5.01.2011

Getting Ready

Last week, I picked up a copy of Philip Gambone's Travels in a Gay Nation, and I loved it (more on that later, maybe). I love essays and biography, and this was particularly good.

In one chapter, Bishop Gene Robinson says that he keeps a little piece of paper in front of him during interviews. It says, "It's about God, Stupid." I have a big meeting tomorrow morning. I keep catching myself mentally fussing over it, thinking about how I can be insightful and charming and funny. That's not what it's about, though.

It's about God, Stupid.

(Wouldn't that make a great embroidered sampler?)

Thanks, Gene.
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  1. Crimson Rambler7:18 PM

    thank you for the quote -- yes, it would indeed be a fine sampler, h'm...
    and thank you even more for a favourite quote from Wendell Berry about sacred and desecrated. It wasn't exactly what I thought I remembered (story of my life these days)-- so I'm doubly grateful!

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  2. Princess of Everything (and then some)7:24 PM

    I am going to have to remember that!

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  3. Dr. Laura Marie Grimes5:45 AM

    Thanks, Di--so important for me to remember right now as I do some important work for God/dess that could get me totally off track into me!

    Prayers for the meeting...

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"So keep fightin' for freedom and justice, beloveds, but don't you forget to have fun doin' it. Lord, let your laughter ring forth. Be outrageous, ridicule the fraidy-cats, rejoice in all the oddities that freedom can produce. And when you get through kickin' ass and celebratin' the sheer joy of a good fight, be sure to tell those who come after how much fun it was."
-Saint Molly Ivins

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