Monday, April 22, 2013

Subcultures

32 days. That's all that stands between me and walking across a stage to receive my shiny new masters degree.

While I am greatly looking forward to being done with seminary schoolwork (I still have two lengthy papers to write), I will miss this cool place I've been living. I will miss the San Francisco Bay Area even though I am moving on to another neat adventure in a short time.

The Bay Area is fun. It's interesting. It's a subculture.

But it isn't the only subculture I've been living in. At the moment, I feel like I'm in a subculture within a subculture within a subculture within a subculture within a subculture. Let's see if I can unpack this for those of you who don't know this area.....

I am living in a seminary subculture here at GGBTS.
GGBTS is in the Marin subculture, which is a
subculture of the San Francisco Bay Area,
which is a subculture of California,
which is a subculture of the United States,
and the US is most certainly a subculture of the world.
(even though arguments can be made for the meshing/mashing/merging of cultures within the US because of immigration and travel.)

If I've lost you, I'm sorry. But this area is SO VERY different from anywhere else. (from anywhere else in the whole world.) If you haven't been here, you should come visit the Bay. It's pretty awesome. Be prepared to see different cultures, different views, different scenery, and different people. But enjoy it. See it for what it is.

Live your life, folks. Love God. Love People.