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Below are the 20 most recent journal entries recorded in
amaebi's LiveJournal:
| Monday, July 20th, 2009 | |
| 7:41 pm | |
| 6:39 pm | Poems about letting go These are two of three projected. Still having the third form up enough to draft. These are of course drafts. ( Betty ) ( Gus ) |
| Saturday, July 18th, 2009 | |
| 7:02 pm | The Chun man and theology Available in a new entry at http://thomaschunwoo.livejournal.co |
| Saturday, July 11th, 2009 | |
| 8:53 am | |
| Friday, July 10th, 2009 | |
| 11:14 am | |
| 9:40 am | Personal movies This morning I read an interesting, insightful post by a friend, in which sie discussed suddenly reaizing that perhaps sie wasn't so much One Who Breaks Relationships, as One Who Stays in Bad RElationships Too Long. This reminded me of some of my own think. About how some people don't, maybe can't, do relationship, but instead assign people roles in their personal movies. And of course those are their movies, so one tends to be a Walking Gentleperson, or a Sidekick, or a Betrayer, or an Idol (always shortly to shatter), and so on. If the role's congenial enough and the moviemaker is entertaining enough, it may be a comfortable enough may to go on, for a part of own's life. But even then, one's bound to violate the implicit scripts. I remember realizing that this kind of casting was going on in some situations that I was thinking of and approaching as relationships. Though I didn't realize it as clearly as that at the time. Even the realization I did, though, spared me so much confusion about whether I had, indeed, been as wicked and inhuman as I was said to be. (I was trying to understand that I had been, but after some time I couldn't, and then my ability to act as if I agreed to that wore out, too. And then the ability to endure until, as I would now say, the script changed....) *If you're thinking of Alexei Panshin's Rite of Passage or Tom Stoppard's Rosenkrantz and Guildenstern, yeah. I'm trying to think of other literature that clarifies this sort of thing, and failing-- though I've also never read or seen Pirandello's Six Characters in Search of an Author. |
| Tuesday, July 7th, 2009 | |
| 6:19 pm | Presbyterian and musical query For those who are culturally Presbyterian or church musicians with Presbyterian experience: What would you name as core hymns in Presbyterian (Church-- USA) churches? the church I serve is affiliated with both PC-- USA and The UMC, and i'm going to do a Calvin celebration on Reformation Sunday, and a Wesley celebration the following (All Saints) Sunday. Wesleyan music is easy-- Charles's tunes! But i could use Presbyterian help. Many thanks in advance. |
| Wednesday, July 1st, 2009 | |
| 5:56 pm | Pleasure Today I went to Evergreen Interfaith, where I got to see three colleagues in a small meeting. Rabbi J. no longer finds me irritating. And D., a Presbyterian Church (USA) pastor I cried out to for help at my first Presbytery quarterly assembly last August, seems to be distinctly a friend now. I love it when someone I take to right away takes to me pretty fast. Much-needed refreshments. |
| 4:45 pm | Two ideas for activists seeing a legislator 1. Ask about a relevant point of the legislator's biography (which you have researched) and how it enlightens or moves her or him with respect to the issue you've speaking to. 2. Bring a small symbolic gift relevant to your issue. These revelations courtesy of this afternoon's visit to Rep. Mike Coffman on behalf of Bread for the World. |
| 10:10 am | Announcement I have just completed seven thank you notes and three phone calls, and I deserve a prize. |
| Tuesday, June 30th, 2009 | |
| 3:51 pm | Personal experience query: Spiritual dryness For any of you for whom that phrase resonates, can you describe the experience? How it contrast with spiritually wet times? (Just asking out of long-term curiosity.) |
| Wednesday, June 24th, 2009 | |
| 10:12 am | Another useful think from AC I'm happy enough when anyone else wants to work in personal-identity-space. I can understand what they're doing, and it's fine with me. Make me work in personal-identity-space (say, make me talk about my identity or advertise myself or discuss my faith development) and I'm Utterly Miserable and start itching. Here's how that's useful. When I'm trying to grasp people being uncomfortable with my work in and out of function space, I can and should remember that misery, and that comprehension is itself as form of work. |
