humidity, the temperature measured 46C. Though I'm working in an air-conditioned office building, the air is horribly moist and I do find it difficult to breathe - the air is just so heavy.
Sunday I went sailing and wanted to post some pictures. My uncle's boat was beautiful - it's called Aley Cat because it's a Catalina. After spending the day on the boat I am sure I would love to travel around the world on a sailboat. It's a very freeing experience to sail through water and suddenly, when you're on open water, the horizon becomes so much broader and you're reminded the world is big.
I ran yesterday and today - the beginning of my training for "the run." I must run tomorrow morning and then again on Saturday too. So, for 11 weeks that will be the pattern of my existence!
I'm reading 'The Fountainhead' and enjoying it. I'm definately attracted to Rand's writing because of its heavy Romantic leanings - and I agree with her abhorence of Socialism. Reading Rand makes me question my attraction to Romanticism - I believe I've concluded it's the Romantic's view of nature as an eternal and living force. I think it's also their tendency to read deeply into everything in an effort to find out the reason and purpose of our existence and the existence of the universe that surrounds us.
Tonight I'll make my way down to Knox Presbyterian for the lecture. Last week's was horrible and solidified my distaste for Calvin College. The man who spoke was, I believe, a director of a centre for preaching at the college. What drivel. We spent an hour listening to his perfectly constructed sentences and his well rehearsed gestures, longing, most ferverently to hear just a grain of truth. Particularly when compared to Carson (who spoke the week before), the lecture was deeply unsatisfying. The speaker tonight is the Research Professor of Theology at Tyndale Seminary.