It is Sunday evening. Kim is off at the barn with friends. Fiona is in the shower. Mairead is meeting with another JET program participant and Miranda should be on her way back to Boston.

I am sitting in my chair in the living room. There is so much going on in my mind right now. The Google Glass development is proceeding nicely. I've shared the early version of my app with other Glass users and have lots of ideas about things to work on.

In a week and a half, it will be the Falcon Ridge Folk Festival. I have looked at the list of Emerging Artists for this year's show case and set up a playlist on Spotify. I need to listen to the performers.

A church, our rector is on maternity leave. Different people are filling in, in different ways, and next Sunday, I will deliver the sermon. I've been thinking out what I will say and will spend some time this week writing it out.

This weeks sermon was based on the story of Mary and Martha. With all these things that I'm thinking about, I feel a bit like Martha. Yet one of the biggest things going on right now is that Mairead will leave for Japan next Saturday. She is going for a year, and then we will see what she decides to do next.

Mairead has been to Japan before, but never for so long. There is a pang in my heart as I think of not seeing my beloved eldest daughter for perhaps as long as a year, or maybe even long. I am excited for her, but anticipating missing her as well. There were big hugs as she left the house.

Yet my way is to sit quietly, to reflect, perhaps a little bit of Mary in the midst of Martha's business.