A Brief Update
Well not much has changed in the last 5 months, and thats making me itchy. I’m still grinding away working and still getting progressively more fed up with los angeles on the whole. Xie dropped her camera resulting in its early retirement. Which also explains why there are way less photos on flickr (see little photo matrix at the right), I may take more picture than she does but shes way better about sorting and uploading (for me that feels too close to work haha).
We attended some beautiful weddings this season, and our friends have had some beautiful babies! Both causes for rejoicing. We love our community here and i think its literally the only thing keeping us from flying away to another town forever. The slow exodus of our closest friends to other cities seems assured as cost of living here is on the increase and quality of life is well… where it always was. Maybe that’s why I’m really excited about a little proposal I’m working on for our friends at church. I’ll keep my cats in the proverbial burlap sack for now but let’s assume it has to do with moving, community, and shared property. Wow i think i let three cats out… good thing they reproduce in litters.
I will leave you with a complete non-sequitor from my former-PMC friend Kent Sensenig who recently left LA to work with his wife on a farm in the mid west. He says this about some rather famous christian children’s literature.
PS–Speaking of Aslan (and given my own childhood love of Narnia), I’ve been disturbed to realize how much the Narnian movies coming out are engendering a war spirit in the next generation, as being part and parcel of the Gospel message/Western morality (and very consciously in a post-9/11 imperialist “West vs. the rest” context, I believe, just as the makers of the Lord of the Rings were doing). It is tragic how Satan, the “father of lies and murderer from the beginning” (that is, the relentlessly irrational if systemic spirit of violence, division, and enmity), can use such otherwise wonderful creations to its devouringly lethal (and very current) ends. C.S. Lewis worshiped the god of war (Mars) alongside his Christian god, as many do. (Both Lewis and Tolkien used their fantasy novels to work out the trauma of their experience in the trenches of WW I, though in problematic, unJesus kind of ways, I’m afraid. Tolkien, I believe, at least maintained a more traditionally sober just war position, whereas Lewis was tempted to glory in its horrific activity. Both were the products of the world’s greatest Empire, prior to our own.)
Lays it on the line don’t it. I have conflicting views on this but that’s topic for another post.
lee
seth,
how long has it been since we’ve chatted? i’ve been intending to call you for a spell and give you our news…
we up and moved to murrieta.
there. now that’s out. let’s call one another and catch up for real, eh?
lee