Sunday Thoughts

To be completely honest, I have no thoughts this Sunday.  For me, it has been a lazy afternoon after a morning in the kitchen.  I slept until after 8:00, and then made breakfast:  home-made biscuits, sausage, and eggs.  After cleaning my cooking mess, I read the paper.  Then I chopped veggies for a pasta-tuna salad, put it all together, cleaned the kitchen again, and retired to my chair in the living room.  Once there, I alternated napping and flicky-channeling between the US Women's Open Golf Championship, the travel channel, and a program about the Netherlands on Science TV.  Altogether, not a very intellectually stimulating day.  The ladies golf was the best of the three.

I read another excellent article in Time by Michael Scherer.  He is beginning to build my confidence that I will receive good, and occasionally excellent writing.  Today's article, "The Five Pillars of Obama's Foreign Policy" is, I think, interesting not so much because it brings out new information or deep analysis, but because it places Obama's major speeches in a context I hadn't thought of.  That may be saying more about me than Scherer, but so what.  I think it is a good article.

Felix's Growlery blog post today, "A thing of twofold beauty",  was without a doubt, the most enjoyable reading I did this evening.  Felix truly has a firm grasp on what is important in this world.  Unreal Nature's "The Glass Eye" was disturbing intellectually, but because of that, important.  Coming after our recent discussions of the South, it reminded me that the South Ms Heyward and I love has strains of true brutality and ugliness.  Perhaps between the two blogs is a lesson; there could be ugly strains in all of us, and we need the warmth and humanity of Daniel and Felix as balance.

These are the thoughts for today.  I hope to be back tomorrow with more.

Comments

[Julie Heyward]

"To be completely honest, I have no thoughts this Sunday."

[laughing]

I too sometimes have no thoughts -- I find it to be quite pleasant; even exhilarating. It would be very handy if I could turn them on and off with a spigot.