Daniel Farrell

You’ve probably seen something on the news about the violence in Kenya since the election. If not then you should really follow a better news source(I suggest The Real News and/or CNN). This type of story is always more real when you have a personal connection to it. My friend Jake was over there doing photography work when all hell broke loose. To hear his story and see pictures head over and read his blog post about it. It’s a crazy and amazing story that includes getting attacked with a machete and being surrounded by an angry mob. I’m so relieved that he is home safe. Pray for peace in Kenya.

At my last count there were 23 people here for potluck last night! That is a record crowd! And the food was fantastic! Nothing is better than a house full of friends and lots of good stuff to eat and drink. Thanks everyone for coming out, we had a blast!

Today is my college roommate Drew’s 30th birthday(Happy Birthday Drew!). I know this because Facebook keeps track of that stuff for me, otherwise I am really bad about knowing birthdays. So I left Drew a comment saying happy birthday on Facebook. He wrote back and said he was just thinking about us because he was sitting in the Richmond airport. Weird. My college roommate who I haven’t seen in 9 years was 6 miles from our house. So after a couple more messages back and I forth I ended up going over to the airport and we got to hang out for about an hour and a half. How cool is that! It’s pretty amazing that we both look pretty much like we did 9 years ago, except he can grow facial hair now(I still can’t really, stupid bald patches) and has some. We had a nice time catching up on life. Good times. Thank you Facebook for making that happen.

If any other old friends read this and ever come through Richmond you better let me know so we can meetup, okay?

We got to go to the house blessing for Gabriel House Catholic Worker today. It is a catholic worker house of hospitality that our friends Matthew and Sarah have started with their friend Emily. They bought a run down house up a bit from us on the East End of the city. It’s an exciting project and I’m excited to get to see it evolve. They will be having community dinners Tuesday, Wednesday and Thursday nights at their house so if you are in Richmond you should stop by for dinner and hear their dreams. Rock on guys! Thanks for inviting us to be a part of the blessing today!

Potluck last night was a lot of fun! Thanks everyone for coming. We are going to have them every Thursday night, so if you missed this week come on over next week. See you then!