Winter\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Waxing Cold Moon<\/p>\n
The NFC championship game\u00a0 is today.\u00a0 You know where I’ll be.\u00a0 Yup.\u00a0 Right there in the chair, cheering on the Vikes.\u00a0 After dispassionately reading all the match-up analysis and carefully considering all the key information, I still believe the Vikes win a close one.\u00a0 Adrian Peterson dominates the running game.\u00a0 We keep Drew Brees and his high flyers off the field.\u00a0 Favre connects with Rice twice, Shiancoe once, Berrian once and Peterson goes in for one.\u00a0 Jared Allen and Ray Edwards keep Brees out of his rhythm and don’t allow deep balls.\u00a0 Vikes 35.\u00a0 Saints 28.<\/p>\n
I had a strange dream last night.\u00a0 Somehow I got a job working in a financial company, investment company, something like that.\u00a0 Our financial planner, RJ Devick, worked there.\u00a0 I did some work that needed to be turned in by a specific time, but couldn’t find either a phone or the work.\u00a0 Borrowed RJ’s phone, still couldn’t find the work.<\/p>\n
All the while Izzy, the famous Hawai’ian singer, sang background music, “Living in an alien land.”\u00a0 This was to the tune of his protest song, “Living in a sovereign Land.”<\/p>\n
I went out for a while, came back to the office (music still playing) and I had red rock dust on a sweatshirt and I realized I had way under dressed for work.\u00a0 I couldn’t go back in.\u00a0 I went out to get the Celica and it had one of those tiny spares on it–though in this case it was very large and shredded.<\/p>\n
I’m still working on this one.\u00a0 Guess I recalled it after my Jung tribute.<\/p>\n
Might have been related to some reading I did in a journal from 1991, written as I separated from the Presbytery and started writing.\u00a0 Some of it made my teeth clench.\u00a0 I planned and planned, struggled this way and that, but had trouble finding a new\u00a0 way, even though what I wrote there made clear the ministry had never been the way.\u00a0 A hard time even though I was breaking free, or, maybe, a hard time because I was breaking free.\u00a0 There would be another ten years of on again off again angst as I wrote, got rejected, failed to market my work, felt like a failure, was a failure.<\/p>\n
Then, somewhere in my 50’s I began to realize I had broken through into the life this Self came into the world to live.\u00a0 It’s not a flashy or big life–as I wanted at times before–it’s a life devoted to family, beauty, the earth, creativity and knowledge.<\/p>\n
And, at least for this evening–the Vikings.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Winter\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Waxing Cold Moon The NFC championship game\u00a0 is today.\u00a0 You know where I’ll be.\u00a0 Yup.\u00a0 Right there in the chair, cheering on the Vikes.\u00a0 After dispassionately reading all the match-up analysis and carefully considering all the key information, I still believe the Vikes win a close one.\u00a0 Adrian Peterson dominates the running game.\u00a0 We … Continue reading Living in Alien Land<\/span>