It Gives Me Something to Write About
Haven't revisited my little black book since April, so humor me.
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There's a list of minor league baseball teams whose hats I liked and had considered purchasing. Doesn't look like I ever got around to any of the. For the record, I own three minor league hats: the Lansing Lugnuts, the Montgomery Biscuits and the Wilmington Blue Rocks.
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And then for some reason I get downright philosophical.
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There's a list of minor league baseball teams whose hats I liked and had considered purchasing. Doesn't look like I ever got around to any of the. For the record, I own three minor league hats: the Lansing Lugnuts, the Montgomery Biscuits and the Wilmington Blue Rocks.
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And then for some reason I get downright philosophical.
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Watching life happen to you is not living.
Insulating yourself from pain is not living (neither is pursuing it).
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Is it possible that a person's misconception of Jesus must be crucified for the real one to live?
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Laughable now, but that's what was going on at the time.
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Cameron recommended a couple books: Making Your Own Days, by Kenneth Koch, and Rose, How Did You Get So Red?, by your mom. Haven't read either.
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Then more recommendations. A car, (Honda Civic,) a record, (Radiohead's Kid A,) a Pinot Noir, (Gallo of Sonoma,) and a movie (Punchdrunk Love).
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And then:
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If the voice your'e hearing doesn't sound right, it's possible it's the wrong one.
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Well that's just brilliant, isn't it?
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Directions to somewhere.
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And then something I heard Murray Bodo say:
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"Life isn't worth living unless it's a metaphor for something else."
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I think he was quoting Keats.
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Drew & Denise'll be here soon, so I'm out.
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Happy 4th.
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No idea why my spacing is so balled up.
good to see you people today. we like you.
and, i didn't find your philosophy 'laughable,' just for the record;)
"Insulating yourself from pain is not living (neither is pursuing it)."
Would you mind throwing the last part of that quote around a bit more?
You explain it a little more (but not a lot more) somewhere -- either on this blog or in one of your things you don't call sermons.
No kidding? I'd wondered what all that was about.
It's from one of those things you don't call sermons on John 20, but I'm afraid you don't really explain it. It's part of a long list:
"But I can tell you that watching life happen to you is not living.
"That insulating yourself from pain is not living, and that pursuing it isn’t either.
"That enslaving yourself to self-destructive behavior isn’t living, and that neither is obsessing about your own behavior until you become the center of the universe.
"That allowing your past to force you to stagger through life in some sort of guilt hangover is not living.
"That letting your circumstances master you isn’t living, and that neither is denying that they’re real.
"That walling yourself up against the world around you isn’t living. That wishing we were all the same isn’t living.
"That using labels to avoid getting to know people is not living.
"That reducing the Living God and the Life he died to give us to a set of rules and outlines and behavioral codes isn’t living.
"That living can be incredibly painful, but that if you never hurt it‘s because you‘ve never loved and that‘s no Life at all."
Damn. Did I say all that?
And for the record, it was my trying to sound philosophical that struck me as laughable more than any given bit of "philosophy."
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