To write is to be in conversation with yourself, to preserve a state of being so you can conclude a sequence of thinking and feeling. The enemy to this process is intrusion. Children, in all of their beauty and wildness and strange genius, are, in the way of a meteorite, an intrusion. — Claudia Dey, […]
Do not telephone another home before 10am. . Do not knock on the door before 10am either. Their parents are still sleeping. . If you see someone out playing in the street — or in their front yard — before 10am, you may go play (after you tell your parent that’s what you’re doing). . […]
The sky is a brilliant slate blue after a thunder-stormy night. Propofol is an interesting anesthetic, in that it wears off quickly (for me, very quickly) except in the ways that it doesn’t. No legal or financial decisions today! I have been pretty sure My Sweetie fed me a diet chock-full of Real Food, and […]
EnneaThought® for the Day Type Five EnneaThought® for December 21st Today, do the opposite of your ordinary personality pattern. As a Five, leap unprepared into something and see what happens. (Personality Types, 173) Does it count if, instead, I slide sideways through my mostly unstructured day, playing Matchington Mansion over multiple sets of five lives? […]
King of Kings, Most Holy One God the son, eternal one You are my God and helpless son High ruler of mankind Alleluia… —”Christ Child’s Lullaby (Tàladh Chriosda), ” as sung by Kathy Mattea It’s Day Four: After Finals. I (we!) have retrieved a child, traipsed to the hinterlands for the right kind of biscuit […]
With a mere hour and a half to spare, I handed in my last final this afternoon. In my giddiness, I added six possible activities for the few hours before My Sweetie arrives. ** I just looked up after half an hour of joking with my friends via Facebook to notice that the fresh pitcher […]
…24 hours from now I’ll get to pack up my ancient Hebrew learning materials. That’s worth something at this point. In February, I’ll be studying Isaiah from the Masoretic Hebrew. With a lexicon by my side! Much more my cuppa than squeezing my brain to regurgitate. I’ll likely be slow as the dickens (Great Expectations […]
I’m liking my writing streak. It’s helping me feel like a people, and giving me a small smile to rely on when, for example, I instead rip through the first chapter of theologian H. Richard Niebuhr’s Christ and Culture in order to set my mind right for an exam question. (I likely could’ve gotten by […]
This is in response to an exam prompt. Usually I wait until after my exam’s been returned to me before posting; however, this is so excruciatingly particular that I’m going to release it before I even hand it in. In deference to my professor, however, you’re going to have to guess the prompt! As a […]
This was always a worry about the American experiment in capitalist liberal democracy. The pace of change, the ethos of individualism, the relentless dehumanization that capitalism abets, the constant moving and disruption, combined with a relatively small government and the absence of official religion, risked the construction of an overly atomized society, where everyone has […]
