tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-29373297.post1999942096689140912..comments2024-03-23T18:50:32.902-04:00Comments on Telling Secrets: Marking and Making the Passage of Time - All on a Two Dog NightElizabeth Kaetonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06787552280232329081noreply@blogger.comBlogger12125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-29373297.post-38570514129417347012009-01-02T22:08:00.000-05:002009-01-02T22:08:00.000-05:00This is beautiful Elizabeth - I love what you say ...This is beautiful Elizabeth - I love what you say about making time rather than marking it at the end.<BR/><BR/>That said, the whole post just resonated with who you are and how your light shines in the world.<BR/><BR/>I am ever grateful to bask in the glow of that light!Franhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07181529277715646835noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-29373297.post-13404343513980750722009-01-02T12:58:00.000-05:002009-01-02T12:58:00.000-05:00Sounds like a lovely ringing in of the new Year. I...Sounds like a lovely ringing in of the new Year. I too have pretty much given up trying to debate those on the far right. There is just no way you are going to change a mind, mine or theirs it seems, and so it only engenders anger and resentment. I find myself composing scathing retorts which of course I never post. It is just plain unhealthy, and I for the most part don't engage in it any more. I liked the process but every forum I have ever found deteriorates into rancor and hostility. May the New Year bring much joy. I'm reading more, and determined to do my treadmill and stay focused on finishing tasks that I start.!Sherryhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15503657383929273550noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-29373297.post-79140047462072694672009-01-01T22:26:00.000-05:002009-01-01T22:26:00.000-05:00OMG! I just figured out what Viagraland is. How fu...OMG! I just figured out what Viagraland is. How funny, and a perfect way to refer to their site. I guess I was a little slow on the uptake. Yeah, the pigs just get frustrated all right.Jane Priesthttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03538010409948644265noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-29373297.post-87875859394215002642009-01-01T21:26:00.000-05:002009-01-01T21:26:00.000-05:00Oh, no! Now it is revealed. I have a crush on Da...Oh, no! Now it is revealed. I have a crush on Dahveed. My apologies, Padre. I love, love LOVE your Christmas pageant done by your various plastic and clay friends. Always a favorite. It wouldn't be Christmas without it.<BR/><BR/>Listen, y'all are focusing way too much on what I'm not planning to do rather than what I AM planning to do. Viagraland is a very tiny dot on the Anglican landscape. Let's not ascribe them importance or significance which they do not have. Well, not in my life anyway.<BR/><BR/>Life is good. It's a gift. Let's celebrate it.<BR/><BR/>What are you doing to improve the quality of your life in 2009?Elizabeth Kaetonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06787552280232329081noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-29373297.post-11027486045980858602009-01-01T19:35:00.000-05:002009-01-01T19:35:00.000-05:00I'm not Dahveed, I'm Padre Mickey! We is different...I'm not Dahveed, I'm Padre Mickey! We is different persons, yet both your brothers en Christ!Padre Mickeyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07580459577853346369noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-29373297.post-14697764272974487662009-01-01T16:16:00.000-05:002009-01-01T16:16:00.000-05:00It is hard for me to imagine anyone new saying, "I...It is hard for me to imagine anyone new saying, "Is she still here?" The out-of-control hateful have been saying it since you were ordained I think. But no one who admires and loves you and they are many. I am not arguing with your decisions,[I am old not stupid!] merely noting a point. ;-) <BR/><BR/>I left VOL some time ago for similar reasons. I was and remain willing to engage in serious exploration of varying viewpoints and ideas. I am not willing to be a punching bag. I seldom post on the bullies site. They do not want to consider ideas or even defeat them -- they merely want to shout anathemas: they have their reward.<BR/><BR/>Ah well.<BR/><BR/><BR/>Happy 2009!<BR/><BR/>FWIW<BR/>jimB<BR/>(continuing to recover is slowly, in Chicago)JimBhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17312606954135884910noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-29373297.post-20043574148696579292009-01-01T14:41:00.000-05:002009-01-01T14:41:00.000-05:00Well, so far, dear Elizabeth, I have spent my New ...Well, so far, dear Elizabeth, I have spent my New Year's day fixing black eyed peas and blogging about the tradition of eating them on New Year's day...and writing a collect for the dinner prayer that was inspired by black eyed peas and Jer. 29:11. Not much of a "resolution."<BR/><BR/>But I have also started a year long devotional with "A year of days with the BCP." As a backdoor Piskie with heavy Lutheran overtones, I decided I wanted to become more intimately acquainted with the parts of the BCP we only use sporadically, the prayers, the collects, etc. <BR/><BR/>This, I think will make me look in different parts of the BCP than the "usual" parts. This came out of one of my "walk n' chats" with my vicar, who told me, "As active and imaginative as your mind is, and as well as you can put stuff to paper yourself, I think there is a mine full of hidden treasure for you in the BCP."