When I look out my office window, I can see the ducks playing around in the river. They're pretty cute. And strange. They like to hang out around the bridge that crosses into our front yard and seem quite impervious to cars driving over. But if you walk over the bridge, the whole flock scatters in a swishing swoop, as if they suspect you're looking to make Sunday dinner of their legs and breasts.
I've brought Scott to work already this morning. Next up: shower and get ready for church. We've decided to do our pre-marital counseling with the pastor of our small (fifty members at most) church rather than the class at one of the larger churches. Somehow the concept of having a class for that sort of thing just doesn't make sense to me. Our pastor is fresh out of seminary, and we're his first pre-marital counseling case. I think that it'll be good, even though he's only been married for four years. We both get along with him really well.
Interesting conversations Scott and I have had lately:
-Hypothesis: empires fall because they get lazy. Once you have control of the world, you don't have to work for it. The people of less developed cultures are often more imaginative and inventive because they have to figure out how to do things that we have technology for.
-Cabot (the Italian explorer who discovered Newfoundland for King Henry VII of England) is pronounced Cabeau, not Cabot. (The next day I went to school and ashamedly told my grade nines that I had taught them wrong.)
That's all I can think of right now. Time for the shower!
7 comments:
I disagree! Empires don't fall because they get lazy, they fall because they believe themselves to be impervious to attack. Look at Rome. They weren't lazy, they were superbly decadent and arrogant about their superiority and when "The Hordes" came they weren't scared because they completely underestimated them and then they were dead and part of a feudal system that lasted for 700 years or so. So its not laziness that gets you, its the sense of superiority. Its a good comparison to the US right now and why I sometimes think that it won't be a country in 50 years time because way too many people think the US is untouchable (not to mention the Zionists among us)
Sorry
Maybe lazy was the wrong word. Overconfident?
A friend of my family's read a book that suggests that the Chinese were actually the first to discover Newfoundland/labrador area. According to this book, there is a current that would carry a beach ball straight to (I believe it was) Cape Breton (or similar). The Chinese were said to have a HUGE navy, with much bigger ships than Cabot. I found this very interesting. Perhaps it was the Chinese who first fished from the shores of Canada!?
hey margo, are you as sore as scott? i don't think you're supposed to exercise until you see spots. i'm just sayin'
Sarah, no, I'm not as sore as Scott. I was a little sore yesterday, but it was good sore, like you can feel that you've exercised, but can still move freely sore.
Miriam: very interesting. Would that theory be separate from the ice-passage-Canadian aboriginals-are-from-Asia theory?
Yup, I think so.
perhaps the word is: careless.
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