I am grateful to Dr. Dean, and also to Dr. King; but I wish MLK's representation at his memorial did not look so stern.
This weekend at the hospital was not nearly as physically demanding as New Year's weekend, but I am awfully glad to have tomorrow off for rest and recovery. I am approaching the end of C.S. Forester's Payment Deferred, which is a dandy book. At the least it is one of the earliest inverted psychological crime thrillers. Commentary here: http://www.twbooks.co.uk/crimescene/csforesterme.html I will probably finish it and start on The Pursued tomorrow.
Interesting observation by Josh Marshall about the effect of the changing means of distributing news on the US primary election system: http://talkingpointsmemo.com/archives/2012/01/a_bit_more_evidence_to_consider.php?ref=fpblg
Morning, all! Alan, have you the results of your scans yet? I'm assuming good news, but want to hear from the horsies mouth, so to speak.
listener, response to you on last thread.
My first meeting was what I later learned to be a Gathered one. Which are nearly universally silent ones. I also later noticed how often the meeting would be Gathered when there was a new attendee: almost as if the community wished to support the newcomer.
Wind chill this morning is 12º! Puppy's still upstairs, and I'm going back up in a minute. Hopefully a tad warmer on the next rising! (this was written at a quarter to seven -- just forgot to post it before going back up -- it's now 18º)
I didn't know that meetings will often become more intentional about silence when a newcomer is present. I'm encouraged to hear that, puddle. Might have to give it a try yet...if only to gift the meeting with some silence. ;-)
Lol! I don't how much of it is conscious. Just that I have noted the coincidence. But a Gathered Meeting is a great deal more than silence. . . . (I've also noted how very seldom it happens in a popcorn meeting. . . . )
Kelly says it well, here: http://www.tractassociation.org/tracts/the-gathered-meeting/ Kelly is a writer, I love.
The most often Gathered Meeting I've ever attended was the Berkeley Meeting. Which was about half Buddhist. You could walk in, scattered and unhappy, and be grabbed up and tossed right into the lap of the Eternal in a twinkle. Not so much against your will, as over and against your ability to do it yourself at that moment in time. It was the actual beginning of a real life interest in Buddhism for me. Beyond my young *intellectual* interest. . . . (Zen Bones, One Hand Clapping, etc.) And prolly part of the reason it was so easy for me to see the effect of his Buddhist practice in Edwin. And which helped our meshing enormously.
I think Friends Meetings are very susceptible to being "captured" by activists because of their particular set of "testimonies" -- simplicity, peace, integrity, community, equality, and stewardship of the earth. And it fairness, that was a large part of my initial interest. That they turned out to be SO much more has only been joy to me.
This, about testimonies:
"Testimonies: Friends do not have a list of prohibitions or requirements that specify how they should behave in the world, but a long tradition of individual Friends' efforts to follow that Spirit which they encounter inwardly during worship as they conduct their outward lives has resulted in certain recognizable "themes" that continue to re-appear, in different ways, again and again among generations of Friends. These themes are called "testimonies" because they testify to the guidance of God as Friends have experienced it. There is no "official" list of testimonies, but a common acronym used in many Friends schools is SPICES: simplicity, peace, integrity, community, equality, and stewardship of the earth. " http://www.quakerinfo.org/resources/glossary
Yeah, Alan, I wondered about that. After all, his compassion might have been more suited to the concept being portrayed. The Black Power movement was the angry expression of the frustrations about racism, while King's approach was non-violent.
I happened to run across a reference to a newly farmed fish called cobia--then discovered it is what I know from my youth as ling cod, which has long been available in this area as caught fish. If you encounter it, it is good. Whitemeat fish, not too rich, firm if cooked slowly, flaky if fried hot and fast, good for sashimi and ceviche. Seems the US farms (there's a large one in Virginia) are inland, despite it being a salt water fish, and more environmentally benign than the SE asian cage farms in the ocean. We always caught it inshore and considered it a rockfish, but it is actually pelagic, which was a surprise to me.
Yes, a Gathering is greater than the sum of it's parts. The Peer Group meetings I attend have a Gathered Meeting foundation. We keep silence together before one person presents something they wish reflection on. Then we keep silence together some more before we offer first questions for clarification only, then silence, then reflections with silence between.
