I feel we're about due for a new adventure... I wonder what it'll be...

Hello all,

All you sweet little pieces of sunshine - meant in an entirely non-ironical fashion.

I did some (fiction) writing yesterday, for the first time in ages. It was a good feeling. A very very good feeling, like happiness. :)

I wish my life had a soundtrack, written by Henry Mancini, Murray Gold or Alan Menken.

I haven't uploaded any phone photos for ages - coz I lost the little cord thingy that attaches said phone to the computer. But I found another cord... so here's my recent life in pictures...

So I haven't been doing a whole lot lately.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sGXqUSpyyb0&feature=related

Nice things of late:
Warm pajamas & dressing gown
Hot chocolate
Having Tay & Jay sleep over
Disney films
Yet another velveteen jacket - this one has ribbons and lace!
Making soup
Pregant bellies everywhere - particularly the one on my mother
Having the use of a car - heavenly!

I feel we're about due for a new adventure... I wonder what it'll be...

"Oscar Wilde said that sunsets were not valued because we could not pay for sunsets. But Oscar Wilde was wrong; we can pay for sunsets. We can pay for them by not being Oscar Wilde."

- G. K. Chesterton

Been reading a lot of Oscar Wilde lately. I completely and utterly don't understand him. In the slightest bit. He's sort of one of those writers whose sincerity is buried beneath a gazillion layers of wit and sarcasm and cleverness. If you sit down and read his plays and his fairytales and his poetry and his love letters all in one go like I did the other day you'll be completely bewildered and dismayed by the shallowness and depth alternating in such quick, clever beats. I know I'm rather homophobic (and freely admit it: if I'm going to be a coward, at least I'll be an honest one) because I just don't know how to deal with the issue of homosexuality. I (don't want to offend anyone! At all! Sorry!) don't know anybody who openly struggles with it, and don't know what I'd do if I did. My motto is 'love everyone because God does', but I don't know (probably because I've only ever dealt with this issue theoretically and not practically) how to specifically do that, coz I don't believe in pretending everything's OK when it isn't. If homosexuality is condemned by the Bible and biology I'm not going to sit by and say it's an acceptable lifestyle to offer to our children, but I really don't want to hurt more people's feelings than I have to. One of the guys from my church is a male nurse whose colleagues are mainly 'on the other bus': he says that all of them have at least attempted suicide. That's a demographic I don't want to go about hurting with my insensitivity.
Wow, cleaning out the dark corners of my mind in public here.
I hope I haven't engendered the hatred of any of my beloved readers.

All the same, I wish Oscar Wilde would explain himself. His stuff was so darn good. And so darn contradictory. And so bizarre. What was going on there?

So never will wine-red rose or white,

Petal by petal, fall

On that stretch of mud and sand that lies

By the hideous prison-wall,

To tell the men who tramp the yard

That God's Son died for all...

The Chaplain would not kneel to pray

By his dishonoured grave:

Nor mark it with that blessed Cross

That Christ for sinners gave,

Because the man was one of those

Whom Christ came down to save.

- The Ballad of Reading Gaol, Oscar Wilde

The man was a genius!

And now for something totally different...