Anne Kennedy waxes wonderful about work - in all its repetitive monotony - and about the "very very few things . . . . that we do one time only for complete lasting satisfaction and joy."
Lars Walker writes about the Apologetic of Story (that's part one, and part two is here) and why - except for the witness of the actual lives of the saints - it is story that most compellingly convinces us of the truth of the gospel.
Betsy Barber writes about the Tale of Two Daughters in the gospel of Mark. I liked these two parts especially:
. . . she reaches out, and touches Jesus’ clothes and immediately the flow of blood stops and she feels in her body that she is healed of the disease. . . . Touching Jesus should have made him unclean, instead the touch made the woman clean! . . .
and then in regard to Jairus' daughter:
We are told in Numbers 5 that touching dead bodies defiles a living person. But again, the holy power differential flows the other way with the Lord Jesus.
(Hi, Mom!)
(The author is my mom.)
(Okay, I'm done with parenthetical statements; onto the rest of the links.)
This article explains why Ravelry is so awesome. It's the perfect cross-referencing. It really, really is.
Over at Learning As We Go, read about a huge study from the New England Journal of Medicine and what does and does not (statistically) lead to weight maintenance.
Annnnnnd, this is why I'm in favor of continuing to protect the second amendment. A story of a family fighting back against a home invader.
A guest blog by the awesome Elizabeth Moon on the subject of epic fantasy. I found this part particularly interesting:
Transformation, in epic, is as much bigger than the “growth” the usual story protagonist manages as the epic challenge is greater than the problems of ordinary characters. Transformation goes deeper, affects more of the character. At the end, the once lumpy and awkward caterpillar in the confining chrysalis breaks out, and has that triumph…but is so changed that it’s rare for an epic hero to go home and live a quiet life–sit by the fire, grow a few vegetables, settle down with the family, bore the grandchildren with familiar stories.
Frodo couldn’t. (Sam could, and that’s particularly interesting since without Sam, Frodo wouldn’t have been successful. Tolkien was showing something very, very interesting about character in that.)
Become An Email Jedi In 7 Steps. Love it! (Using it, too.)
This dance routine made me tear up; it's just beautiful. The story line is that they're two statues who can dance at night, but that have to become still once the sun rises, and it's a bit of a love story, and it's just amazing:
2 comments:
See, THAT is why I love dance. It is such a beautiful way to tell a story. How did you come across this one? Do you watch the show?
I watched a bit of it while we had Hulu Plus (which we did briefly, in order to get caught up on another show). It's a really fun show, though! Dance is definitely a medium suited for television!
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