Ah yes, Thomas R. Kelly, author of Testament of Devotion, is one of my favourites!
…wistfully long to slip into that amazing Centre where the soul is at home with God. Be very faithful to that wistful longing. It is the Eternal Goodness calling you to return Home, to feed upon green pastures and walk beside still waters and live in the peace of the Shepherd's presence. It is the life beyond fevered strain.
Oh, yay! I do try to catch yesterday's thread in the morning. But some mornings when the computer's having a helluva time setting up/staying up/etc. I miss it. SO glad!
Don't know why I can't get the gravatar to change *here* -- it's changed at Gravatar, lol! For both addy's. Well, here's a make do.
Good day today. NO pain pills/meds of ANY kind. And that after a night of only acetaminophen! Did acetaminophen yesterday, during the day, also. And I'm *not* ignoring any pain. There just isn't any. And swallowing and keeping is going swimmingly, also.
AND. I added to the dog barrier under the porch. Very makeshift job, indeed. Done with wire instead of nails, but may hold till the boy can look into a more permanent fix.
Thanks Puddle. But I can't live in a vacuum. Just have to deal with it. I'm getting better. Used to be just about everything reminded me of him. Now only certain things...most things.
I'm not morbid, least I don't *think* it's morbid. I just miss my closest friend and dearest love.
puddle--As the old saying goes, "Beware the dog under his own front porch." Should that now become "Beware the dog getting under his own front porch?" [grin] Pain med report sounds good and the time sounds reasonable. Do you have to make any adaptations in how you eat (compared to what was normal in the good old days)?
I finished "Payment Deferred" today, and it is excellent. An inverted psychological crime story (the guilty party and how the crime was committed are known from the beginning), quite unlike anything earlier that I am aware of, that easily bears comparison with any such stories written in this century, I think. Now on to "The Pursued."
I got the Belle of Georgia peach planted [weather prediction for the day 52/27 deg F], and afterwards I looked down into the river bottom and saw what I at first took to be a small line of very large geese swimming toward a sand bar. Didn't quite seem right, though, so I had Miyoko bring the binoculars. It was the mule deer again!
This morning I was sitting in a chair and massaging my right leg, which has been giving me fits for about two months. I was able to trace the muscle that had tightened up; then I could find the name (sartorius muscle) from my old anatomy book; then I could look around on the Internet and find exercises to stretch it. This one REALLY does the trick (not that I could go all the way right away or even yet):
Alan, I'm still on a fairly soft diet, but experimenting. Will see. I accept that it's never going to be *fully normal* again, but if I get it back, mostly, I'll be happy.
Only being that needs to beware of getting under the porch is da dog who does it. Poor guy: he's always so dang GLAD when I rescue him, you'd think he'd figure out that going under is going to get him trapped. But that penny hasn't dropped yet.
BTW, I had a sample today of the sort of fake absinthe that is made by adding extracts of various herbs to alcohol rather than adding the herbs to alcohol and distilling it. The fake stuff is absolutely horrid; it makes me wonder if that is what hairspray tastes like!
Great description, lol! Sorry about the taste. Back during the 1973 oil embargo, I was in grad school, and only working part time -- as gas prices rose, the only place in our budget with any give was food. We went from grilled cheese sammiches made with real cheese, to Kraft processed cheese, to store brand processed cheese, and finally to an item called "imitation processed cheese" which, in the event, NO ONE would eat. Even the cat and dog wouldn't. I finally had to toss it. And we backed up to the store brand for the duration.
I am grateful to Dr. Dean, and also to Dr. King; but I wish MLK's representation at his memorial did not look so stern.
ReplyDeleteThis weekend at the hospital was not nearly as physically demanding as New Year's weekend, but I am awfully glad to have tomorrow off for rest and recovery. I am approaching the end of C.S. Forester's Payment Deferred, which is a dandy book. At the least it is one of the earliest inverted psychological crime thrillers. Commentary here:
http://www.twbooks.co.uk/crimescene/csforesterme.html
I will probably finish it and start on The Pursued tomorrow.
