This weekend I went with some fellow volunteers to Sighnaghi, a tourist town in Kakheti, and Bodbe, the nearby monastery where St Nino preached (her relics are there, though I didn’t see them, and a spring is there that came up when she prayed for water). Here are some pictures.
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Choice
As I was (against my intention) glancing through my Facebook homepage, I encountered a somewhat interesting article linked by Bishop Savas (the only consistently facebooking Orthodox bishop I know of; apparently it’s one of his ministries) about choice. The article is alright, but the TED talk it links to is better. As an aside: at [...]
Posted by Molly on May 17, 2012
http://mollydodd.wordpress.com/2012/05/17/choice/
Kazbegi
This week I went traveling with two other volunteers, Amy and Teopile, (originally five, but three left after a few hours so they could get back on the marshutka) to Kazbegi, in North-Eastern Georgia. It’s pretty much the prototypical Georgian church on a mountain with an epic view, which shows up on most guidebooks. We [...]
Posted by Molly on May 13, 2012
http://mollydodd.wordpress.com/2012/05/13/kazbegi/
Christianity & Culture, continued
Christ is risen! “What is God teaching you through your time in Georgia?” I’m not certain, but perhaps what He’s teaching me through my time spent typing, with my laptop on my host family’s couch, is that it would be well to be less neurotic about how I interpret strangers’ generalized suggestions on stuff like [...]
Posted by Molly on May 10, 2012
http://mollydodd.wordpress.com/2012/05/10/christianity-culture-continued/
Speaking of Moldova
I am often an extraordinarily poor advocate in my own cause. Perhaps I could excuse myself by saying that the world as I’ve encountered it is altogether too full of advertisement and cheery proponents of the newest thing. I mean, here I am, hoping to go participate in an OCMC outreach event, and part of [...]
Posted by Molly on May 10, 2012
http://mollydodd.wordpress.com/2012/05/10/speaking-of-moldova/
Speaking of Temperament
I follow Adam McHugh’s blog The Introverted Church, and while I am generally sympathetic, I often find myself thinking things like: you can’t even deal with shaking someone’s hand? Really? What kind of shrinking violet are you? However do you deal with living in the world? I felt somewhat that way about the last guest [...]
Posted by Molly on May 8, 2012
http://mollydodd.wordpress.com/2012/05/08/3705/
More Thoughts
I’ve had a request for a Real Essay on the topic of some of my recent posts: mostly about being an introvert mission participant. I started writing notes for said Real Essay, and was reminded of how bad I am at revision. I also noticed that the conclusions I came to were often less important [...]
Posted by Molly on May 7, 2012
http://mollydodd.wordpress.com/2012/05/07/more-thoughts/
Sakartvelo’s Police Day
Apparently there was a big military parade in the center of town yesterday, and the president was here. Keep in mind the center of town is a fifteen minute walk from where I live, and I walk through it every day. It seems like the kind of thing I would have noticed, but yesterday just [...]
Posted by Molly on May 7, 2012
http://mollydodd.wordpress.com/2012/05/07/sakartvelos-police-day/
Impromptu Excursion
Life here is uneven. Yesterday I got up at six, took a train to Kaspi, sat around for two hours waiting for other volunteers, went on a monastery tour all day, got back to Gori at 1 am, woke up again at 7, and went to Gori Jvari, the little church on the hill, for [...]
Posted by Molly on May 6, 2012
http://mollydodd.wordpress.com/2012/05/06/impromptu-excursion/
Re-entry advice for introverts
First, if your experience does not form itself into an intelligible personal narrative, do not nurture feelings of frustration, inferiority, impiety, or whatever. You may have no idea where this story is going, or at what point you’re at in it. If someone tells you that your life has to be a good story, and [...]
Posted by Molly on May 3, 2012
http://mollydodd.wordpress.com/2012/05/03/re-entry-advice-for-introverts/
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I’m a young Orthodox woman living and teaching in the Republic of Georgia. I write about places I’ve been, books I’ve read, and thoughts on whatever seems interesting at the time. The password is my saint name.
