Sunday, October 13, 2002

People bring their children ages 3 and up to a Catechesis of the Good Shepherd program, they bring them to the Atrium and then they get the kid home and hold their breaths waiting for the kid to utter some profound truth about his or her relationship with God.  So during lunch today, Maggie impales a bread crust onto the end of a pretzel stick and looks at it and says, "it's the shepherd carrying a sheep on his shoulders! " In creating the Good Shepherd program, these two Italian women, Sofia Cavalletti and Gianna Gobbi, just pared down the different images and language of Catholic teaching until they got down to the core images that would reverberate around in the heads of young children.  The image of the Good Shepherd going out and finding his lost sheep and carrying it back on his shoulders is one of those images.  I think Maggie helped prove the case.  9:58:51 PM    comment []

We went walking in the Wood Lake Nature Center in Richfield tonight.  When we got done we found our car with a window smashed out.  Our piss and shit encrusted diaper bag was gone!   We had to wait around for the cops and call our insurance company.  Maggie was trying to make sense of it all. "who broke our window?  Why did they break our window?  Who took our diaper bag?  We have to go get that guy!  We have to find the diaper bag!  " I explained that the guy who took it was like swiper the fox on Dora the Explorer.  That helped, but on Dora, they always stop swiper and Maggie wanted to chase the guy down and feed him his tongue.    On any given night someone is at the local super america vacuuming shattered auto glass off of the front seat of their car.  Tonight it was me.  If you like vacuuming, there is nothing quite so satisfying as vacuuming auto glass.     I have a great idea for an internet company:  You park your car or bicycle in a place and wait in the bushes with a bunch of dudes with sticks and chains wearing Disney masks.  Then, when a thief strikes, you all jump out and just stomp the shit out of him.  Then, because you filmed it all, you start selling the footage over the internet.  12:33:08 AM    comment []