June 16, 2008> 12:55 PM
sandals and tomatoes Those are my feet in my sandals. They are Chacos (I have the Z/1 with the thicker sole) and I highly recommend them. They're not cheap but they will last you a long while. That's not really why I took a picture of my feet in sandals though. I was sitting in the park around the baseball field before Conor's game the other day and had something running through my mind. I'm not sure how widespread this word is but I saw it on the internets and it kind of stuck with me.
Here you go: Sandalista. Alrighty then - I think a Sandalista is supposed to be some kind of "whacked out, liberal Catholic" or something. It seems a bit of a negative slam of sorts. Some random thoughts that came to mind about it were as follows:
Hmm, Jesus probably wore some kind of sandals - hmmm.
Hey, I wear sandals all the time!
Yeah, that just doesn't come off very well, does it?
I hate how "liberal agenda" items 4-6 always get lumped in with items 1-3 (which aren't necessarily about being "liberal" at all as the term gets thrown around).
Is name-calling really going to help anything?
Hey, I call names sometimes too - maybe I should rethink that.
Boy do I hate controversy - all this throw-down arguing is just not helpful.
Anyway, nothing profound on that whole thing, just some thoughts. I do have other shoes that I wear often, but I have these cool sandals. I even have the "Chaco lines" on my feet from suntan. Maybe I'm just saying, I'm cool like that.
Yesterday was a gardening day for me and Liz. Well, after Mass and naps, we got out into the yard and I finished putting together these tomato cages I wanted to put around the tomatoes that Liz planted. We also transplanted some of the "wild" tomatoes that sprung up in the garden from last year and built a cage system for them as well along the back of the house. We're 'gonna have a heap 'o 'maters this year I'm thinkin'.
You can go here to check out photos I took yesterday of what we were doing. Also, I took another bunch of photos of the whole garden a few days ago - you can see those here.
Liz is way ahead of me on this gardening thing, but I was finding yesterday, that this was really good "work" for me. It was just good and healthy to be out there. Productive, peaceful, and for us too, very prophetic in how it kind of foreshadows a life that we will have in that rural, monastic community setting here in the next few years. I encourage any of you who are monastically oriented, if you have room, to just do the garden thing. It's just some good old ora et labora stuff - thanks St. Benedict.
June 16, 2008
> 12:55 PM
Those are my feet in my sandals. They are Chacos (I have the Z/1 with the thicker sole) and I highly recommend them. They're not cheap but they will last you a long while. That's not really why I took a picture of my feet in sandals though. I was sitting in the park around the baseball field before Conor's game the other day and had something running through my mind. I'm not sure how widespread this word is but I saw it on the internets and it kind of stuck with me.
Yesterday was a gardening day for me and Liz. Well, after Mass and naps, we got out into the yard and I finished putting together these tomato cages I wanted to put around the tomatoes that Liz planted. We also transplanted some of the "wild" tomatoes that sprung up in the garden from last year and built a cage system for them as well along the back of the house. We're 'gonna have a heap 'o 'maters this year I'm thinkin'.
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