#itinerancy

8:30am round up (i packed some crunchy snacks for lunch later)

9am arrive at The Zoo (gotta beat the crowd to the red panda enclosure)

9:02am-3:45pm commune with the red pandas (they can understand us)

3:45-4:00 gift shop (hand puppets and hefty plushies)

4:30 visit the police surplus store (know thy enemy)

5:00 visit the Intimate Treasures™ store directly across the street (for magic wands and comfier cuffs)

6:30 attend the new Waffle House's grand opening for dinner (cock tail attire)

8:00-11:30 hard cider + singalongs + captain sonar board game (i call dibs on radio operator)

As we noted in last week’s article, Francis expected his brothers to learn by imitation – and to understand that as Francis sought to imitate Christ, so too should the brothers. But in reality, the first generation of Assisi-area brothers simply did what Francis did: daily prayer, work at a local leprosarium, go to local churches to participate in Eucharist, eat, pray again, witness to the local…