My wife and me dressed as a kind of hipster interpretation of Santa and Mrs. Claus in front of a Christmas tree at at airport.
Merry Christmas from Mrs. Claus and me. /cc @swimflythrive.bsky.social
I’d forgotten these!!! 💯 adding them to the “home from college” watchlist with my daughter.
I have zero idea what any of this means but still liked it, as is appropriate for my wifely role.
🙃 I respect that opinion. The movies were imperfect to be sure.
Deep in my Christmas festivities research and planning era and TIL this movie is on Amazon Prime and how did I not know about it???
www.amazon.com/Mrs-Santa-Cl...
And I haven't read the Emily of New Moon books. Sounds like I should!
I thought it too dark and revisionist at first. But a friend shifted my thinking when she observed it was more like modern fan fiction. Then it was 🤯🔥.
Same. 🙂👋♥️
Ohhh- say more! A friend and I had been trading thoughts about AoGG and the “Anne with an E” Netflix series. I get the feeling there’s more to her than her books reveal.
The day after Thanksgiving with @swimflythrive.bsky.social
Happy pie for breakfast day.
"So I give thanks for our deep coinherence
Inwoven in the web of God’s own grace,
Pulling us through the grave and gate of death.
I thank him for the truth behind appearance,
I thank him for his light in every face,
I thank him for you all, with every breath.
3/3
"Our interweavings on a deeper level,
The modes of life embodied souls can share,
The unguessed blessings of our being here,
The warp and weft that no one can unravel.
2/3
Thanksgiving -
Malcolm Guite
"Thanksgiving starts with thanks for mere survival,
Just to have made it through another year
With everyone still breathing. But we share
So much beyond the outer roads we travel;
1/3
@tlberglund.bsky.social says take a train to Heidelberg. 🙂🇩🇪
SO REAL.
Pouring rain on all the obscure musical acts and float handlers in the Macys Thanksgiving Day parade really turns the “dystopian drug trip” dial up to 100. 🙃🌧️☔️
It begins….
Friend!!!! 👋♥️
Last week I found myself putting Handel’s “Hallelujah Chorus” on repeat blast mode, which is uncharacteristically early for me.
This explains why.
#ChristtheKingSunday
Post script - not sure why @sometimesalight hasn't made her way here yet. Might have something to do with her being enrolled at Duke getting some serious theological education or something.
Adding this:My question is what to make of the many purportedly serious theologians and/or theological influencers who so uncritically interested / affirming of him in the first place.
Maybe our assumptions about what makes for a serious theologian worth following and heeding are a problem too. 6/6
"To quote the classic film, Ratatouille, "Anyone can cook"--but you still actually have to be able to cook. Just being "anyone" does not make you a better cook than a trained chef any more than being a trained chef means that you can cook." 5/6 (@sometimesalight)
"It is absolute(ly) possible that an expert can get so lost in their subject that they forget how it relates to other things or that they become beholden to establishment thinking w/in the field... but you know what doesn't fix that problem? Hacks & amateurs....4/6
"This is the problem I have to anti-expertise bias of this current moment. It presumes that the person who dabbles in a field has more insight than those who have sacrificed years of their lives to it. ...3/6
"Reminder: While too many folks are hobbyist theologians, there are actually people for whom theology is serious work requiring more from them than simply forming & voicing an opinion about God or sacred text... 2/6
Sharing @sometimesalight's thoughts on this because, as per the usual, they're worth careful consideration. 1/6 🧵
That is so hard, and yet what a good man for doing what’s hard for your sake.I used to experience the opposite. It was deeply damaging- to the whole family.
“Gray rock” the trolls. Especially trying to justify a different opinion to people who refuse to listen and learn.
