Saturday, February 28, 2009
Biblical Travels and Humor
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Sunday, February 22, 2009
An International Street
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Sesame Street Unpaved
My favorite book about Sesame Street. Interesting trivia, great pictures. Out of print (1999) but still at many local libraries!
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Street Gang: The Complete History of Sesame Street
by Michael Davis
As most of you know, I am a Sesame Street NUT. This book was rather complicated, with much information, but for a true fan it was all interesting. We have much to be thankful for in the Children's Television Workshop. How nice it has been to revisit this programming with my daughter. Skim the details, but read the book!
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Saturday, February 21, 2009
I See You Everywhere
by Julia Glass
I picked this novel up becuase of its complex family relationships. It was above average - satrted off very well, but I found I did not care about the lives of the main characters (2 sisters) very much as I worked through the text. Perhaps a good beach book - if only it was beach weather!
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Friday, February 20, 2009
Why Facebook is For Old Fogies
from TIME magazine..
9. We don't understand Twitter. Literally. It makes no sense to us.
10. We're not cool, and we don't care. There was a time when it was cool to be on Facebook. That time has passed. Facebook now has 150 million members, and its fastest-growing demographic is 30 and up. At this point, it's way cooler not to be on Facebook. We've ruined it for good, just like we ruined Twilight and skateboarding. So git! And while you're at it, you damn kids better get off our lawn too.
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Humor of the day
Ben & Jerry created "Yes Pecan!" ice cream flavor for Obama. They
then asked people to fill in the blank to the following:
For George W. Bush, we should create "_________".
Here are some of their favorite responses:
1. Grape Depression
2. Abu Grape
3. Cluster Fudge
4. Nut'n Accomplished
5. Iraqi Road
6. Chock 'n Awe
7. WireTapioca
8. Impeach Cobbler
9. Guantanmallow
10. imPeachmint
11. Good Riddance You Lousy M*f**ker... Swirl
12. Heck of a Job, Brownie!
13. Neocon Politan
14. RockyRoad to Fascism
15. The Reese's-cession
16. Cookie D'oh!
17.The Housing Crunch
18. Nougalar Proliferation
19. Death by Chocolate... and Torture
20. Credit Crunch
21. Country Pumpkin
22. Chunky Monkey in Chief
23. George Bush Doesn't Care About Dark Chocolate
24. WM Delicious
25. Chocolate Chimp
26. Bloody Sundae
27. Caramel Preemptive Stripe
28. I broke the law and am responsible for the deaths of
thousands...with nuts
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Wednesday, February 18, 2009
Daughters of Light: Quaker Women Preaching and Prophesying in the Colonies and Abroad, 1700-1775
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Choices
"if i can't do
what i want to do
then my job is to not
do what i don't want
to do
"it's not the same thing
but it's the best i can
do
"if i can't have
what i want then
my job is to want
what i've got
and be satisfied
that at least there
is something more
to want
"since i can't go
where i need
to go then i must go
where the signs point
though always understanding
parallel movement
isn't lateral
"when i can't express
what i really feel
i practice feeling
what i can express
and none of it is equal
i know
but that's why mankind
alone among the animals
learns to cry"
-Nikki Giovanni
This is from a great interview with Bil Moyers - transcript/video here.
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Sunday, February 15, 2009
PINK. cuz women dig PINK.
from Amazon: "I have the paperback version. This is a very nice one year devotional Bible for women. It is very portable yet still easy on the eyes. Also, the print is in pink which is somewhat unique for any Bible which makes the reading more fun. NIV readers may be disappointed as this is the NLT version though I personally enjoy both. It also contains the common "verse finder" typical of most one year Bibles. Keep in mind this is not a study Bible, and therefore, does not explain the difficult verses. This is purely a one-year devotional Bible geared specifically for women. Enjoy! "
Oh my. I am not sure if "specifically geared towards women" means merely PINK, or something else. You know I am dying to get a look at this.
I was searching in regards to a conversation at meeting, on how the bible is so inaccessible and confusing to so many people. Myself included, although I have had the advantage of a GREAT "bible as lit." class at UMASS.
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Museum of African Art - Portland
We're hoping to get here in the next few weeks. I met a fascinating man last week - Oscar Mokeme, a Nigerian priest. He presented his masks and his culture at the Newburyport Public library, as a CHIME presentation. He is a very spiritual man, he had a gentle way about him that happened to calm me greatly after a week of great consternation and fear.