Interesting observation by Josh Marshall about the effect of the changing means of distributing news on the US primary election system:
http://talkingpointsmemo.com/archives/2012/01/a_bit_more_evidence_to_consider.php?ref=fpblg
Morning, all! Alan, have you the results of your scans yet? I'm assuming good news, but want to hear from the horsies mouth, so to speak.
ReplyDeletelistener, response to you on last thread.
My first meeting was what I later learned to be a Gathered one. Which are nearly universally silent ones. I also later noticed how often the meeting would be Gathered when there was a new attendee: almost as if the community wished to support the newcomer.
Wind chill this morning is 12º! Puppy's still upstairs, and I'm going back up in a minute. Hopefully a tad warmer on the next rising! (this was written at a quarter to seven -- just forgot to post it before going back up -- it's now 18º)
It's about 6 degrees here, but fortunately there's no wind at the moment. That's expected to pick up later providing gusts to 30mph.
ReplyDeleteRe: Gathered meeting:
ReplyDeleteI didn't know that meetings will often become more intentional about silence when a newcomer is present. I'm encouraged to hear that, puddle. Might have to give it a try yet...if only to gift the meeting with some silence. ;-)
Lol! I don't how much of it is conscious. Just that I have noted the coincidence. But a Gathered Meeting is a great deal more than silence. . . . (I've also noted how very seldom it happens in a popcorn meeting. . . . )
ReplyDeleteKelly says it well, here: http://www.tractassociation.org/tracts/the-gathered-meeting/ Kelly is a writer, I love.
The most often Gathered Meeting I've ever attended was the Berkeley Meeting. Which was about half Buddhist. You could walk in, scattered and unhappy, and be grabbed up and tossed right into the lap of the Eternal in a twinkle. Not so much against your will, as over and against your ability to do it yourself at that moment in time. It was the actual beginning of a real life interest in Buddhism for me. Beyond my young *intellectual* interest. . . . (Zen Bones, One Hand Clapping, etc.) And prolly part of the reason it was so easy for me to see the effect of his Buddhist practice in Edwin. And which helped our meshing enormously.
I think Friends Meetings are very susceptible to being "captured" by activists because of their particular set of "testimonies" -- simplicity, peace, integrity, community, equality, and stewardship of the earth. And it fairness, that was a large part of my initial interest. That they turned out to be SO much more has only been joy to me.
ReplyDeleteThis, about testimonies:
"Testimonies: Friends do not have a list of prohibitions or requirements that specify how they should behave in the world, but a long tradition of individual Friends' efforts to follow that Spirit which they encounter inwardly during worship as they conduct their outward lives has resulted in certain recognizable "themes" that continue to re-appear, in different ways, again and again among generations of Friends. These themes are called "testimonies" because they testify to the guidance of God as Friends have experienced it. There is no "official" list of testimonies, but a common acronym used in many Friends schools is SPICES: simplicity, peace, integrity, community, equality, and stewardship of the earth. "
http://www.quakerinfo.org/resources/glossary
Yeah, Alan, I wondered about that. After all, his compassion might have been more suited to the concept being portrayed. The Black Power movement was the angry expression of the frustrations about racism, while King's approach was non-violent.
ReplyDeleteCT scan just fine--report got lost on a previous thread, where I tend to report late because of the time difference.
ReplyDeleteI happened to run across a reference to a newly farmed fish called cobia--then discovered it is what I know from my youth as ling cod, which has long been available in this area as caught fish. If you encounter it, it is good. Whitemeat fish, not too rich, firm if cooked slowly, flaky if fried hot and fast, good for sashimi and ceviche. Seems the US farms (there's a large one in Virginia) are inland, despite it being a salt water fish, and more environmentally benign than the SE asian cage farms in the ocean. We always caught it inshore and considered it a rockfish, but it is actually pelagic, which was a surprise to me.
ReplyDeleteAll the better that it comes from within, then.
ReplyDeleteYes, a Gathering is greater than the sum of it's parts. The Peer Group meetings I attend have a Gathered Meeting foundation. We keep silence together before one person presents something they wish reflection on. Then we keep silence together some more before we offer first questions for clarification only, then silence, then reflections with silence between.
Ah yes, Thomas R. Kelly, author of Testament of Devotion, is one of my favourites!
