dirty, dirty pandora
Oh, oh, oh no….I have discovered Pandora. It is a website devoted to addicts like myself, those who submerge themselves in their addictions audibly – we the music junkies. It is wonderful, my work computer hums really, really loud when I play cds and when I rip them to my hard drive, I can only store so many because they eat up so much space…this is wonderful for someone on a network…I am in love with this website! I love the people who created the Genome Project.
It is cloudy and rainy and it would have been a perfect day to stay in bed, curled up with a book. But alas, I am at work. I finally finished “Seven Types of Ambiguity” and have my book discussion group tonight. I hope that some folks have read it because I would like to discuss it – I finished the book feeling uncomfortable with the way it ended, I am curious if others felt the same way. Next month’s book is “Zorro”, a newly written story of the famous hero. It doesn’t look very interesting to me, but, that’s what reading groups are about – getting you out of your comfort zone to pick up a new book here and there. My mom did buy me Anne Lamott’s "Plan B: Further Thoughts on Faith" and I am anxious to start that one…I am so glad that we are back to reading more at our house.
I think that the fact that we weren’t reading so much was because of our (ok, maybe just my) complacency. We became complacent and lazy. I have been struggling with that a lot lately, I am tired of people doing everything half-assed. I am frustrated that it takes so much prodding and poking to get people energized and excited, to get them to care. We have all of these little things wrong with our house (that the church owns) and the church and no one is in any rush to get any of them done. I feel like some days our house could fall down on us and no one would blink an eye. There are people in our church who keep talking about joining and want to talk to my husband. Every time he makes an opportunity to go to their house they have so many other things to do like take the motorcycle out for a ride – last night he finally said, if it isn’t a priority for them, I can’t make it. So, I think he is done trying to force a time with them. But people are so uninterested, not just in church, but in life in general and I can not understand it. To be in the midst of life is the most exhilarating place to be.
Tomorrow night we head out to see Dar Williams in St. Louis with friends, should be an enjoyable evening.
listening: to my new radio station on pandora, now playing “haunting” by the pogues
reading: almost done with “bee season”
It is cloudy and rainy and it would have been a perfect day to stay in bed, curled up with a book. But alas, I am at work. I finally finished “Seven Types of Ambiguity” and have my book discussion group tonight. I hope that some folks have read it because I would like to discuss it – I finished the book feeling uncomfortable with the way it ended, I am curious if others felt the same way. Next month’s book is “Zorro”, a newly written story of the famous hero. It doesn’t look very interesting to me, but, that’s what reading groups are about – getting you out of your comfort zone to pick up a new book here and there. My mom did buy me Anne Lamott’s "Plan B: Further Thoughts on Faith" and I am anxious to start that one…I am so glad that we are back to reading more at our house.
I think that the fact that we weren’t reading so much was because of our (ok, maybe just my) complacency. We became complacent and lazy. I have been struggling with that a lot lately, I am tired of people doing everything half-assed. I am frustrated that it takes so much prodding and poking to get people energized and excited, to get them to care. We have all of these little things wrong with our house (that the church owns) and the church and no one is in any rush to get any of them done. I feel like some days our house could fall down on us and no one would blink an eye. There are people in our church who keep talking about joining and want to talk to my husband. Every time he makes an opportunity to go to their house they have so many other things to do like take the motorcycle out for a ride – last night he finally said, if it isn’t a priority for them, I can’t make it. So, I think he is done trying to force a time with them. But people are so uninterested, not just in church, but in life in general and I can not understand it. To be in the midst of life is the most exhilarating place to be.
Tomorrow night we head out to see Dar Williams in St. Louis with friends, should be an enjoyable evening.
listening: to my new radio station on pandora, now playing “haunting” by the pogues
reading: almost done with “bee season”
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We have decided on the last weekend in April, if there is any time Friday night through Monday morning that works for you guys.
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Anonymous, at 4:29 PM, April 06, 2006
I think people get so hung up on the "fringe" things of life, they miss life itself. They are too busy aquiring, taking care, complaining about things that they forget that life, itself, is the most important thing they can have and experience. When you take waking up every morning for granted (which almost everyone does and why not?) then you don't realize the gift of a new day. When that gift gets threatened to be taken away, you look at with a new heart and eyes. Unfortunately that is what most people usually need to happen to them - been there, done that.
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Anonymous, at 3:35 PM, April 09, 2006
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