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October 18, 2006
Sloths
Friends,
Many of you have asked me what a sloth is. Ask no more! Lookie! The last part gets me every time!
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October 16, 2006
Folk Dancing
Saturday I went to the market to find the perfect pumpkin. Not only had I found the perfect pumpkin-which I endearingly named Jill-O-Lantern (the stem had a curly vine that said “girl”)-but in a matter of minutes, I had been lavished with unexpected treats: two Lewis Carroll classics for $.50 (a woman was by peddling her life long library), free zucchini bread from a Harvest Bread Co., and chocolate from one of the supplying companies for the Bailey’s Chocolate Bar. I was just about on my way out when I noticed speakers and a microphone up on the little stage in the square. As my friend Nichole informed me last week, I am not known to leave an environment if I suspect singing or dancing. I dipped my hands in the shea butter displayed at one of the corner booths to give Jill a polish as I waited for the festivities. That's when I spied about 9 women in broom skirts and colorful sashes accompanying a guy in a strange polish hat. They all grabbing hands until they were positioned like a sting of paper-dolls. The older man in the cap nodded and beautiful Romanian music with accordions and lilting voices transformed the little market into a remote and rustic village in the hills of Eastern Europe. I knew it meant one thing…DANCING! How exciting! The first song they danced a traditional Romanian dance, the second Croatian, and by the time they were on to Lebanon I had been swooped up into the line hardly conscious of what country was being representing. We danced for about a half hour. So great! When they were done I found out that they offer a cheap folk dancing class Monday nights…only $2 a session! No experience required! So, for all of you that are just aching to dance, feel free to come (Laura and Claire?) It’s from 6:30-8:00 at the Heman Recreation Center (also know as Centennial Commons) Off of Olive between Midland and Pennsylvania Ave.
Honestly, I don’t think there is anything better than great dancing, and treats in the crisp of fall! Thank you God for your wonderful gifts!
P.S. As Jacob observed; although my pumpkin trip entailed searching for a pumpkin, buying a pumpkin, polishing a pumpkin…I am pumpkinless. In all the excitement I left Jill behind (How dispensationally apocalyptic). She was all shea-butter shiny so I don’t blame the person that snagged her.
Here's the heads-up on folk dance. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Folk_dance
http://www.folkdancing.org/
P.S. The picture is a pumpkin stem under a microscope. Neat!
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October 09, 2006
Medieval Personality Test
Friends, Tanya gave me this link that tells you what medieval personality best suits you. Try it! http://www.cmi-lmi.com/kingdomality.html
I was sure I would be a Jester, but I kept getting "Benevolent Ruler" Some attributes were nice: Idealist social dreamer, perceptive of woes of others, creatively persuasive...yah-dah...yah-dah....
Then WHAM...unrealistically sentimental, impulsive, and deviously manipulative! Gasp, gulp!
I don’t want to be a “Benevolent Ruler” I want to cleverly mock benevolent rulers, besides, I know that I would have made a MUCH better Jester. Off to console myself by listening to the Main Ingredient's '72 classic, "Everybody Plays the Fool".
Before I go, one of my favorite quotes about Jesters:
“We have all seen how an appropriate and well-timed joke can sometimes influence even grim tyrants. . . . The most violent tyrants put up with their clowns and fools, though these often made them the butt of open insults.”
Desiderius Erasmus, In Praise of Folly
[Quoted in B K Otto, Fools Are Everywhere]
P.S. The photo was from a website called www.mythinglinks.org. Can't vouch for their website, but I loved the picture!
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