Here is a fun little game I found on Melissa'a blog (thanks!)
If you're reading this, please leave a comment on this post of a memory that you and I have had together. It doesn't matter if you've known me for a short time or a long time, anything that you remember! Next, re-post these instructions on your blog and see how many people leave a memory about you.
I'm excited to drum up some comments as I've been absent for awhile in both reading and writing blog posts.
...but I came back! (Michael, are you reading this?)
Anyway, have fun with this. I'm looking forward to hearing the goofy things you all remember about me!
Also, if you leave a memory about me, I'll go to your blog and leave one about you.
On your mark... get set... comment!
Labor Day, Play Day
Today Michael got a new bike. Nathanael sucked the juice out of an orange. And I got to go to the grocery store by myself!
It may seem that I'm being sarcastic, but actually, this was a great day for me.
The grocery store did happen to be the Whole Foods Market on Denny in downtown Seattle. It is huge for either a city grocery store or a health food store, and I had a hay day. This also came after the realization (in the car on the way there) that for me food isn't just for survival or familial duty--I love it.
I love to eat it, I love to prepare it, I love to think about ways to make it fun. I especially love to serve it to others. (And I really love it when they like it!)
Realizing that food is fun for me, somehow made it even more so. It allowed me to celebrate the new basil putting down roots on my windowsill, and the freshly ground flour in my freezer. (Thanks, Michael!) And now I feel empowered to roast the eggplant and summer squash from the farmer's market, and to plant lettuce for the end-of-the-summer season. I am ready to take on the Chicken Cacciatore my husband got excited about tonight* and prepare lunches and snack foods for a new week dawning.
Plus, now I have a dishwasher, so I get to have all the fun, and let an appliance clean up!
*I just learned this tidbit from Wikipedia. "Cacciatore means "hunter" in Italian. In cuisine, "alla cacciatora" refers to a meal prepared "hunter-style" with tomatoes, onions, mushrooms, herbs, often bell pepper, and sometimes wine."
Mormon Renaissance
It all started last month, when I convinced my sister to watch Nathanael so we could go to a local play my friend was involved in. Well, that friend ended up being the catalyst to a whole world of opportunity and ideas: New Play Project.
If you live in the Utah Valley area, I urge you to attend the next play. Submit a play of your own, audition, volunteer. Get involved in whatever way you choose, but get involved. This is an amazing project with talented people who care about making a difference in the world.
And they are.
So my friend pulled another surprise out for me recently. He sent me some interviews and asked me to read over them for a new magazine he's editing. So I read a bit, and made some suggestions, but I had no idea what was coming.
Wow.
Mormon Artist came out today. Ben wrote a short post about it. And there's a section at the end all about New Play Project and several of the key people.
But the title of my post comes from the essay of James Goldberg's at the beginning of the magazine. He talks about the Harlem Renaissance and how Langston Hughes started writing his ideas and they changed the world--even though he was only 18 and no one knew what would happen.
And then he makes the most amazing connection--we are in that place. "...none of this heritage is restricted to any ethnic group or country. Anyone can choose to adopt this heritage as part of their own identity. The whole world is getting less national and more global and Mormonism is one of the world’s first great post-national cultures."
And so we can choose to do what the writers of the Harlem Renaissance did--tell our stories. And as we tell them, they will be heard. And the telling and the hearing will change the world.
If you live in the Utah Valley area, I urge you to attend the next play. Submit a play of your own, audition, volunteer. Get involved in whatever way you choose, but get involved. This is an amazing project with talented people who care about making a difference in the world.
And they are.
So my friend pulled another surprise out for me recently. He sent me some interviews and asked me to read over them for a new magazine he's editing. So I read a bit, and made some suggestions, but I had no idea what was coming.
Wow.
Mormon Artist came out today. Ben wrote a short post about it. And there's a section at the end all about New Play Project and several of the key people.
But the title of my post comes from the essay of James Goldberg's at the beginning of the magazine. He talks about the Harlem Renaissance and how Langston Hughes started writing his ideas and they changed the world--even though he was only 18 and no one knew what would happen.
And then he makes the most amazing connection--we are in that place. "...none of this heritage is restricted to any ethnic group or country. Anyone can choose to adopt this heritage as part of their own identity. The whole world is getting less national and more global and Mormonism is one of the world’s first great post-national cultures."
And so we can choose to do what the writers of the Harlem Renaissance did--tell our stories. And as we tell them, they will be heard. And the telling and the hearing will change the world.
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