I read last week a moving book and I want to tell you about it. The Road is a love story, parental love, father-son. The world is dead, everything is ash, gray black. Nothing is living, except humans, mostly evil and an occasional dog or rat. The father and the son exist by foraging for cans of fruit in deserted houses. Very bleak, and I couldn't put it down.
At some point as I read, I remembered a seminar Patte had taken me to that lasted 2 days about the historical Jesus. The mission of a hodgepodge of theologians was to find the words and phrases Jesus had actually spoken through linguist technology.( Mary Jean says Thomas Jefferson did this too without computer help) The list is short. One lecturer's belief was that Jesus was lighthearted, and full of wonder at the gifts God had given--that what Jesus meant with " the Kingdom of God is at hand"is that Eden is right here , right now.
And that is what this book so clearly showed me. I loved it. Thought it life affirming-- easy, poetic, full of terrible beauty.
It won the Pulitzer in 07.
Monday, October 26, 2009
Sunday, October 25, 2009
Merimbula
the weekend before the picnic races in Lockhart we were in merimbula on the coast. We had a lovely time, stevie took me to beach after beach.
picnic races #3
these people are on the race track to be judged on their outfits. next year Stevie and I might try to enter!!!! We will color coordinate and add feathers, of course!
Picnic Races.
I am so sorry. It takes discipline to do a blog. goodness I can find all sorts of reasons not to sit down and write--main excuse has been my difficulty in down loading the pictures.
We had such fun this past weekend at the picnic races in Lockhart. All the women dress up in hats and high heels.Groups bring tents and champagne. Betting is done with individual bookies, standing in front of hand written horse lists. After the 3rd race, the best dressed of three groups: couples, ladies, and young girls, were judged and given gifts--then the horses came back!
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