tim and i had a great v-day celebration and weekend. what was tim's wonderful attempt to flatter and dote on his wife, became an improved late night. Floataway Cafe provided us with a late night dinner at 9:30 with two complementary desserts as a way to bribe the last customers to leave the restaurant without too many complaints. yet the amount of money you spend at one of these places can make anyone upset by the mere suggestion of leaving quickly. We grabbed coffees to wake ourselves up at our favorite, the Majestic, a little true Denny’s style dinner on Ponce. the coffee was needed for the highlight of the night, a midnight showing of the interactive Rocky Horror Picture Show. It was quite entertaining. Car's warning about attending this strange event not knowing the Time Warp, who's the 'slut' and the 'asshole' could have scared any 13 year old from ever wanting to partake. It was, however, tim's first show ever, and mine in the theater. there is nothing like having a live show of men dressed in drag, everyone singing and throwing paper machete, while the movie projects behind their 15-minutes-of-fame-pit-stage. This is a unique experience, freakish is not exaggerating nor degrading, it's the point of the bizarre.
we finally tasted the frogtown wines of GA and took a few home to let sit and enjoy at a later date.
Finally, for our assignment.
On the left side is a reading assignment 'lent reading' for each week. While it felt like madrigal at 'rocky' this weekend, ash wed has passed, our heads have (whether figuratively or literally) been anointed with the charred palm leaves from the previous years' remembrance of when Christ entered the city on a mule, welcoming our resurrection by dying and rising for us first. Maybe we'll come back to Deuteronomy afterwards, seeing how we're only reading Mark 14-16. Mom said her church is reading the Passion and i thought, due to the season, it would be a good thing for us to read. Each week we'll read a different chapter, which will be posted to the side. Comments are welcome in the comment box of that same week, prattling back and forth until we get a new chapter.
I guess this is where we should comment on the Mark. If not let me know.
Anyway, there is this book of daily meditations that Bob and I have been going through. It's really quite interesting. One side of the page has some historic references and the other page has a verse from Mark and with comments. It started on the Sunday before Lent. It's only gotten today to Mark 14:21. So I thought that I might comment on something we read this week.
Some of the readings in this book encourages almsgiving as one of the traditional practices of lent. I particularly liked a couple of the quotes, "The earth is the Lord's and everything in it" "Treat the goods of this earth with a free spirit. Enjoy them and make sure that others can enjoy them too."
And another one I liked was "We've heard the saying, It takes a heap of living to make a house a home. "Well, it takes a heap of giving to make this earth a home for everyone".
These comments were written about the woman who apparently "wasted" the perfumed oil on Jesus. So these comments were made to point out the fact that the spirit of generous is an uplifting experienc and should not be considered a "waste". That the woman in Bethany was being generous to Jesus. It also mentions that this act by the woman at Bethany is fortelling the death of Jesus, because he died so late on Friday he was not able to be anointed before his burial.
That's some of my thoughts that I'd like to share. Love, Mom
Posted by: susan poston at February 16, 2005 8:03 PMthat's interesting about the oil needing to be anointed before his death. I don't think i knew that before now. I looked it up and found someone's quote:
'This incident is significant in that it is
unintentionally prophetic. By her action in
anointing Jesus, Mary is proclaiming her
gratitude and love, but what she does not know
is that she is anointing Him both as Messiah
('the anointed one')and for His burial.'
Also, they say that those oils were worth a years wages.
Ari, Where did the "magenta" come from in the title? Mom
Posted by: susan poston at February 18, 2005 3:13 PMCar, do you know where Magenta comes from?
Posted by: ari at February 21, 2005 7:19 PMShould I? I don't.
Posted by: Carlee at February 23, 2005 7:26 PM