“Solvitur Ambulando”– It is solved by walking, Avondale Presbyterian Church-Charlotte NC:
As noted by others, it is a beautiful morning!
… Birds like it cool, too!
Light/dark, sun/shade, warm/cool
I’m not a music person but I pulled up and listened to The Hills are Alive … On my walk out. 🙂
Peace be with … And also with y’all!
6.26.12
“Solvitur Ambulando” – It is solved by walking, Myers Park Baptist Church- Charlotte NC:
Shared this “sacred” space at MPBC with college roommate Ruth Ann Bode. Loved explaining it to/sharing it with her. Some people don’t get it … mostly men 😉 … but Rufus saw its beauty from the start! Instructions say walk barefoot … ouch … tiny acorns … tread lightly 🙂 Rosemerry — Thank you Debbie and Shakespeare for always making me remember Nancy Johnson everytime I see rosemerry! NB: I did not bring the dogs again … they definintely did not “get” it!
6.24.12
“Solvitur Ambulando” – It is solved by walking., Sardis Baptist Church- Charlotte NC, dog walk:
Nice walk … All the labyrinths are in need of “keepers”. I think everyone gets them spruced up for Lent … Then let’s them go in the heat.
Irony of the day … Brought the bassets to walk. 🙂 they hated it and bee-lined it back to the car!
Today’s devotionals –
It is important that we keep in touch with the source of our words. Our great temptation is to become “pleasers,” people who say the right words to please others but whose words have no roots in their interior lives. We have to keep making sure our words are rooted in our hearts. The best way to do that is in prayerful silence.
Daily Meditation: Words That Come From the Heart.
Franciscan John Duns Scotus says that when the one, and the true, and the good are operating in unity, whatever is happening will always also be beautiful! This is his de facto definition of beauty: the harmony between unity, truth, and goodness. When you can see all three, or even one, you will always be delighted. Whenever naked being (always united, somehow true, and somehow good) shows itself, I will have the ability to see there’s something beautiful about it, too, even though it might be broken, or poor, or sad, or suffering. Scotus was merely making a grounding philosophy out of Francis’ own love of lepers, the marginalized, and the poor—whom he found “beautiful”!
Beauty is experienced precisely in our ability to hold together the oneness, the truthfulness, and the goodness of things—despite all the seeming contrary evidence (which is always there!).
Adapted from a non-published talk at a conference in Assisi, Italy, May 2012
Prayer:“That all may be one” (John 17:21)
6.23.12
bucket list, NC Coast: I want to B&B at sea …
The rate is $300 a person for two nights, excluding transportation to the tower. Guests bring and cook their own meals. They shower in water collected in a cistern, sleep in rooms with ocean views (one of eight bedrooms has been repainted) and shoot pool on a billiards table in the rec room. No bugs, steady breezes, plenty of sun.
a capella, Dartmouth College, Rockapellas: Love this story … You go girls!
Then two enterprising freshmen, Debbie and Steph, decided they were going to start a singing group. If they started it themselves, they would have to be let in, right? And maybe they would take pity on me, in the same boat. I swallowed my wounded pride, and went and tried out. I got in. Mostly because it was midway through the semester and people were otherwise consumed with lots of extracurriculars already, so the auditions were pretty slim pickens.
We decided to call ourselves the Rockapellas. We also decided we weren’t going to be a fluffy, pretty singing group with a high vocal range that did all the current a capella standards—House at Pooh Corner and such. We would be multiracial, all different shapes and sizes, and we would do fun songs with a deep lower register (think Yaz) as well as songs with a social justice message (Sweet Honey in the Rock’s “Ella’s Song” was one of our first tunes).
We did skits in which we made fun of binge drinking, sexual assaulters and misogyny on Dartmouth’s campus. We invented a character, Fratman, embodied by my bestie Aisha Tyler, who is now an amazing stand up comic and talk show host without limits (it all started here).
We got snubbed by the other, more established singing groups, passed over time and time again for big group shows, but kept working hard and building our fan base and improving musically. And finally, grudgingly, they accepted us.
photography, literature, art: How do people think of this!
