brewing about...
1. is there any special reason that you should wait until a teapot whistles before you use it for your tea, or is it just fine for you to pour it once you know it to be hot?
2. 24 hour theatre worked: we produced four performances of plays (some ambitious, some deep, some fun...) and produced about fifty zombies for the next several days. I've tripped (seriously) and fallen twice and that's when I'm not just sitting, staring and drooling....
3. LOVED the comments after my vocation post. I couldn't agree more with many of them, and appreciate deeply the affirmations...
4. I've been thinking about some comments that "anonymous" (ahh the rich complexity of discourse in the pomo age) left on my blog a few weeks ago. A's argument seemed to be, to me, that liberals want to look like they care. this in response to a post where i confessed that i *didn't* care as much as i wish i could about tragedies around the world. But i didn't say that i wished that i could *look like* i care -- i said I wished i could care. so i've been listening to political discourse with that grid recently and feel like this may be a trope of conservative discourse. That liberals hold their positions not because they believe in them, but because they want to look like they believe in them. It doesn't seem like a helpful claim to make in terms of democratic practice. But I don't want to say that mischarecterization is primarily a problem of the right wing. Disaparaging discourse seems to be MORE of what people know how to talk about than issues. And liberals just as much conservatives are to blame. how to change...?
5. i've also been continuing to think about the testimonial -- both as a genre of discourse and as *the* definitive sociological marker of evangelicalism. until the other day i was feeling bitter about the way that evangelicalism-as-a-culture makes everything into a "testimony" -- in many cases before anyone's had a chance to recover from pain or problems or tragedy or grief or flaws -- the comic frame of "testimony" turns the lemons into lemonade... But I also realized (partly thanks to Jay Case) that the testimony is a site of great empowerment for the individual without power. It is the embodiement of personal narrative as transformative resource. Those who put faith in the testimony -- ultimately put faith in the possibility of personal experience and narrative expression as vital hermeneutic...(despite, maybe, some of the difficult theoretical consequences that creates for more conservative theologians)
6. and i'm thinking all the time about how wonderful and difficult parenting is. Living in the fact that your child(ren) will. must.do. experience pain is....sometimes....unbearable.
7. finally, i'm feeling: (see the last post) tired. i'm going to bed...
peace~
2. 24 hour theatre worked: we produced four performances of plays (some ambitious, some deep, some fun...) and produced about fifty zombies for the next several days. I've tripped (seriously) and fallen twice and that's when I'm not just sitting, staring and drooling....
3. LOVED the comments after my vocation post. I couldn't agree more with many of them, and appreciate deeply the affirmations...
4. I've been thinking about some comments that "anonymous" (ahh the rich complexity of discourse in the pomo age) left on my blog a few weeks ago. A's argument seemed to be, to me, that liberals want to look like they care. this in response to a post where i confessed that i *didn't* care as much as i wish i could about tragedies around the world. But i didn't say that i wished that i could *look like* i care -- i said I wished i could care. so i've been listening to political discourse with that grid recently and feel like this may be a trope of conservative discourse. That liberals hold their positions not because they believe in them, but because they want to look like they believe in them. It doesn't seem like a helpful claim to make in terms of democratic practice. But I don't want to say that mischarecterization is primarily a problem of the right wing. Disaparaging discourse seems to be MORE of what people know how to talk about than issues. And liberals just as much conservatives are to blame. how to change...?
5. i've also been continuing to think about the testimonial -- both as a genre of discourse and as *the* definitive sociological marker of evangelicalism. until the other day i was feeling bitter about the way that evangelicalism-as-a-culture makes everything into a "testimony" -- in many cases before anyone's had a chance to recover from pain or problems or tragedy or grief or flaws -- the comic frame of "testimony" turns the lemons into lemonade... But I also realized (partly thanks to Jay Case) that the testimony is a site of great empowerment for the individual without power. It is the embodiement of personal narrative as transformative resource. Those who put faith in the testimony -- ultimately put faith in the possibility of personal experience and narrative expression as vital hermeneutic...(despite, maybe, some of the difficult theoretical consequences that creates for more conservative theologians)
6. and i'm thinking all the time about how wonderful and difficult parenting is. Living in the fact that your child(ren) will. must.do. experience pain is....sometimes....unbearable.
7. finally, i'm feeling: (see the last post) tired. i'm going to bed...
peace~
posted by Redbaerd at 9:26 PM
1 Comments:
Re: #2
Define hot; more than warm? scalding? almost boiling?
actually boiling but not enough pressure built up to whistle yet? If it's not boiling, you're going to end up with very hot tea-flavored water (kind of like coffee+sugar=coffee-flavored beverage). But if that's okay with you, than you're all set.
"Unless the water boiling be,
vain the attempt to make the tea."
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