Journal Entry

Dear Diary,

Today I ate a sandwich, when I really wanted breakfast. But I didn't have any breakfast and the store I went to was finished serving breakfast.

"We have sandwiches" she said.

"Ok, the Chicken Parmesan Panini" I said, because I was hungry for breakfast, but they didn't have any.

It was 9:45 in the morning.

I feel sick. I feel sick today. I feel sick today and it's only 10:15.

In other news, I read the book "Blue Like Jazz" the other day. The most memorable part of the book came when the author and his friends set up a "Confession Booth" at the "Wild Days festival" that occurs on campus at their extremely loose west coast university.

The catch?

All the Christians running the booth (a total of five or so) confess. They confess that they haven't loved like Jesus. They confess that they haven't fed the hungry or clothed the naked. They confess that - while they didn't personally have anything to do with the Crusades - they are sorry for them. Sorry for those people who may have been believers but not followers.

Here's another thing. The author tells about a time that he went to a conference where the speaker was discussing the power of language. The example that the speaker used was the language that we when we talk about cancer. We say "Win the fight against cancer." We say, "So-and-so is battling cancer."

We use war metaphors to discuss cancer. Apparently there is research that suggests that people who use different types of metaphors fare better than those who use the war metaphor. The idea is that war is a stressful situation and added stress does not aid in recovery.

Then the speaker asked people to talk about relationships. Shortly it was seen that relationships are most often talked about using an economic metaphor. We value relationships. Relationships cost. They are work. You have to sacrifice.

There were many other examples. Better than the ones that I remembered.

Hmmm...

Next subject. I have to figure out how to stay warm and not make my lungs bleed when I'm sucking the cold air up here trying to run. Any ideas?

posted by Headless-in-GR @ 10/20/2005 10:07:00 AM

 

Comments:

interesting!!!

# by:  Captainwow : 6:36 PM

 

I had never heard of anything like that before hearing the story. "Tony the Beat Poet" actually spoke at a retreat I went to in college and told us that story. It absolutely blew my mind.

# by:  Cameron Lawrence : 10:45 PM

 

You met Tony the Beat Poet whose not really a beat poet?!

Nifty!

# by:  Headless-in-GR : 1:10 PM

 

not whose - "who is"

# by:  Headless-in-GR : 1:11 PM

 

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