I watched just the first few minutes of the movie Hoosier earlier tonight. The camera follows the car as Gene Hackman’s character drives down blacktopped roads through Indiana.
It looked so much like home to me that I was immediately riveted, and flooded with homesickness. I know those fields and intersections, I’ve driven past those ditches and barns. [...]
Archive for March, 2008
“I remember the first time I drove through Indiana…”
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged crushes, Ferris Wheels, growing up, prayer, Visions on March 26, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Green grey
Posted in Uncategorized on March 24, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Ahh: Spring. The garden quadrangle I usually enter daily, even briefly, has been shut down for a few months now; one of the spires that rise above it was in danger of falling. Just in time for Spring, it was reopened. I happened to walk through it, in a bit of a hurry, earlier this [...]
Black liberation theology
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged anger, Politics, Religion on March 24, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Check out Dwight Hopkins on CNN*, being interviewed on a panel about Black Liberation Theology. He was right on, but I really felt that the interviewer was clearly, clearly biased. When he read aloud from Trinity Church’s website, the tone of his voice when he said, “…black…” and “…Africa…” was clearly racist. He seemed angry, [...]
Blustery day; empty room
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged ghosts, New York on March 23, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Breathe
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged comfort, friends, travel on March 16, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Ahhhh: the soft air of Southern California.
I’ve been here for four days, visiting a dear friend and trying to finish my thesis (and escape from bedbugs). I was so excited to see the landscape of the entire country underneath the plane as we flew out here. First, gray mountains with snow and ice. Later, red [...]
Amazing map
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged Maps, the world, thesis on March 11, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
In the Inglehart-Welzel Cultural Map of the World, every country in the world is put on a simple grid, with two values as /x/ and /y/ axes. The two values relate to how traditional (religious) or secular the people of a nation are, and which value the nation regards (or needs to regard) more: survival [...]
3 micro-powers I wish I had
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged Superpowers on March 7, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
1. The ability to know what people are listening to on their iPods. I always want to know, but I can never see their screens.
2. To always have ten words at my disposal that I would never misspell. I have four common ones, that I use nearly daily, that I misspell each and every time [...]
My body
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged The body on March 6, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
I did yoga tonight. I forget my body parts! It’s like I’m a balloon head, wandering through the world on my string. I couldn’t initally remember where my collar bone was, or differentiate between my hip and my waist, and an arm or leg I wasn’t thinking about frequently floated out of form. Each time, one [...]
Perfectionism and procrastination
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged perfectionism, School, writing on March 5, 2008 | 1 Comment »
Why, oh why do I continue to procrastinate? I need to be writing, daily, on my thesis. I am full of ideas, I love my topic. Every time I sit to write, I find a half dozen things that need to be done. At this moment, I want to wash my dinner dishes and clear [...]
Montauk; engagement
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged community, Engaged, travel on March 4, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Two weeks ago, before bedbugs took over my attention, M. and I had an amazing trip to Montauk, New York. We took the Long Island Railroad all along Long Island; the closer we got, the more tantalizing glimpses of grey-blue water I saw on either side of the train.
We stayed at an amazing bed&breakfast, with [...]
