I have been reading things from Jesus Radicals lately.

The current Geez magazine arrived Friday.
The best ratio of visual to mental to spiritual
(page 30, 34, 44 stand out for me thus far).
Often the Geez blog has decent things to pick through.

Today I came across an article on Burnside Writers,
that I thought interesting.
(I haven't read anything from them before
but will probably wonder around to see what its about).

“Ikon [or the church] is like the people who run a pub. It’s not their responsibility to help the patrons become friends. But they create a space in which people can actually encounter each other...Community isn’t manufactured, in other words, it’s discovered and then cultivated in a common place.”

I like that they call their church a collective, instead of community.
I like the idea of a space created merely for connection with others.

Should there be a bigger purpose for connecting?
Feeding people? Building things? Saving the planet?
Or can it just be people learning and knowing others?

Or maybe its through those connections the inspiration comes for movement.
And because of that inspiration and those connections we discover a purpose.

Perhaps my purpose is to create a place for connection.
I would like that.
Though I'm not sure in what form it will take.

These are the nicer things that stir my brain.
I will save the rants of the "being green" industries and
why people should stop having kids
and how trying to save the world really seems useless,
for another time.

“
BOMBING FOR PEACE
IS LIKE
FUCKING FOR VIRGINITY
 
”

TO DO THE BIDDING OF THE POOR
(excerpted from the book, Mother Teresa: In my Own Words.
excerpted from Geez magazine, Summer 2009)


I Believe it was Saint Vincent de Paul who used to say to those who wanted to join his congregation: "Never forget, my children, that the poor are our masters. That is why we should love them and serve them, with utter respect, and do that they bid us."

Do you not believe that it can happen, on the other hand, that we treat the poor like they are a garbage bag in which we throw everything we have no use for? Food we do not like or that is going bad - we throw it there.

Perishable goods past their expiration date, and which might harm us, go in the garbage bag: in other words, go to the poor. An article of clothing that is not in style anymore, that we do not want to wear again, goes to the poor; this is not to consider them our masters...

I ask you one thing: do not tire of giving, but do not give your leftovers.

this is the first sunday morning in a long time
i haven't had anything to do, anywhere to be
so i am sitting on the back porch at the in-laws
enjoying the sun and sipping some imitation "Dragon of Sarai"
the house is quiet right now
no Tingley's rustling about
it feels good to know this moment won't be interrupted
until i leave it and go onto the next part of my day

on my bike ride into town yesterday
a woman passed me and told me she liked my racked.
my bike rack of course.
then she took a picture while still riding and then zoomed off.
i found her choice of words amusing after the interaction ended.

two other things occurred yesterday
1. 426 bay street no longer contains our lives.
it is no longer the place to go when you need a conversation with one or two or seven friends.

2. sarai was so kind to give me her mamiya, which stopped working soon after the transition.
i took it to a place to get an estimate for repairs, $400 to get the job done.
i said no thank you and picked it up to figure out another solution...
but
when i tried it again for the first time after the repair guy had it...
it worked