Year in Review
It’s been a most eventful year. Not quite sure where to begin, but perhaps I’ll start with a few large obvious events. I got engaged. 73 days and counting til I marry my best friend. What has been one of the most difficult parts of the engagement you wonder? Registering. My second post of all time was a wobbling, slightly incoherent rant on epistemology and linguistics; a symptom of being immersed in Literary Theory no doubt. Lucky warned about the dangers of thinking too much, but I’m not crazy yet, at least not terminally. Indeed, the second biggest event of the last year was my Graduation. Ok, I really haven’t blogged that much about graduation, but it was good. Philosophy tassles are blue, and that’s reason enough to chose the...
Love’s As Warm As Tears
Love’s as warm as tears, Love is tears:Pressure within the brain,Tension at the throat,Deluge, weeks of rain,Haystacks afloat,Featureless seas betweenHedges, where once was green. Love’s as fierce as fire, Love is fire:All sorts–infernal heatClinkered with greed and pride,Lyric desire, sharp-sweet,Laughing, even when denied,And that empyreal flameWhence all loves came. Love’s as fresh as spring, Love is spring:Bird-song hung in the air,Cool smells in a wood,Whispering “Dare! Dare!”To sap, to blood,Telling “Ease, safety, rest,Are good; not best.” Love’s as hard as nails, Love is nails:Blunt, thick, hammered throughThe medial nerves of OneWho, having made us, knewThe...
Inexorably Onward
The last week has been incredibly packed with activity. Finals, apartment hunting, and preparation for my parents’ arrival, not to mention readying myself for graduation, have been the tasks at hand. Today was my first day in the real world (my last final was yesterday) and it was a successful day. Britt and I found a great place to stay (after a long and grueling search). And my entire family arrived from Kansas City. Three of my brothers are sprauled out trying to fall to sleep in the other room, and I suppose I should follow suit and try to get some shuteye of my own. Tomorrow will be another full day. By the way, this blog is only a few short days from its One Year Anniversary. I’m planning a “year in review.” Check out the archives and...
tigger too
My old hardy laptop (iBook G3) finally is on the fritz–just minor hardware problems (battery dead, ethernet port unstable, power cord frayed). So Britt and I went to the Apple store and came home with this (2 Ghz, Tiger, Superdrive). Now I have to do homework on it…
recalcitrance
This from a remarkable book I’m reading: “For grave dangers to the human spirit lurk in the subordination of the political system and the economic system to a single moral-cultural vision. Daily life is (as Christians believe) a contest with the world, the flesh, and the devil. An attempt to impose the Kingdom of God upon this contest is dangerous not only to human liberty but to Christianity itself (and to any other religion similarly tempted). For darkness and recalcitrance always demand their due and corrupt those who would replace them.” Michael Novak, The Spirit of Democratic Capitalism (New York: Simon and Schuster, 1982), 83.