I'll Take That One, Please

Shoulder Buddy

While I was at work today, someone asked me to babysit. :)

It attaches with a magnet. Greatest invention ever.

Pigtails

Man, it's been a really rough semester. But something in me decided on Monday that it was going to be a good week, and even though the unpredictable craziness hasn't stopped, it's somehow been more than bearable. The past two days have been filled with some kind of genuine and fecund peace that has fidgeted its way in. Just thought I ought to take the time to recognize it and celebrate it.

There are a lot of big things for me to be thankful for right now. But I have found that the greatest thing about authentic thankfulness for big things is that it manifests itself in appreciative delight for exceedingly small things. And right now I am feeling thankful for pigtails & maple syrup & funny sounding words like "frumpy."

As it is the realest kind that comes from my heart, I like to think that simple glee is the language of gratitude that falls most sweetly on God's ears.

Now is the Time

Now is the time
Now is the time to know
That all that you do is sacred.
Now, why not consider
A lasting truce with yourself and God?
Now is the time to understand
That all your ideas of right and wrong
Were just a child’s training wheels
To be laid aside
When you can finally live
with veracity and love.
Now is the time for the world to know
That every thought and action is sacred.
That this is the time
For you to compute the impossibility
That there is anything
But Grace.
Now is the season to know
That everything you do
Is Sacred

Hafiz

McDonaldization

Yes, it's 15 pages. Yes it's disheartening. But it's also fascinating and enlightening and very much worth your time.

The Weberian Theory of Rationalization and the McDonaldization of Contemporary Society