The photographs in this series, Fictitious Dishes, enter the lives of five fictional characters and depict meals from the novels The Catcher in the Rye, Oliver Twist, The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo, Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland, and Moby Dick
film, The 10th Kingdom: Years ago, one friend mentioned this mini series … I look for it every once in a while …anyone seen it?
Two centuries after Snow White and Cinderella had their adventures, the Nine Kingdoms ready themselves for the coronation of Prince Wendel, Snow White’s grandson, to the throne of the Fourth Kingdom. But an evil once-queen has freed herself from prison, and turns the prince into a golden retriever. Wendel, by means of a magic mirror, escapes into a hitherto-unknown Tenth Kingdom (modern day New York City) and meets Virginia (Kimberly Williams) and her father Tony (John Larroquette). Pursued by trolls, cops and a wolf in man’s form, the three blunder back into the Nine Kingdoms and begin their adventures to restore Wendel to his human form and throne, and find the magic mirror that will take Tony and Virginia back home.
Pretty Providence, blogs, interesting, cheapskates: I stumbled on this blog … Am a being really cheap to try it?
Universal, always-working Redbox promo codes:
DVDONME
BREAKROOM
REDBOX
via PRETTY PROVIDENCE.
economic history, graph: Very telling graph …
That headline is a big promise. But here it is: The economic history of the world going back to Year 1 showing the major powers’ share of world GDP, from a research letter written by Michael Cembalest, chairman of market and investment strategy at JP Morgan.
Jane Austen:
So,until the next wave of Austen TV/film remakes,we do have a good number of alternate Austen fare to fulfill our need for elegant entertainment. Not to mention the next season of Downton Abbey,which is just as inspiring despite not holding the distinction of being adapted from a book. Yet,that hardly diminishes the pleasure of any parody which charmingly combines both sides of that English pop culture coin:
via living read girl: Some merry modern romps with Jane Austen.
LeBron James, Nike, advertising: Out the next day … amazing!
As the Miami Heat celebrate as the 2012 NBA champions, Nike released this spot called, “Ring Maker” for LeBron James.
As usual the ad wizards over at Nike have produced another gem:
via LeBron James “Ring Maker” Nike commercial is out (Video) ~ That NBA Lottery Pick.
women, careers: Baby, check. Briefcase, check …
A magazine article by a former Obama administration official has blown up into an instant debate about a new conundrum of female success: women have greater status than ever before in human history, even outpacing men in education, yet the lineup at the top of most fields is still stubbornly male. Is that new gender gap caused by women who give up too easily, unsympathetic employers or just nature itself?The article in The Atlantic, by Anne-Marie Slaughter, a Princeton professor who recently left a job at the State Department, added to a renewed feminist conversation that is bringing fresh twists to bear on longstanding concerns about status, opportunity and family. Unlike earlier iterations, it is being led not by agitators who are out of power, but by elite women at the top of their fields, like the comedian Tina Fey, the Facebook executive Sheryl Sandberg and now Ms. Slaughter. In contrast to some earlier barrier-breakers from Gloria Steinem to Condoleezza Rice, these women have children, along with husbands who do as much child-rearing as they do, or more.
via Elite Women Put a New Spin on Work-Life Debate – NYTimes.com.
dorm life, dorm art, college, clichés: Guilty!
Well, we’ve surveyed the slightly younger generation, and apparently not much has changed as far as college dorm decorations are concerned. You’ve gotta be kidding. Well, alright. Let’s hit up some dorm rooms and delve into the (still) most cliched and popular posters and the art therein. Girls! Van Gogh! And other usual suspects! Which ones did you have? ‘Fess up.
Flavorwire & The Artists Behind Some of the Most Cliched Dorm Posters – StumbleUpon.
Almost as good as the weinermobile!
music memories, Soundhound, apps: Recently i noted that I now enjoy getting into the car and listening to my kids’ music, something that used to annoy me. So here’s what I heard. And thank you Soundhound.
Where Do You Go by Sister Hazel
Long-distance running, evolution, anthropology: Great article … Long-distance running and evolution: Why humans can outrun horses but can’t jump higher than cats. – Slate Magazine.
