Peony Moss: September 2005 Archives

Peony's husband Posco: I had a funny dream last night. I dreamed that Hambet had a little pet lamb.

Peony: That's cute! ...I dreamed you had a blog. Or did I dream that?

Posco: Should I start a blog?

Peony: Heck yes! I'll even set it up for you.

Posco: If I did have a blog I could blog about interesting things, not boring things like the two sleepy mommies blog about.

Peony: (refuses to take the bait.)

Posco: But what would I call it? "Dyspeptic Mutterings" is already taken.

and one more thing

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To all the people who've been asking me this month about when I'm going to have my "next" baby:

Stop. Please, just stop. I know you mean well, but it would really, really help me if you would just SHUT UP.

Either that, or don't get offended when I start avoiding you.

Thank you. That is all.

help!

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Ever had that experience where you suddenly think of someone out of the blue -- perhaps someone you used to know whom you hadn't thought of in years?

Is there a name for that experience?

And did I dream it, or did C.S. Lewis once write something about this kind of thing?

Join the Legion of Faithbots!

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Bob the Ape's come up with with the lyrics to the march.

Now all we need is the tune. Am I correct in thinking that a tune with an 8787 meter would work?

That stupid Da Vinci Code movie

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on Saturday, I was out taking a stroll with dear Mr Moss and little Hambet, and we saw a poster for that DaVinci Code movie.

I had high hopes when I heard that Sir Ian McKellan had been cast for the movie. I was hoping that he would be cast as Silas, the albino Opus Dei monk-assasin and that he would steal the whole movie, the same way Alan Rickman subverted "Prince of Thieves." But alas, it was not to be; Paul Bettany is to play Silas.

So maybe all is not lost. Bettany was cast as Maturin in "Master and Commander" and I didn't think the character they gave him to play had anything to do with the Maturin of the books. So maybe there will be a really clever, subversive screenwriter on the project who will give Silas all the funny lines.

More Than a Matter of Habit

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Today's Post has an article in the Metro section (B9) about the Dominican Sisters of Mary, Mother of the Eucharist. The article's not online; it's from the Religion News Service, and you can get a taste of it here. ("Traditional Order of Nuns Grows, Defying Trends.")

It's a pretty good article, touching on the rapid growth of the community (seventeen postulants expected this month!)and quoting the sisters on their vocations, their life of prayer, and their apostolates. It mentions that some of the sisters, when discerning their vocations,

"rejected religious orders that revised or moved away from traditional ways, including the habit, after the Second Vatican Council in the 1960s. The council relaxed some of the more strict, traditional rituals in the Catholic Church."

Wow! Intelligent young women embracing traditional religious life! What's not to love? Obviously, we have to be balanced, though, and find the obligatory naysayer quote. Luckily, we don't have to look too hard to find it. The article continues:

Some church observers, however, question what they see as an attempt by small but wealthy and politically powerful groups to turn the faith clock back to a supposed golden age.

'There's always been a rear-guard action among Catholics who don't like Vatican II,' said the Rev. Richard P. McBrien, former chairman of the Department of Theology at the University of Notre Dame and a long-time observer of Catholic life in the United States.

Oh, brother. Let's take another look at this, shall we?

Some church observers, however,

Observers with an "s"? I only see one person quoted.

...question what they see as an attempt by small but wealthy and politically powerful groups

meaning Tom Monaghan? (Monaghan donated a pile of money to the Sisters' building fund, and his foundation built one of the academies where the Sisters teach)

...to turn the faith clock back to a supposed golden age.

Okay, so Tom Monaghan and his legion of faithbots kidnapped and brainwashed 64 women into becoming a legion of reactionary nuns who wear traditional habits, pray a lot, and teach in elementary schools -- and that's "politically powerful"?

"There's always been a rear-guard action among Catholics who don't like Vatican II,"

Rear-guard? The Sisters were founded in 1997. One of the Sisters quoted is 27. Last time I checked, someone who was born in the late 'seventies would have spent all her life in the territory occupied by the Spirit of Vatican II.

...said the Rev. Richard P. McBrien,

Ah.

...former

woohoo!

...chairman of the Department of Theology at the University of Notre Dame and a long-time observer of Catholic life in the United States.

An observer -- as opposed to a participant?

Hey, Father McBrien, after you're done on The DaVinci Code movie, maybe you could see if there are any other movies that need your special expertise. Maybe Spielberg will consider making Jurassic Park IV?

UPDATE: GMTA -- Jeff Miller has something up on this article too.

The Katrina blogburst

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Late to post, but I wanted to do my part for the Katrina blogburst. Half a million people who need new homes -- Jesus, have mercy!

I sent my first Katrina contribution to Catholic Charities USA

More hurricane relief agencies:
The Red Cross
Mercy Corps

More on the blogburst, including a big list of relief organizations

The evacuees who sheltered in the Superdome are being moved to the Houston Astrodome. Many of these evacuees are children.
The Houston Society of St Vincent de Paul is organizing children's relief in The Largest Sleepover in Texas. They're getting together new sleeping bags, pillows, PJs and slippers, and crayons and coloring books for these displaced children. (thanks to Amy Welborn for this link)


Di Fattura Caslinga: Pansy's Etsy Shop
The Sleepy Mommy Shoppe: Stuff we Like
(Disclaimer: We aren't being compensated to like this stuff.
Any loose change in referral fees goes to the Feed Pansy's Ravenous Teens Fund.)


Pansy and Peony: The Two Sleepy Mommies



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