--Being surprised about the weather is sort of a thing of the past, isn't it? Because of the pervasiveness of the forecast (phones, etc.)? Don't you kind of miss waking up to a totally unexpected snowfall?
--Having kids often just gives me an excuse to do the things I would have wanted to do anyway, e.g., keep to myself at parties, leave meetings early, keep refilling my plate at the dessert table, etc.
--I read about a baseball player whose kids' initials spell out his last name ("Barajas," I believe it was---I'm sure you read it on Laura's post, Melissa!) and became nostalgic for the days when our kids' initials spelled "ASM." "SAM," I mean. My determined brain has spent an inordinate amount (unauthorized by my consciousness, I might add---who's in charge here, anyway?) of time trying to see what all of us could spell now.
- Damms SJ (an independent South Jordan engineering company, specializing in dams, of course)
- Ms. Dajsm
- Ms. Jadsm
- Sad jmms (the jams are sad because they were spelled "jmms")
- Jams MDs (What it does when I take all 5 children in for a checkup)
- Ms. Sam, JD (I really ought to get a law degree)
- Or, if we are creative with our directionality, perhaps a message to the Social Security Administration: "WWJD, SSA?"
--I really hate the way most people sing the National Anthem. Not YOU---I mean, not you normal audience singers, but the "soloists." I also hate the way people clap and whistle when they hit their (inaccurate, unjustified) high notes.
--Niels Bohr said, "The opposite of a correct statement is a false statement. But the opposite of a profound truth may well be another profound truth." What do you think of that? I think it applies to much of the seeming "paradox" in the gospel. (Sam and I always look for paradox when preparing to teach something---as we were taught by my uncle and my dad, both physicists---so we have considered this often.) Justice and mercy, to take the most obvious example. I also think that someday these apparent contradictions will become clearly compatible, not contradictory at all, under the light of our greater understanding.