My daily meditation was from Henri Nouwen:
We continue to put ourselves down as less than Christ. Thus, we avoid the full honour as well as the full pain of the Christian life. But the Spirit that guided Jesus guides us. Paul says: “The Spirit himself joins with our spirit to bear witness that we are children of God. And if we are children, then we are heirs, heirs of God and joint-heirs with Christ” Romans 8:16-17.When we start living according to this truth, our lives will be radically transformed. We will not only come to know the full freedom of the children of God but also the full rejection of the world. It is understandable that we hesitate to claim the honor so as to avoid the pain. But, provided we are willing to share in Christs suffering, we also will share in his glory see Romans 8:17.
Labyrinth — at Myers Park Baptist Church.
Ray Bradbury, RIP, PaperlessPost: Love this tribute to Ray Bradbury from PaperlessPost:
For Ray Bradbury, who brought to life the things we could not have even imagined.
“Solvitur Ambulando” – It is solved by walking, Cereal for Cities, MPBC, labyrinths: Great walk on the Chartres – esq labryinth … Birds are singing for me … And I shared the sacred space with a beautiful woman named Eva. As she said … Namaste. And I left 4 boxes of cereal at MPBC — at Myers Park Baptist Church.
daily meditations:
Our Franciscan Saint Bonaventure, who wrote a lot about the Trinity, was influenced by a lesser-known figure called Richard of Saint Victor. Richard said, “For God to be good, God can be one. For God to be loving, God has to be two because love is always a relationship.” But his real breakthrough was saying that “For God to be supreme joy and happiness, God has to be three.” Lovers do not know full happiness until they both delight in the same thing, like new parents with the ecstasy of their first child.
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Prayer:
God is a circle dance of communion.
via Daily Meditation: Meditations on the Mystery of the Trinity — June 5, 2012.
Queen of England, Diamond Jubilee, Bonnie Brown: OK, everyone gets in on the act.
With the Queen of England’s Diamond Jubilee ramping up this weekend, we created two looks for the royal festivities. Check them out: http://bit.ly/JZNfw4
RedBox, movies, Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy: Anybody seen it? What did you think? Liked it, but takes a great deal of concentration. Loved MP’s comment:
You have to follow George’s eyeglass fashion to keep up with the changing times in the movie. I liked the book better than the movie.
anniversary: Today is one of those strange days, the birthday of one of my closest friends and the 9th anniversary of the death of my dad. Bittersweet.
innovation, new, coffee: new coffee? …plus 31 others. 32 Innovations That Will Change Your Tomorrow – Interactive Feature – NYTimes.com.
libraries, blogs, twitter, Salman Rushdie: ditto, Mr. Rushdie! “Zadie Smith’s beautiful, important piece about what’s happening to libraries. Please read.nybooks.com/blogs/nyrblog/…”
All libraries have a different character and setting. Some are primarily for children or primarily for students, or the general public, primarily full of books or microfilms or digitized material or with a café in the basement or a market out front. Libraries are not failing “because they are libraries.” Neglected libraries get neglected, and this cycle, in time, provides the excuse to close them. Well-run libraries are filled with people because what a good library offers cannot be easily found elsewhere: an indoor public space in which you do not have to buy anything in order to stay.
via The North West London Blues by Zadie Smith | NYRblog | The New York Review of Books.
economy: “But, for now at least, the outlook is far darker than it seemed to be only a couple of months ago.” via In Economic Deluge, a World That Can’t Bail Together – NYTimes.com.
workplace, misfits, Azberger’s Syndrone:
IN 1956 William Whyte argued in his bestseller, “The Organisation Man”, that companies were so in love with “well-rounded” executives that they fought a “fight against genius”. Today many suffer from the opposite prejudice. Software firms gobble up anti-social geeks. Hedge funds hoover up equally oddball quants. Hollywood bends over backwards to accommodate the whims of creatives. And policymakers look to rule-breaking entrepreneurs to create jobs. Unlike the school playground, the marketplace is kind to misfits.
“Solvitur Ambulando” – It is solved by walking
Back to walking … First walk in a few weeks and I have missed you, dear labyrinths!
Before I walk, I will finish Henrietta Lacks. What a treat to know so many have read this book.
Birds chirping …
6.1.12
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