According to the magic book in the Sorcerer's Lair at California Adventure, my secret Disney identity is Jane from the movie Tarzan. I can deal with that. She's pretty cool for a girl who hangs out with gorillas and dates men wearing loincloths.
Tuesday, March 13, 2007
Me Jane
According to the magic book in the Sorcerer's Lair at California Adventure, my secret Disney identity is Jane from the movie Tarzan. I can deal with that. She's pretty cool for a girl who hangs out with gorillas and dates men wearing loincloths.
Monday, March 12, 2007
Chillin' at the GV!
On Saturday, we drove up to Santa Monica to go to the Getty Villa. It was my second time visiting. Even if we had seen nothing in the museum, it still would be have been an awesome day because we got to make these wreaths with myrtle and flowers. Check out the awesome headgear:
The Getty Villa is like taking a trip to Europe , and all you have to do is drive up the 405. I have seen more valuable and historically significant art in Europe, but going to the Villa is so great because it's like experiencing Roman life for yourself. Standing in the middle of a beautiful peristyle with musicians playing Egyptian instruments, I could totally imagine I was really living in the Roman Empire.
Greek vases rock! Check out my man Theseus killing the Minotaur (the half-man, half-bull) in the middle of the Labyrinth.
The Getty Villa is like taking a trip to Europe , and all you have to do is drive up the 405. I have seen more valuable and historically significant art in Europe, but going to the Villa is so great because it's like experiencing Roman life for yourself. Standing in the middle of a beautiful peristyle with musicians playing Egyptian instruments, I could totally imagine I was really living in the Roman Empire.
Greek vases rock! Check out my man Theseus killing the Minotaur (the half-man, half-bull) in the middle of the Labyrinth.
Saturday was so wonderful, combining two of my favorite things, museums and great friends.
Sunday, March 11, 2007
Friday, March 9, 2007
If Thou Could'st Empty All Thyself of Self-by Sir Thomas Browne
My last post reminded me of this poem, one of my favorites.
If thou could'st empty all thyself of self,
Like to a shell dishabited,
Then might He find thee on the ocean shelf,
And say, "This is not dead,"
And fill thee with Himself instead.
But thou are all replete with very thou
And hast such shrewd activity,
That when He comes He says, "This is enow
Unto itself - 'twere better let it be,
It is so small and full, there is no room for me."
If thou could'st empty all thyself of self,
Like to a shell dishabited,
Then might He find thee on the ocean shelf,
And say, "This is not dead,"
And fill thee with Himself instead.
But thou are all replete with very thou
And hast such shrewd activity,
That when He comes He says, "This is enow
Unto itself - 'twere better let it be,
It is so small and full, there is no room for me."
Paradox
Whoever saves his life will lose it, whoever loses his life will save it.
Perfect freedom lies in complete surrender.
The last shall be first, and the first shall be last.
I can only be wholly myself when I have lost all sense of self.
We are strongest when we have embraced our weakness.
Etc. (There lots of others.)
The Bible and the Christian faith contains so many examples of paradox, things which always give me food for thought and ideas to which I always seem to return. God seems to deal in these paradoxes. I think that although the pardoxes can be understood partially on an intellectual plane, they can never be understood completely because they reflect a deeper reality of the spiritual world, a reality in which we cannot participate while we are still tied to the physical one. I am sure that learned theologians have written more intelligently and interestingly about this, but I still thought I would share.
(BTW, I think the plural of paradox should be paradoxa, not paradoxes.)
Perfect freedom lies in complete surrender.
The last shall be first, and the first shall be last.
I can only be wholly myself when I have lost all sense of self.
We are strongest when we have embraced our weakness.
Etc. (There lots of others.)
The Bible and the Christian faith contains so many examples of paradox, things which always give me food for thought and ideas to which I always seem to return. God seems to deal in these paradoxes. I think that although the pardoxes can be understood partially on an intellectual plane, they can never be understood completely because they reflect a deeper reality of the spiritual world, a reality in which we cannot participate while we are still tied to the physical one. I am sure that learned theologians have written more intelligently and interestingly about this, but I still thought I would share.
(BTW, I think the plural of paradox should be paradoxa, not paradoxes.)
Wednesday, February 21, 2007
Tuesday, February 20, 2007
Try using these in casual conversation!
Some great new words from the book I was reading. If you really care, look the definitions up yourself. Some of them are not very nice!
neurasthenic
onanist
etiolated
pyorrhea
agitprop
scrofulous
neurasthenic
onanist
etiolated
pyorrhea
agitprop
scrofulous
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