So tonight I went to my first Ash Wednesday service ever. Some people may wonder how this could possibly be the case. To them I say, visit a Southern Baptist church and you will begin to realize. We are really good at emptying bathwater, and especially good at the accompanying activity of baby-chucking.
Anyhow, for you all tonight on this Ash Wednesday, I present a multivarious fare of life lessons and observations from the past weeks.
1. I miss seeing news footage of Mardi Gras in Mobile, especially the mug shots.
2. This shouldn't make me laugh, but oh how it does!
3. Sir Joshua Reynolds, master British painter and President of the Royal Academy, writes the following: One advantage, I will venture to affirm, we shall have in our Academy, which no other nation can boast. We shall have nothing to unlearn. (Discourses on Art, Discourse 1) And that makes me smirk the wise, knowing smirk of one who knows something the speaker doesn't.
4. My favorite two commonplaces from week-before-last:
Swede: The [Lordship] quiz is so simple and my mind is just so complex!
Swede: The lordship quiz is like coming in here with all your armor on and ... well ...
Claire: You realize it's a sumo wrestling match.
5. Well, now, who'd have thought? The funniest thing is that you can hear the indignation in the cracking of their voice.
6. This may become the goriest action movie ever made.
7. I don't even believe this mess. For crying out loud.
8. You know you've been doing too much school work and too little sleeping when you start responding to people in Latin, only stopping when you realize that you don't know the word for narrative. This is, of course, a purely hypothetical situation.
9. I found this very interesting.
Gen. 3:7 (ESV) Then the eyes of both were opened, and they knew that they were naked. And they sewed fig leaves together and made themselves loincloths.
Matt. 21:18-22 (ESV) In the morning, as he was returning to the city, he became hungry. And seeing a fig tree by the wayside, he went to it and found nothing on it but only leaves. And he said to it, "May no fruit ever come from you again!" And the fig tree withered at once.
Matt. 25:41-46 (ESV) Then he will say to those on his left, 'Depart from me, you cursed, into the eternal fire prepared for the devil and his angels. For I was hungry and you gave me no food ... and these will go away into eternal punishment, but the righteous into eternal life."
10. I'm just glad that the little sidebar of followers now calls itself Google Friend Connect. Otherwise, who knows how I might try to connect with them.
11. Ladies and Gentlemen, I announce, with great trepidity and hopeful expectation, the appearance of an incredible blog. Behold the Jons.
12. A quick little free-verse I jotted down at some point during week-before-last's Disputatio. Not good but begins to get my point across:
sprinting with a leather bag
slosh-burned
two til and sprinting past waiting hatchbacks
a dollar lighter
but it's this heavy water
gives me wings.
Thank God for Americano Fridays.
I count down the days to #6...I want me some Nazi scalpin'!
ReplyDeleteWow number 6 was very interesting. Took me a moment to get the connection to the 3rd one. But yes, good eye. And thanks for the mention ;) Your blog is pretty amazing, I have to say.
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