Windrose Ramblings: Texas

Life at the International Linguistics Center (ILC), Dallas

As some of you may recall, we were here in September, 2022. Dave and I volunteer with SIL/Wycliffe, an organization that works in language development and Bible translation. Dave is part of the AIM team (Analytics, Information and Mapping), specifically the mapping part. He’s been volunteering remotely, for a number of years. The team was planning a series of meetings and as we wanted to be snowbirds we came for these meetings and stayed on for a couple of weeks.

As part of the meetings, we all went to Mt. Lebanon Bible Camp near Dallas. We spent two days of reflection, worship and team building It was beautiful weather to enjoy God's world.

While Dave was busy with his work, I volunteered part-time at the Boutique, a thrift store of sorts. It is actually a free store with everything one needs to set up a household from bedding to dishes, clothing to craft supplies. The campus is home to university students (home of Dallas International University), missionaries coming and going abroad, as well as retirees and they appreciate the price point and enjoy the treasure hunt at the Boutique. The Boutique also has a sewing room where volunteers do alterations. I ended up helping with sorting and organizing the fabric stash and craft supplies.

After a bit of sorting it looks more marketable.

Making order out of this chaos

Life settled into a comfortable routine of living in our trailer in the RV park on the ILC campus. We met some of our camper neighbours, attended some of the campus events, and went exploring and shopping in Dallas. Driving the big freeways was always an exhausting experience. Thankfully, we could get to some local shopping areas without too much stressful driving.