Mistakes -> Forgiveness

“I call the nurse we call when we have questions. We call her when the IV isn’t dripping properly, or when there’s a bubble in the tube, or when bruises the size of dinner plates appear on our mother’s back.”

I’ve been reading A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius by Dave Eggers ever since I left What is the What? For days I questioned, “What did I do with What is the What? What in the world did I do with What is the What?” I longed for the what, then I realized the what was Florida and a beach bag.

I’m robbing your time to share this quote -> to point out that I’ve read “IV” as “4” for a day and a half. An obvious mistake- oh the pages I read unengaged enough to make this mindless mistake.

Pilot of a time machine, I’d pilot back in time – take back the take, avoid the mistake and take it all over again. This time – I’d take it the right way. No mistakes.

The luxury.

BUT HA! There’s forgiveness. I embrace it haphazardly and without caution. Me, you, us – victims to the crosshairs that birth mistakes. Mistakes strike us often and like a young buck – before we realize – we jump the wrong way and too late.

Mistakes – my specialty.

There are scenarios that I don’t respond to correctly. I clumsily maneuver through. There are turns I take wrong. There are words I don’t stop quickly enough.

Very valued relationships, career maneuvers, family ties – they all suffer the consequence.

Alas, though – thank God for forgiveness because we are all a walking Barry Bonds of mistakes. We hit the ball out  the park and never take notice of the warning track. Thank God for forgiveness! Without it we’d all be alone and constantly in front of a merciless jury.

Forgiving each other and forgiving ourselves = Yow! 

Sara

I’m a pusher. I’m a light pusher. No rebel with/without a cause. No vigilante fighting for causes. No high school student working for detention. I do push though, a little… when norms are at my feet – I try to tip-toe on them. When the world gives me lemons I make lemonade, etc. 

In addition – this blog is by no means geared towards self promotion.

With that said, allow me to be selfless and promote Sara Harvey – who’s well written blogs keep an avg. joe like me hoping (not jumping… you know… hope + ing = hoping… right?? fine – hopeful!) hopeful. Hopeful towards -> better writing skills. 

Explore a lady’s move to New York. A lady’s daring throw of caution to the wind. A lady’s Greenville roots blown and strained by the hurricane that is New York City. 

http://www.enthugger.blogspot.com/

World

“In a furious burst, I kick and kick again, flailing my body like a fish run aground. Hear me Christian neighbors! Hear your brother just above! 

Nothing again. No one is listening. No one is waiting to hear the kicking  of a man above. It is unexpected. You have no ears for someone like me.” 

What is the What – Dave Eggers

http://www.nytimes.com/pages/world/index.html

Greetings

Greetings, 

I had a professor in college that would use “geetings” at the beginning of all his letters/notes/love letters. I find myself doing the same – often. 

I am currently on “holiday” “vacation” “a brief respite ” at Indian Harbour Beach on the eastern coast of Florida. The dynamic inherit with a family vacation is one I’ve always enjoyed and suffered through. I don’t think any elaboration or definition is needed here. 

Indian Harbour was named the first tsunami-ready city in Florida. I feel safe and secure… kinda. Tsunamis can strike quick – sometimes as quick as only providing a window of 15 minutes to seek security. 

Last night, my Dad went to the movies for the first time since 1993. “Are seats like these in every theatre now?” Lets never forget the luxury that is stadium seating.

Personal Effects

“When we’re unemployed, we’re called lazy; when the whites are unemployed it’s called a depression.”  ~Jesse Jackson

This is my box of personal effects. Today, I became unemployed. I exited with high praise and well-wishes from my colleagues.  

Strangely – I only suffer through minor/brief bouts with work-search related anxiety.  

“What seems to us as bitter trials are often blessings in disguise.” O. Wilde

Humbling

“The number of humble-bees in any district depends in a great degree on the number of field-mice, which destroy their combs and nests; and Mr. H. Newman, who has long attended to the habits of humble-bees, believes that “more than two thirds of them are thus destroyed all over England.” Now the number of mice is largely dependent, as every one knows, on the number of cats; and Mr. Newman says, “Near villages and small towns I have found the nests of humble-bees more numerous than elsewhere, which I attribute to the number of cats that destroy the mice.” Hence it is quite credible that the presence of a feline animal in large numbers in a district might determine, through the intervention first of mice and then of bees, the frequency of certain flowers in that district!”

- Darwin in On the Origin of Species -

The more interesting part of this passage is that humble bees are now called bumble bees. What brought on the change? Humility is such an endearing quality. Moses was a humble being. 

Numbers 12:3

Foxes…

The reviews proved to be true.

Fleet Foxes created an amazing album.

Its a walk through a forest where you don’t get bitten, scratched…. too hot…. or too cold. 

Let it repeat over and over. 

Shoot!

I read an interesting article today about the US preparing the battlefield in Iran. Its long but worth the read. Its from the New Yorker and is written by Seymour M. Hersh, who has proven himself to have the inside information on what goes on within Washington circles. Here you go:  http://www.newyorker.com/reporting/2008/07/07/080707fa_fact_hersh?currentPage=1

Current issues have been itching at me this week. I hear people fret over encroaching government. They fail to realize that we’ve already been encroached by oil companies, health insurance companies, corporations, etc.  Get this – Health insurance companies at one point paid out over 70 percent of claims presented to them and now only pay a little over half. If I really wrote a blog, I’d use it as a vehicle to present facts, claims, sources, etc to validate my point. I might would even curse a little to express my sincere distaste over “the way things are.” 

Perhaps my laziness in providing sources, facts, etc only add to the lackadaisical approach by Us (the global public). 

In other news, Greer.