-random thought-
sometimes I find where I’m living so ridiculous it makes me chuckle while driving in the car.
Not only am I in the home of the:
worlds largest county fair
largest waterpark
wurstfest (sausage & beer festival)
but also to the largest number of inebriated floating toobers per square foot.
However, I am soon to realize my attraction to places culturally rich and slightly off-the-wall
considering my closest family and friends
burned a fifty foot tall puppet to the ground this past Thursday
no doubt surrounded by a sweet smelling smoke and people of all ethnicities shouting “Que Viva.”
What a world.
About Me
Saturday, September 12, 2009
Just finished Life of Pi by Yann Martel, beautiful story.
Loved a number of aspects of this novel, particularly the shout out to swimming, tribute to faith, and glorification of the power of a great tale.
As a lifelong competitive swimmer (who was more fond of practice than competition until my final year), I felt Martel beautifully described the glory of being a swimmer. “Swimming instruction, which in time became swimming practice, was grueling, but there was the deep pleasure of doing a stroke with increasing ease and speed, over and over, till hypnosis practically, the water turning from molten lead to liquid light.” The joy of this feeling.
Next time I am in Paris I have to check out the Piscine Molitor. Sounds incredible.
I enjoy how young Pi seeks out and conforms to three very different religions at once. Reminds me of my bic days. My favorite of his descriptions includes “Christianity stretches back through the ages, but in essence it exists only at one time: right now.” That is what I love, that it seeks out the right now and being the best you can right now, loving your neighbor, your enemy, and your God. Pi’s love for God and stories kept him alive during those frightful days overseas, and it can keep us alive every day.
And in summary, to examine the ever powerful Chapter 21 & 22. To avoid the “glum contentment that characterizes my life” I agree that it is important to take part in “the better story” and belong to “an alignment of the universe along moral lines, not intellectual ones; a realization that the founding principle of existence is what we call love . . .”
Loved a number of aspects of this novel, particularly the shout out to swimming, tribute to faith, and glorification of the power of a great tale.
As a lifelong competitive swimmer (who was more fond of practice than competition until my final year), I felt Martel beautifully described the glory of being a swimmer. “Swimming instruction, which in time became swimming practice, was grueling, but there was the deep pleasure of doing a stroke with increasing ease and speed, over and over, till hypnosis practically, the water turning from molten lead to liquid light.” The joy of this feeling.
Next time I am in Paris I have to check out the Piscine Molitor. Sounds incredible.
I enjoy how young Pi seeks out and conforms to three very different religions at once. Reminds me of my bic days. My favorite of his descriptions includes “Christianity stretches back through the ages, but in essence it exists only at one time: right now.” That is what I love, that it seeks out the right now and being the best you can right now, loving your neighbor, your enemy, and your God. Pi’s love for God and stories kept him alive during those frightful days overseas, and it can keep us alive every day.
And in summary, to examine the ever powerful Chapter 21 & 22. To avoid the “glum contentment that characterizes my life” I agree that it is important to take part in “the better story” and belong to “an alignment of the universe along moral lines, not intellectual ones; a realization that the founding principle of existence is what we call love . . .”
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