It was a quiet week-end, the kind of week-end where we both had lots of grading to do, and so we didn't do much in the way of making plans. We got some work done around the house, the constant upkeep kind of work that comes with having a house that has a yard and a pool, and I got some sorting done on Friday night.
Yesterday I led all 3 services at church, which went well. I was lucky--I had a good text: turning the other cheek, which I taught as resistance text (thank you Walter Wink!). For more on yesterday's approach, see this post on my theology blog.
I got a bit of writing done, and the plotting that often happens before the writing was also going on in my head.
I've been reading some Neil Gaimon before I launch into the next big reading project with my reading buddy friend (who is also my Hindu writer friend): Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows, which I've heard recommended as a book with interesting insight to our political times. When I was in the library to get that book, I found a collection of Gaimon's nonfiction, which is almost too complete. Some of the speeches interest me, while the introductions to various books only interest me if I've heard of the book.
My friend had recommended a Gaimon short story to me, so I got a collection of his short stories. It didn't have the one my friend recommended ("Chivalry"). But I did read "The Man Who Forgot Ray Bradbury"--who can resist that title?
I want to remember that dinner a few months ago when my friend told me she'd been reading Neil Gaimon's short stories. I misunderstood and thought that Neil Diamond had turned his creative skills to short stories, which struck me as curious but not impossible.
Throughout the week-end we cooked simple meals of burritos and nachos. I did some baking for our school's chocolate potluck tomorrow--more on that later. I'll be interested to discover how my Mississippi Mud cake turned out. It's a recipe from the 70's that I copied long ago. It calls for things like 1 jar of marshmallow fluff and 1 box powdered sugar--here's hoping I got the measurements right. Of course, it won't realy matter in this gooey decadence of a cake.
And so, the week-end comes to an end. Let me get ready for today.
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I am intrigued by your project of reading Deathly Hallows for the politics. I have wondered if immersing themselves in the Harry Potter books will help a generation think about protest and justice and standing up to fight for what is right. (I also wonder how many kids encountering them now that the whole series exists will finish it. It's pretty daunting. When they were doled out one book every few years, there was an excitement to read the next book and be in on the conversation.)
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