He offered blessings to us all, but perhaps just his presence alone was enough for me that evening. I hope we can soon get to his museum, and see the masks and him again!
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Uncertainty
“We are what we think. All that we are arises with our thoughts. With our thoughts we make the world.” The Dhammapada
Week 3: What is the image of my anger?
Week 2: What are the dead things I carry?
Week 1: Why and how do I embrace uncertainty?
LOL I do NOT embrace uncertainty. EVER. And perhaps a little step in that direction might be healthy for me. Uncertainty is often a precursor to change. Great change. Necessary change.
How many times in my life have I tried to "fix" everything, only to find the "fixed" thing was still not a path I should have ever been on in the first place?
"Does this path have heart?" - Casteneda.
Not sure yet of the details. Uncertainty. Indeed.
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Friday, February 06, 2009
Six Minutes Against Torture
Brought to you by the New York Yearly Meeting of Quakers. Somehow I find this much more powerful when read in the voices of the yearly meeting members.
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music lessons
It was time for a revisit to Sarah Vowell today.
How music touches us all!
http://www.thisamericanlife.org/favorites.aspx
Scroll down to "music lessons" - Sarah is about 21:00 minutes into the hour.
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havin' a jubilee
In the book of Leviticus, there's a prescribed "rest period" after 50 years of toiling:
"...[Y]ou shall have the trumpet sounded throughout all your land. And you shall hallow the fiftieth year and you shall proclaim liberty throughout the land to all its inhabitants. It shall be a jubilee for you: you shall return, every one of you, to your property and every one of you to your family. That fiftieth year shall be a jubilee for you: you shall not sow, or reap the aftergrowth, or harvest the unpruned vines. For it is a jubilee; it shall be holy to you: you shall eat only what the field itself produces." Leviticus 25:9-12 NRSV
Regardless of your religious views on the bible and its messages, or who they came from or whatever - this is a pretty good lesson. The land needs a rest to become productive again. So do we.
I mention this after a very long day of trials and tribulations re: my own work situations. I've been struggling to make a home for myself in a job that might not be right for me. I began the employment as a way to reconnect with my teaching nature - and I have worked with some incredible people in the past few years. One by one, they have begun to leave. I am still in the "hanging on" mindset - preferring to suck the last bit of marrow from the drying-up bones of this job. There ain't much left. Perhaps moving on should be done when the time is right, and perhaps that's not when one is kicked so forcefully out the door?
Buddah would say get rid of the attachment, and the problem is solves itself.
I have an invitation to an all-New England Friends yearly meeting gathering in April sitting in my inbox. A Quaker hoopla of reflection. Popped into my box in a timely divine fashion. Perhaps it will be a good kick-off to my own "jubilee"?
Here's an excerpt from the meeting notes:
Jubilee is, then, a kind of laying-down of everything in order to be reconnected with the divine. It is a
kind of new beginning, to let go of old structures, old business where there may not be life, and be ready
with hands as empty as possible to receive what God is asking of us.
I pray, as part of our work together we will ask each other, what is the Spirit asking of me/us? Is the
Spirit asking me/us to move forward on this or is this a piece of work that I/we can lay aside for a time to
attend to that still small voice, the sole authentic authority for movement?
And the second part of this process is to hold ourselves accountable for acting on what insight, perhaps
vision, we are given. In order to do that, we need to be concrete and specific in naming not only what we
are called to but what we are currently doing.
Name what I am currently doing.... hhhmmm......spinning my wheels? Trying to accomidate a calling that is not a good fit? I am usually very articulate, and yet in this moment I am at a true loss for words.
So there we are. Perhaps I am not in crisis after all - I am in "jubilee". Sounds almost exciting and party-like!
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Wednesday, February 04, 2009
Talent is Overrated
Very similar (eerily so?) to Gladwell's Outliers in many ways. But a good book - references the K Anders Ericcson studies regarding practice habits/success of musicians. I must say, as someone who personally has always just relied on elbow grease, these books speak to me despite their self-helpy "you can fix your life too!" attitude. An interesting read, but I might read the Gladwell first, especially for the real-life examples.
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Listening To The Light
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The Wordy Shipmates
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