…wistfully long to slip into that amazing Centre where the soul is at home with God. Be very faithful to that wistful longing. It is the Eternal Goodness calling you to return Home, to feed upon green pastures and walk beside still waters and live in the peace of the Shepherd's presence. It is the life beyond fevered strain.
Hi Guys,
ReplyDeleteSorry not to have been around this weekend. Can't seem to shake this tiredness.
Anyway, everybody please keep Sis, that is to say Honore, in your thoughts and prayers. she goes Wednesday for a mammogram and sonogram.
Oh, yay! I do try to catch yesterday's thread in the morning. But some mornings when the computer's having a helluva time setting up/staying up/etc. I miss it. SO glad!
ReplyDeleteGotta go away for a while. All this talk of Meeting reminds me of Phil and how terribly I miss him.
ReplyDeleteWill do.
ReplyDeleteAw, Cat. Sorry. ♥
ReplyDeleteThanks, Puddle.
ReplyDeleteDon't know why I can't get the gravatar to change *here* -- it's changed at Gravatar, lol! For both addy's. Well, here's a make do.
ReplyDeleteGood day today. NO pain pills/meds of ANY kind. And that after a night of only acetaminophen! Did acetaminophen yesterday, during the day, also. And I'm *not* ignoring any pain. There just isn't any. And swallowing and keeping is going swimmingly, also.
AND. I added to the dog barrier under the porch. Very makeshift job, indeed. Done with wire instead of nails, but may hold till the boy can look into a more permanent fix.
Thanks Puddle. But I can't live in a vacuum. Just have to deal with it. I'm getting better. Used to be just about everything reminded me of him. Now only certain things...most things.
ReplyDeleteI'm not morbid, least I don't *think* it's morbid. I just miss my closest friend and dearest love.
puddle--As the old saying goes, "Beware the dog under his own front porch." Should that now become "Beware the dog getting under his own front porch?" [grin] Pain med report sounds good and the time sounds reasonable. Do you have to make any adaptations in how you eat (compared to what was normal in the good old days)?
ReplyDeleteI finished "Payment Deferred" today, and it is excellent. An inverted psychological crime story (the guilty party and how the crime was committed are known from the beginning), quite unlike anything earlier that I am aware of, that easily bears comparison with any such stories written in this century, I think. Now on to "The Pursued."
I got the Belle of Georgia peach planted [weather prediction for the day 52/27 deg F], and afterwards I looked down into the river bottom and saw what I at first took to be a small line of very large geese swimming toward a sand bar. Didn't quite seem right, though, so I had Miyoko bring the binoculars. It was the mule deer again!
This morning I was sitting in a chair and massaging my right leg, which has been giving me fits for about two months. I was able to trace the muscle that had tightened up; then I could find the name (sartorius muscle) from my old anatomy book; then I could look around on the Internet and find exercises to stretch it. This one REALLY does the trick (not that I could go all the way right away or even yet):
http://www.michellemyhre.com/2010/12/pose-to-release-sartorius-muscle.html
Betcha inside of a week I will be cured.
TTFN
Alan, I'm still on a fairly soft diet, but experimenting. Will see. I accept that it's never going to be *fully normal* again, but if I get it back, mostly, I'll be happy.
ReplyDeleteOnly being that needs to beware of getting under the porch is da dog who does it. Poor guy: he's always so dang GLAD when I rescue him, you'd think he'd figure out that going under is going to get him trapped. But that penny hasn't dropped yet.
And ouchie on that pose! Hope it works!
ReplyDeleteBTW, I had a sample today of the sort of fake absinthe that is made by adding extracts of various herbs to alcohol rather than adding the herbs to alcohol and distilling it. The fake stuff is absolutely horrid; it makes me wonder if that is what hairspray tastes like!
ReplyDeleteGreat description, lol! Sorry about the taste. Back during the 1973 oil embargo, I was in grad school, and only working part time -- as gas prices rose, the only place in our budget with any give was food. We went from grilled cheese sammiches made with real cheese, to Kraft processed cheese, to store brand processed cheese, and finally to an item called "imitation processed cheese" which, in the event, NO ONE would eat. Even the cat and dog wouldn't. I finally had to toss it. And we backed up to the store brand for the duration.
ReplyDelete