This past weekend was good. We were at the Protectorate / Captain of the Guard all day Saturday. It was a good event, despite very light attendance. Sometimes I wish we lived somewhere closer to the rest of the kingdom, and in some principality, so we would have less calendar foo. Getting people to come down here is hard enough, without winding up having to book our events against investiture and other things... Oh well.

HL Nightshade came down to be RMIC, and was absolutely wonderful. Worked with me on possible re-authorization, which I didn't really think I was ready for, and I was right. Not much more work needed, though, to get up to snuff. I felt really bad that there was no one for him to play with, aside from the 3 of us in the barony, and one person who came to visit (Zanaida). Friedrich and I took him out to dinner as a thank you for coming all that way, and it was cool to get to just hang out. We're usually all so busy...

Sunday, Autumn was invited to sunday school with one of her friends from preschool (they're Baha'i). Let me start this with telling you that we don't go to church. I don't have a real love of organized religion. I do believe in having spiritual values, and communing in some way of your choosing with the divine, in whatever form you believe it to hold, but I don't go in big for sitting in a big church to talk about it. Been there, done that. There are some things about certain churches that I find comforting - the music, for instance. But I could pass on the people, 90% of the time...

It was a riot. The lesson was on "truthfulness." Those who know me well know that honesty is one of my favorite virtues to strive for. The kids had a good time, but then, it's a 5 year old, my 4 year old, and the other girl's older brother, who's like 9 at the most. The kids were mostly getting it. The adults had a nice chat after the kids ran off to play, but it really struck me funny that, when it comes down to it, regardless of what "religion" people profess, they're all after some of the same basic behaviors, and these virtues, like honesty, are always present, one way or the other.

Too bad folks have to get into such nasty arguments about it all...