Verona Hates Those Catching up on Current Events

Last weekend my sister and I walked to Verona and this is what we came across...It was priceless. I mean I want to pretend I am a man just so I can get my haircut by this barber. I do not know who he hates so much, but hopefully he won't have a trap door and be singing about his unjust imprisonment with razors gleaming.

I had to post this because it was halarious.

Thoughts on Consumption

CONSUME

1. to destroy or expend by use; use up.
2. to eat or drink up; devour.
3. to destroy, as by decomposition or burning: Fire consumed the forest.
4. to spend (money, time, etc.) wastefully.
5. to absorb; engross: consumed with curiosity.
6. to undergo destruction; waste away.
7. to use or use up consumer goods.

So I have been thinking that the work Consume is pretty intense. God is a consuming fire and our sin can consume us. The main way I think of consume is in the food sense. You rip open a plastic wrapper in minutes you consume whatever processed food is inside. Consume is all about taking and using without giving anything back except maybe waste. If life is only about consuming is it worth living because honestly if I think about only exsisting to consume it makes me want to cry. So much of what is good in life and worth energy is the things that are not about our needs and fit the economic label of consumerist society. Aren't you glad that we do not consume communion but we partake it. Partake at least connotates that there is an act of sharing and participating. God can definately consume us in that we are at His totally and absolute mercy. There is no way we can consume God because ultimately it is not about swallowing something whole and then forgetting about it. It is about partaking.


CONSUMER

1. One that consumes, especially one that acquires goods or services for direct use or ownership rather than for resale or use in production and manufacturing.
2. A heterotrophic organism that ingests other organisms or organic matter in a food chain.

As far as I am concerned right now I feel defination 1 & 2 are one in the same. I want to be more then a consumer and learn how create not destroy, provide sustinance and not just eat, to save and not just spend, to emit and not just absorb, to give and not just get.

List of things I want to do in Life

1. NOT create any lists of what I want to do in life.


Ahhh, somehow I feel incredibly fulfilled.

Everyone wants to analyze why our culture has deteriorated so dramatically from say 50 years ago. Um, all I have to explain is "Barbie Fairytopia."

I miss Mr. Rogers so much I wish I could ride a trolly to the neighborhood of make-believe with King Friday and start a war against Barbie....but remember Lady Elaine I would do away with her because she scared me.

Lola & Ariel - I am tagging you to write a story, memory, how-to or whatever using the following words

Snout
Acoustic
Persistance
Aqua
itch
Flitter
cerebral
entwine

The blog below is a story I was tagged to do from Carly using the following words...

birthday green scar fireplace calligraphy magic float fur fresh picture

I am going to tag two other people soon.

On my 17th birthday, I received a box with an Asian green and gold, stitched pattern. I opened the fragile box and contained inside was a quill and two vials of jet black ink from an uncle who had recently been to China. He told me he found it in a remote village he was visiting. He entered a shop filled with both oddities, antiques and tools. The owner of the store was a short, stocky man with a large scar on his right check. His wife was stitching a scarf next to the fireplace which was small and not very warm. The instant my uncle entered the shop, he knew the owner was not going to let him leave without purchasing something. As he searched the store this small box caught his eye. The owner told him Buddhist monks spent their whole lives mastering the art of creating a text in perfect balance and beauty.

He said to me as I looked at this set, “If monks spend their life mastering the art of scripting words down how much more do we need to master the act of what words to put down.”

Sometimes I feel calligraphy transforms the words themselves into some new language of magic almost as if the look of the words themselves have more meaning then the actual words themselves. Every stroke seems to float on the page with such elegance that you could add a long, French cigarette and a fur coat on it and call it “Mademoiselle.” When using the fresh, black ink with such careful, studied strokes the writer becomes a painter and the story a picture.

It is a shame calligraphy is a lost art. We type keys of perfectly crafted letters but idea of not only putting thoughts down but the idea that art and words are synonymous is something to ponder or perhaps pen in calligraphy.