| 5:59 am | Catching myself being all White Here's a useful think from Annual Conference: I've been saying for some years that using a membership basis rather than some participation basis for denominational (or other)churches is a sort of dodo, and the sooner it's gone, the better. True enough for White USians, in general. My successor in Rock Springs won an award for increasing the church's membership by 40% in less than a year. I knew he was way into membership from earlier conversation, but I didn't think about it a lot, one way or another. It looked, from the member-supporters who went up with him, as though he'd picked up perhaps all the local Tongans for the church, which makes sense. But here's the Useful Thing I realized: Yeah, membership's kind of a dead letter for White USians from somewhat older than I to young adults. But membership means something very different to USians of colour. It doesn't mean Fred and Barnie and the Elks. It doesn't mean submission to corporate demands. It means respect and ownership. |
| Tuesday, June 23rd, 2009 | |
| 3:09 pm | A couple of things about annual conference and ordination There are two aspects to ordination: (1) Squee! We're letting you into our sorority! Aren't you thrilled? Well, no, that bit makes me feel kind of sick. (2) A sacramental side. Okay, it's not a sacrament for us-- our only two sacraments are baptism and communion. But i still maintain that it's sacramental, at least in form and feel. Though I'm sorry for everyone who was involved in touching me as not only my tears but my nose flowed with True Emotion. The last sorority-hazing-style activity was being introduced to clergy session, where we were to make three-minute statements about our ministry paths or some such thing. Session was scheduled from 7:00 - 9:00 pm. Child care cut out at 8:00 pm. I therefore picked up the Chun man and took him to our sort-of-a-greenroom with me. And of course then looked as if I'd been spending the evening with a four-year-old. So my first words were, "My ministry to you tonight is to make you all feel well-dressed: I have a four-year-old." I was calm before I did my gig-- that is, until the alphabetical order was screwed up and I went in one person before I expected to-- but afterward I was kind of suicidal. Probably in part because I was immediately informed I'd run faintly over the three minutes. My lovely son ministered to me with hugs and kisses, though, and I am now much recovered. (The session was Thursday night.) This was the fourth annual conference I'd been to. I had to get up and have walkies a lot during all of the previous three. Aside from fleeing the Teaching Moments, I didn't have to get away from this one at all. There's a New Bish in town, and I like her. |
| Wednesday, June 17th, 2009 | |
| 5:13 am | Now I am nrealy ready to drive to Annual Conference; or, How yesterday went ( Things I knew I needed to get done yesterday. ) ( Extra bonus treats. ) Still to do: write article about incoming artists the Ginn Sisters and get them to the paper; drop off phone card for B. |
| Monday, June 15th, 2009 | |
| 1:05 pm | |
| Saturday, June 13th, 2009 | |
| 5:57 pm | Huh. More from S., and a query Have you missed the backstory? S. left a message on my phone this afternoon saying that she spent last night (alone) thinking about what I'd said, and had found that without a car she can't get to the grocery[and I suspect the landlord said he wouldn't rent to her]-- and she decided that she might should return to Texas, where her parents are prepared to help, though she doesn't get on that well with them. By rental car, for some unstated reason. Despite the story about her own [putative] vehicle being merely in impound in Empire. And despite bus tickets being Classic and enchangeable for cash. (This would be using the finds she lined up from First Baptist and St. Paul's RCC-- if I understand correctly she's hoping I'll be her broker, though I don't know why. So maybe she's changing her mind, and maybe she's got some Something Else in mind. She anticipates talking with me after tomorrow's services. I anticipate rushing away to a Rockies game after the second service.... I am thinking of putting a project entitled Mendicancy: Mercy and Methods: A Manual for Ministers on my to-be-written list.... |
| 5:47 am | Pastoral care stuff The way pastoral care is talked about is strange to me. Here's how my experiences do and don't match up. ( CPE, saviors, and shaking ) |
| Monday, June 8th, 2009 | |
| 4:10 pm | Proposed new game: Stupid confessions Want to play? Mine is: I feel responsible for my Hatchling pets on facebook. |
| 2:01 pm | Mawnish tawn-ah hell-eye-ah hawz-ay?* This UM conference irritates me There is a mandatory retreat for all ordainees next Wednesday evening starting at 9:00. With no childcare offered, what's more. Sheeyun will not yet be at Grand Junction, either. I have as yet no response to a prompt email I sent eleven days ago in response to the one advising us of this gladsome news. * This question by the youngest child opens a Seder: "Why is tonight different from every other night?" I say it when I'm talking about some tiresome phenomenon consistent with an organzation's or person's standard practice. |