“And above all, let them remember to build a life as if it were a work of art. Just to be is a blessing. Just to live is holy”
- Rabbi Heschel

The answers [to health problems] must include imbuing people with a sense of personal self-worth, a sense of being needed or loved, an ability to influence and control their own environment, and an ability to manage their own problems.”

-Trevor Hancock, in Why Warriors Lie Down and Die, Richard Trudgen

Although, I reckon this could relate to way more than health problems, all sorts of problems. I’m sometimes amazed by my own inability to recognise other peoples ability to deal with their lives. But I can amaze myself in many ways.

When we went to see Leunig talk there was a woman who told us a story about parenting and how someone taught their kids to, when meeting anyone, to look for what that person was better at than them. I thought that was a great idea. I think once you can see someone’s ability to do something better than you you have a whole different level of respect. And I don’t reckon even just kids should do that. I want to do that better too.

Church was really delightful this morning.

In the last little while I have found so much money on the ground. Literally just notes on the ground in public traffic-ked spaces. I found a $20 note on my walk to uni one day and then a week later I found $50 in one of the areas near Pitt St Mall. I was with other people and I started getting scared of the $50 note. As if I was cursed or something. I didn’t want that responsibility.

But $70 in a couple of weeks! That’s just too strange. I think I found a $2 coin too, but it felt like absolutely nothing…Hoepfully that streak has stopped now.

I once before in my life found $50 on the ground and it’s been stories for years and years…but now it’s just like a common occurence, hardly a worthwhile story when it becomes that common!

We had feared that Amigito was dead. But today, Amigo started doing the same thing as Amigito looked like. Except that Amigo’s outside body is dead, but he’s still wriggling. So he is cocooning. It’s so exciting. Our big caterpillar is growing up.

I hope that he turns into a moth for the house warming. The other good news is, I don’t think Amigito was dead. I feel much less bad about the death of Amigito if he wasn’t really dead. Although I am mildly concerned as to what this new found evidence may do to Tom’s sermon illustration of knowing something is dead and relating it to Amigito. Because we just thought and assumed he was dead when he may actually not have been. I think this definitely weakens the illustration for “knowing” something is dead.

But…maybe it doesn’t matter so much. We should rejoice, Amigito didn’t die. Perhaps it’s a great illustration, it’s like the resurrection.

I’m sick.

Bother.

I know I’m a bit late on the uptake, but, I saw Jaime on Monaday night. I liked it mucho. And I love the fact that it was at the state theatre. It’s such a beautiful theatre and so intimate. I felt happy after the concert and it tipped over into yesterday tambien. It was one of those concerts I’m enjoying more with time for it to distill in my mind, it’s still good even afterwards. I’m still basking in the fun and joy.

I’m very blessed, because I also got to go and see Michael Leunig speak and discuss things with us on Saturday. It was a very special occasion. He says all sorts of things that resonate with my soul. It’s refreshing to hear things that resonate with your soul. It helps me to keep going.

I also decided that with my uni work I wouold just embrace the mess of it. And it worked out A-OK. (despite it’s mess)

Tea time. I’m thinking of having a tea partee sometime. It crossed my mind the other day, why haven’t I had one? So strange.

I never knew grammar was so complex. We have been learning the indirect object pronouns in Spanish at the moment. It’s logical enough, but everytime you try and put it into practice it somehows baffles me.

It’s about figuring out the indirect receiver of an action (which is a very confusing and bad explanation of what it is really). We are so clever. We do it in English all the time without thinking about it. But we don’t ever realise we even do such things until we have to do them in a completely different order in another language.

The letterbox was over-flow-ing today. Wow. So many packages I tell you. It was the bigegst delight and honour to bring in the bundle. I got 3 packages all the way from Central Australia. I knew they were coming, but it was still great to get not only 1 package but 3.
They are CD’s from CAT. I’ve been informed to listen to them over a cup of tea. I don’t think that should be problem. I think I can adhere to that request sufficiently.

This was so cool. I moved out of my room via my window. I even moved my bed out the window. Some things didn’t fit though. From the day I moved into that house I love my window, right down to the last day I lived there.