“Artists and Theologians” is how we are entitling are seating arrangements for guests. Jay wrote concise info about each Artist or Theologian and then what item we are gifting people around the world. For example: Edward Hopper’s Mosquito Net or Andy Warhol’s HIV/AIDS Prevention (hee ho ha, how utterly appropriate). As he has been researching [...]
Entries from July 2009
July 22, 2009
Old Words Deconstructed, But Not Destroyed
I’m in my suburban home going through odds and ends. In light of my near future wedding, I found these words written around age 20. They are read and interpreted very differently after 6 years, but there is still something that appeals to my ache and current experience of deep, unrestrained love…and still hoping for more [...]
July 16, 2009
La Dee Da Tee Ha Bee Ba
Oh Chicago, tomorrow I come to you with much love and admiration, except for your frigid winters that make me a highly volatile woman. Other than wanting to hurt a kitten during the cold season, every other moment with you is true bliss–invoking a desire within me to save all animals, not just kittens, but [...]
July 15, 2009
Franny and Zooey
This book is edible and makes me seriously giddy. I chuckle and snicker by myself over the words spoken by both Franny, Zooey and their beloved, hovering, anxious mother. There are times when I pull the book up to my heart and delightfully sigh, “ah, gee wiz”.
JD Salinger is a marvelous writer. Even his book [...]
July 8, 2009
That Gal!
What do the characters Laura Ingalls Wilder, Wonapalei (or covertly known as Karana), and Leslie Burke all have in common?
ME!
I desperately, oh so desperately wanted to be each of them at certain junctures throughout my life as a kiddo. And, please come closer, a little more…when I express “desperately wanted” it is with such emphatic [...]
