Sweet Magnolias

I woke up and walked over to the guest services center for breakfast at the hotel here in Charlotte for my D.Min. residency. As I walked I smelled a scent I had not smelled for a while--magnolia! It smells great and reminds me that I'm in the South--though we didn't have many Magnolia trees in Kentucky. I'm going to leave an hour early for class today even though mapquest says it's only 15 minutes. I don't want a repeat of the two hours late that happened last year in Boston.