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Saturday, November 19, 2011
the real vegetable pizza!
I'll bet I'm not the only one that made a pizza tonight that had a real vegetable on it! I looked at leftover delicata squash in my refrigerator and then glanced over to the garlic and chive cheese curds and an idea was born - a scathingly brilliant idea (well - sort of) I mashed the squash with a little butter and added pepper and ground nutmeg. Then when the crust was baked I spread the mashed squash and added fried onions and the sliced cheese curds. It really was so good I forgot to take a picture until it was ..... (I make a small pizza) ....
it tastes better than it looks. Appearance needs tweaking --
Tuesday, November 15, 2011
Thursday, October 13, 2011
archetypes and ego oh my
wonderful quote from Mark Greene Adventure in Archetype: Depth Psychology and the Humanities
"Some researchers even suggest that our concepts of free-will and independent agency are but illusions designed to not bruise our fragile egos."
Doesn't that present a lovely challenge to our religious predicaments. We can't handle much reality.
Off to buy it (it's on Kindle) and read the whole thing since this quote is from the introduction which is freely available to view.
"Some researchers even suggest that our concepts of free-will and independent agency are but illusions designed to not bruise our fragile egos."
Doesn't that present a lovely challenge to our religious predicaments. We can't handle much reality.
Off to buy it (it's on Kindle) and read the whole thing since this quote is from the introduction which is freely available to view.
Wednesday, October 5, 2011
more hats
http://s258.photobucket.com/albums/hh271/prairiebutterfly/pseko%20designs%20knit%20hats/
Getting ready for the fall sales -- the one above is old but I have posted a link to my photobucket page showing more recent designs. After I get another bushel of apples turned into juice it's back to 14 hours of knitting a day.
Tuesday, September 27, 2011
more on adult faith - or adult wisdom
"(a) Conventional inherited wisdom views all learning as passed down from wiser seniors to inferior juniors, and learning is primarily obtaining the wherewithal to function effectively for the benefit of human society.
(b) Embedded codependency leaves children and adolescents feeling like passive absorbers in conventional learning settings, while adult aspiration and intelligence are grossly neglected and undermined.
(c) Adult empowerment perceives the adult as a full participant in a coeducational process where wisdom is owned by all and the teacher serves as a catalyst facilitating a transformational process of exploration and new discovery.
Diarmuid O'Murchu in Adult Faith - Growing in Wisdom and Understanding pg. 97
I'd like to pass this around the US - schools, churches, and especially businesses. This doesn't mesh with our apparent frontier mentality - does it?
(b) Embedded codependency leaves children and adolescents feeling like passive absorbers in conventional learning settings, while adult aspiration and intelligence are grossly neglected and undermined.
(c) Adult empowerment perceives the adult as a full participant in a coeducational process where wisdom is owned by all and the teacher serves as a catalyst facilitating a transformational process of exploration and new discovery.
Diarmuid O'Murchu in Adult Faith - Growing in Wisdom and Understanding pg. 97
I'd like to pass this around the US - schools, churches, and especially businesses. This doesn't mesh with our apparent frontier mentality - does it?
Monday, September 26, 2011
clean lungs
why do some Republicans vote against clean air regulations? Don't they have lungs? Don't they love a few people who might die from unclean air? Or don't they understand the physics of a closed ecosystem?
Friday, September 23, 2011
a woman's faith development
Wouldn't this be a strange yet terrifying adventure?
"Unlike the epic hero, however, the female protagonist does not know her own goal in advance and must discover it through fluid adventure - meditation, memory, prayer, questioning, and associative weavings. And unlike the epic hero, her role is not to support but unravel and rewrite the already-written drama or script of religion and history." (Slee 2004, 98)
quoted in Diarmuid O'Murchu's Adult Faith pg 113
but isn't there a better antonym for epic hero than female protagonist? I understand it has been said that women can't be classic heroes - that our task is different (remember Robert Grave's opinion that a woman can only be a muse and never a poet?) - where is the balance?
"Unlike the epic hero, however, the female protagonist does not know her own goal in advance and must discover it through fluid adventure - meditation, memory, prayer, questioning, and associative weavings. And unlike the epic hero, her role is not to support but unravel and rewrite the already-written drama or script of religion and history." (Slee 2004, 98)
quoted in Diarmuid O'Murchu's Adult Faith pg 113
but isn't there a better antonym for epic hero than female protagonist? I understand it has been said that women can't be classic heroes - that our task is different (remember Robert Grave's opinion that a woman can only be a muse and never a poet?) - where is the balance?
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