It's going okay. Kind of. I had a big fence of lots of sharp pointy sticks but the neighbour didn't like that. He told me to spray vinegar. It only partly worked. A few days ago some cat started digging and ripped up a few of the little plants. I put it all back in place - thankfully no cat poo. So I guess that's a bonus. Well, anyway, the sticks are back - just slightly neater. Try that now cats! If only it worked on all the pigeon feathers (man across the street feeds them - I hate it, they always sit on the wires. Feathers everywhere. Flapping whenever they get scared. They all take off and it's like a ricochet in an alleyway.
"I think we (Gen X) hate spoilt Ys even more than we hate the boomers," Birmingham says. "We're so looking forward to seeing them get run over by the coming recession."Bitter eh. I think he puts it quite well:
"Those boomers will hang on till their dying breath. And then Y will sweep in at the funeral looking for the keys to the house and the car. When I raise these issues in my blog writing, the X-ers who comment all do so with deeply bitter black humour. We tend to think of ourselves standing mute in front of history's big black tsunami; there's a sense of pointlessness to organised political activity that stops us from getting too worked up. We're tired. We've been tired from the age of 17."
The other day Pete pointed out to me the hymn Come Thou Fount done by Mars Hill band, E-Pop. It was written by a dude called Robert Robinson (who had an awesome permed mullet by the looks of it). I've really been digging it and Pete and I have had a number of conversations about church music since then which have also been cool. I'm starting to make a list of songs I like so I can use them later on when I'm all grown up with a church of my own.O to grace how great a debtor
Daily I’m constrained to be!
Let Thy goodness, like a fetter,
Bind my wandering heart to Thee.
Prone to wander, Lord, I feel it,
Prone to leave the God I love;
Here’s my heart, O take and seal it,
Seal it for Thy courts above.
Here's the 'before'. It got too dark for an 'after' photo by the time I was finished so that'll have to wait.
Our baby carrots are getting all grown up - these two were even getting a bit cosy! I'm enjoying mini gardening. It feels like playing cos it's all kind of like toy size.
On Sunday I looked at Henri Blocher's Original Sin: Illuminating the Riddle. I'd read this earlier this year for a doctrine book review. Having read Turretin (who Blocher interacts quite a bit with) and a couple of other things on the doctrine, I think I can understand a bit more of what he's trying to do.
Today I stalled a bit but I read a couple of chapters from Paul Ricoeur's The Symbolism of Evil. It's exactly what I think of as academic postmodern writing. In some ways it's a bit ridiculous, but he has some helpful comments to make.
Today Suds and I were in the Nathaniel Jones room talking about a subject very close to my heart - the Bruny Island Cheese Co. About 10 minutes later Suds had signed us up as members of their cheese club. It means that 8 times a year they'll send us 1-1.5kg of cheese, which is pretty much the best thing that I can imagine. It was a pretty exciting morning for me.Once we receive your order, we then send the cheese to you on a pre-advised day by overnight courier (although a few areas may require a two day service), packed in a specially designed cool-box with information sheets about the cheese and how to use, store and enjoy the cheeses.It's a serious business shipping cheese. I think the descriptions of special packaging and information sheets and courier service all just hype it up for me. It's a special day when the cheese comes.
‘[It] is the Helen whom they so ardently love and for whom they do not hesitate to fight as for their altars and firesides. It is of great importance, therefore, that the disciples of true and genuine grace should oppose themselves strenuously to these deadly errors and so build up the misery of man and the necessity of grace that the entire cause of destruction should be ascribed to man and the whole glory of salvation to God alone.’
This is the question: Discuss the doctrine of original sin in the light of this observation: “The heart of the matter is the doctrine of autonomy, which broadly speaking teaches that anything that is not in its entirety the undetermined act of the agent is, to the extent that it is not, a denial of the agent's integrity” (C. Gunton)
