Hurricane Ophelia paid a visit to Ireland yesterday, but didn’t really hit London.  It did give us some remarkable afternoon and evening skies.  The temperatures were unseasonably mild and it was, an otherwise, unseasonably pleasant day.  The weather made it a great day to hit a couple of favorite shopping venues, as I realized that I was starting my last full week for this adventure.  Having a new God-Grandson, among a few other special folks to buy Christmas presents for, I thought, I’d better get a move on.

I finally finished “The Lost Way,” the book I’ve been reading during this trip.  It is a book written by a Biblical scholar, but written at an accessible level. It examines the earliest texts of Jesus’s followers, focusing on “Q,” the lost earliest written source and “the Gospel of Thomas” and ancient text of Jess sayings an aphorisms that the Church rejected when it codified the 4 Gospels now in the New Testament.  The lost way discussed is the way of Wisdom.  It is the faith based on the teachings of Jesus before his death.  The book explains the significance of the 4 New Testament gospels to the Jewish Revolt against the Roman Empire and why the story of Jesus’s Resurrection and the Kingdom became so important while the Wisdom tradition lost traction.  It was a book that gave me great hope.

The British Museum is just a 15 or 20 minute walk from Clare Court.  As I was meeting with a current Oneonta student studying in London not too far from there, I thought, I might as well, stop by and visit some of my old haunts from last year’s trip.  Today was a crisp Autumn morning.   As I neared the museum, the little streams and eddies of primary children started to appear.  UK  schools do take advantage of the museums.  As always, I stopped in to see the Parthenon Marbles,   Then it was off for a ramble toward Tottenham Court Road and the Starbucks where I was to meet Vincent, a current SUNY Oneonta student studying in London.  And for the second time, I picked the wrong Starbucks.  But, as the picture shows, we finally got together.  Vincent is a great example of the high quality of students choosing SUNY Oneonta.  What a pleasure it was to spend some tme with him!

 

 

 

 

 

 

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