<BR/><BR/>I understand perfectly about your need to get a divorce from Viagraville. There is a place where one realizes all that you have left is to shake the dust off your feet, wish them Godspeed, and keep on walkin'. When I meet impasses in my life, I have to resign to myself that, yes, God can change things, but it is apparent He doesn't plan to use me for this job. He probably has other and better plans for me and I should stop beating my head against wall and look for a doorway.<BR/><BR/>Happy new year!Kirkepiscatoidhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02651684515435040529noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-29373297.post-45326330262027221142009-01-01T14:03:00.000-05:002009-01-01T14:03:00.000-05:00For me - Getting better at forgiveness. And it se...For me - Getting better at forgiveness. And it seems to be working.JimMollohttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15569109219280693846noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-29373297.post-63924824235216759242009-01-01T13:33:00.000-05:002009-01-01T13:33:00.000-05:00I gave up "that place I refuse to go and read" las...I gave up "that place I refuse to go and read" last year for New Year's. It took a while, but I haven't been over there in about six months. I didn't even ask them to remove my membership. <BR/><BR/>I did slip a couple of times when there were things brewing in the Communion, but even if they seem to get the news faster, I can get it other, saner places fairly quickly. Haven't missed them a bit. I haven't even gone to VOL in months. <BR/><BR/>Besides, I have too much other stuff on my plate this coming year!<BR/><BR/>Hugs,<BR/>JeffJeffri Harrehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06461994557670902616noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-29373297.post-20956020947726426392009-01-01T12:43:00.000-05:002009-01-01T12:43:00.000-05:00Okay, here's the thing, Muthah+, I'm not retiring....Okay, here's the thing, Muthah+, I'm not retiring. Not any time soon. I've got lots and lots of years left in this girl's body and mind and heart and soul. Jesus ain't no where near done with me. That's first. <BR/><BR/>The second is that I am not going to stop being an activist. It's in my blood - my DNA. I just think it's time for folks like me to begin to take a seat in the back row. I'll still be very much around, however.<BR/><BR/>The last thing - the very last thing - I want is for someone to sigh and say, "Oh, God, is SHE still around?" You and I both know people like that.<BR/><BR/>Just shoot me, okay? Just shoot me.<BR/><BR/>And, darling Dahveed, there is very little comparison between T19 and Viagraland. T19 has elves who monitor the conversation and bounce those who regularly practice hate-speech. I just discovered that even DV of VOL can't stand the boys at Viagraland. Fascinating. Although, I do think it's probably a boy pissing and marking territory contest, you know, "I'm King of the Orthodite News Hill - no I'M King of the Orthodite News Hill" kinda thing. <BR/><BR/>While T19 is often one of my stops around the Anglican corner of cyberspace, I rarely comment there. There's often not much to say there that someone else won't say.<BR/><BR/>My trips to and comments at Viagraland were an even greater rarity and that will remain the case. I'll just check in, as I often do, when a "Big Story" breaks for the orthodites. That will be happening less and less these days. I suspect they'll continue to comment (even if they have to drag stuff over illegally from HOB/D) on TEC, but who cares what they think of us? Most of them are not even members of TEC any longer. Who cares? <BR/><BR/>The church in the North is very, very different than the one in the South. That's fer shur.Elizabeth Kaetonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06787552280232329081noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-29373297.post-78294236425411943722009-01-01T12:07:00.000-05:002009-01-01T12:07:00.000-05:00Happy New Year! Having been in my 60s for some ye...Happy New Year! Having been in my 60s for some years now, I pass on a little comment from one of my octagenarians from my parish. She said "O, Honey! I would never go back to my 60's! That's when you find out that things don't work as well as they used to. By your 80's, you don't care!"<BR/><BR/>I take that to mind when the aches and pains want to keep me abed. Since my mom is 97 and still kickin', I have some years to look forward to.<BR/><BR/>I am dismayed that you would forego the national church work. I have always been upset with the liberal bishops who quit going to convention when they retired and allowed the conservative grums have their say. There are so many places in the Church that continue to need your kind of wisdom, my dear. Stay with us, por favor!Muthah+https://www.blogger.com/profile/10589837671378205837noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-29373297.post-15092788958203096362009-01-01T11:48:00.000-05:002009-01-01T11:48:00.000-05:00¡Feliz Año Nuevo to you and yours, Revda. Elizabet...¡Feliz Año Nuevo to you and yours, Revda. Elizabeth!<BR/>I don't make resolutions and then I don't have to worry about not keeping them.<BR/><BR/>I'm with you on the not-talking-with-the-orthodites thang, but I also know that I am weak and, while I don't visit Viagraville very often, I do go to Titus1:9 when I want to raise my blood pressure. The issues of the Church in Central America are not always the same as those in North America, and I'm amazed at the stuff going up in the north. So I just keep praying for you all.<BR/><BR/>Have a happy new year and thank you for your blog and all you do to help bring about God's Reign.Padre Mickeyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07580459577853346369noreply@blogger.com