Hello from Darin & Meeghan

Sorry that it has taken us a little while to post -- appreciate John taking the time to be able to run this. It is good to see photos and hear people chiming in. Appreciate those who have blogs -- great to be able to see what you are up to. Meeghan and I would love to get together with everyone sometime. Rocky Mountains always sound like a good place to go. Unfortunately our summer is becoming quite full and we will need to plan something out further. If anyone is ever looking to come to the San Francisco Bay Area, know that you have a home here. Look forward to hopefully interacting a little bit more through this site.

Dreamers of the Day

since shane tucker is one of those m.i.a. for now, i thought i'd (isaiah) speak for him until the blogger bug hits him. during the summer of 1998, dana, shane, and i were introduced to the world that is student impact. we were the 3 newbies of the intern program. while dana jumped head first into living with and getting to know the other girls of the program, shane and i shared some common times of basketball, small group, chess, camping, and some good heartfelt conversation.

among other qualities, shane is a thinker, a dreamer. someone who has a hunger and thirst to learn and think big. if you spent any kind of time with shane and his awesome wife christy, you would know very quickly that the tuckers had a vision for ireland. shane's dream for a retreat center prompted his appropriately titled email address: dreamingbig@hotmail.com. and at the end of the first year when some of us talked about the "ADL" positions at impact, shane accepted an offer to move across the pond to work with the Church of Ireland Youth Department.

since then, shane and christy have been faithfully serving in ireland. they have a beautiful daughter, neve, (which I regretfully lost her picture) besides his family, shane's dream has become a reality. shane is very involved with Dreamers of the Day, a network of leaders who strive to create space for reflection, while equipping individuals with skills and resources, empowering them to set their lives on a path that is personally fulfilling and challenging to others. the Creation Centre strives to create an environment that encourages and facilitates a more meaningful life.

until shane shows his face around here, you can track shane down at:
dreamingbig@hotmail.com
www.dreamtoday.org
shane's attempt at a blog

Ramblings Anyone??

So, I am going to take the homework challenge. I write on my blog pretty personally since it is all I know how to do. I guess I will here too.

What am I up to now? Grad School full time, work part time, getting my heart into trouble most of the other time, loving people and allowing myself to be loved.

I just thought about what a girl I have become. If you have not seen me I look a bit different than I did so many years ago. I care about myself much more. In a good way I think. When I think about becoming this girl and allowing myself to be such, I really think you all had a lot to do with it. I am now this woman who is not afraid to call someone up(one of you) and just start crying or say I just need to talk. I Love hugs and touch. I love myself because many of you have showed me that I am loved. You have been Jesus to me and helped me learn. We have been through so much laughter and tears. Some of us had our souls torn. I feel like a better woman because I had those years with you. Some more years than others. So we have all done a ton of growing since our intern days but I really feel like I owe you all much gratitude in opening up my heart. Thank you! And I think those people who come into contact with me on this side of 30 would thank you too.

So shortly what are you up to now? Or What do you think when you reflect on our years together? Or Whatever...I would just like to hear some rambling friends...what do you think about the new pope....

homework

ok, so we have all these folks as members.. GREAT!

Now your homework is to each post something -- anything on this blog.

The only way this thing works is if everyone contributes a little -- that way it stays fresh. Otherwise it's just one or two people and it gets old.

Try posting a photo, I don't know if it will let you. If not, I'll try and find a way to allow you to.

more photos

Allright, so I dug around and found a bunch of photos from the December 2003 Intern Retreat. I'll need Jackie (who booked the place we stayed) to remind me where it took place.

Be warned, you will see someone with no pants, someone in the shower, a makeout scene, people making faces, and Jill applying deoderant.

So here's the link to the page

Waiting for the bus, nothing to do but take a picture! -- Kathy and Jill came to CO early this year and we went to Keystone. We stayed at these super cool condos at Keystone, and commented on how spacious they were. Perhaps we could have our little get-together there? I'd need to find out if there are any big events there during the time period we decided to make this happen, but it might be an option.

Now these bring back some memories... Thanks for sharing Jackie!

Here are some more photos from Jackie. Jackie, where did you get the "nice" photos of me, Kathy and Jill? I've seen them before, but can't remember where. How did you come by those?

Jackie just sent me three sets of photos. This is the most recent. These are all photos of some of us since we have left the intern days.

Photos?

Given the significance of the "intern years" you'd think I'd be able to find some photos.

We've averaged one move a year since we've been married (9 years this June!) and the result is that many of our "memories" are buried in boxes, ready for the next move. We're hoping that the upcoming move will be our last, but until then, does anyone have any good group shots? If so, post them here or email them to me and I'll post them.

Also, let's continue the conversation about our next get-together. I say let's have it here (in Colorado), and depending on how many folks are coming we can have everyone stay at our house, or we can look into renting some cabins or even camping.

Finding everyone...

Hey friends - I think I will try to compile a good list of everyone & where they are & emails... I started to when Eric & Chantelle were on Trading Spaces but didn't finish. So I will ask for your help in a bit to add to & complete the list. Interns rule :)

Where is Everyone?

so, has this blog existed for a while? have all the interns been located and invited? everyone is so spread out, but at least the intern-et can be good for at least helping people keep in touch in a small way. ireland, vegas, oklahoma, chicago, no cal, so cal, central cal, colorado, wheaton, chicago, where else am i missing?

Will Write Soon

thanks John for doing this!!!

D & Meegs

let's get together

As you likely read, we want to get together. I've tried to make something happen with as many of us as I can at least once a year, so this is perfect.

Suggestion has been made to have this in Colorado sometime this year. I think for me it will need to be later in the summer -- July or August.

Let me know how, when, what you all want to do.

Ideas I have off the top of my head:

• Stay at my cousins' ranch (it's actually in Nebraska, but it is in the sandhills and is gorgeous, I'd have to ask and we'd probably be roughing it)


• Go camping in the mountains (real camping, no wussy showers or asphalt or "keep you mountain lion on a leash" laws)


• Stay at the "Casa del Daharsh" here in Fort Collins. We could have overflow sleeping quarters in the backyard in tents if necessary, but the house does have a fair amount of room.


• Stay at a camp or a retreat center in the Rockies (although many of these are already booked solid)


• Stay at the KOA outside of Steamboat Springs (cabins are relatively cheap, very basic, and we'd have to get quite a few if we all came) -- Steamboat is a good drive from my house, but Steamboat is beautiful -- and there are hot springs there!

So post your thoughts, please.

Go US!