seven quick takes

Last updated on: November 3, 2015 at 12:27 pm by Anne Kennedy

seven quick takes 2015-11-03T12:27:42-04:00 Anne Kennedy

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Woke up in this last hour worried about my parent’s cat who was horribly injured this week by a big dog. At last report he had a fifty fifty chance of making it. He’s a good Christian cat named after and blessed on the feast day of St Frances and so I hope you’ll all pray for him.
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Our first week back at serious school did, in fact, occur which is a glorious triumph when considered in the whole scope of human affairs and not taken by itself in its own isolated sliver of reality (can you tell that I’m writing this at four in the morning?). After the initial shock, particularly on the part of Alouicious, they all managed to all calm down, stop the infernal screaming, and do a tiny bit of work. The best and most exasperating part of the week was struggling to satiate little ‘nonverbal’ Marigold’s new and sudden desire to try to learn to read. Basically, it’s not really her turn and she should go pour cups of water back and forth in the sink. But the all out brawl–lying on the floor screaming and sobbing and heaving when I said she had to wait a minute to practice letters–has made me rethink the order of my life. I’m delighted, of course. And also, I’m pretty sure I’m going to loose my mind.
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If you are casting about for an order in which to read the bible in 2013 (because, like me, it takes you a week or two to realize that the old really has gone away and the new is jamming itself down your throat) I really recommend reading it in chronological order. Hat tip, several years ago, to Homemaking Through the Church Year, who recommended it so highly. I join her in this recommendation. And because, in 2012, I was constantly behind I was always listening to vast swaths of scripture at one go, like, the whole book of Ezekiel, or all the Pauline Epistles. And then finally, the whole book of Revelation, which remarkably (and I assume you know this already because you’re smarter than me) recapitulates the totality of scripture in this vast cosmic intense way like when, in The Last Battle, all the Sons and Daughters of Adam and Eve keep coming on old familiar landscapes which are, somehow, made new and rich and satisfying again. Just as there are so many pictures of Jesus in the Old Testament, the Book of Revelation is chockablock full of everything before it. Seems stupid to write it out loud when I’ve ‘known’ that before. But I saw it in a new and richer way and it was wonderful.
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As I was trying to spell the word ‘recapitulate’ just now Matt went out to unlock the church for the men’s breakfast and came in with the mail from yesterday. How is it that we didn’t even have time to check our own box attached to our own house for our own mail? I don’t know, I didn’t have a free second yesterday except to eat a piece of cheesecake alone in the church kitchen for breakfast because I didn’t have the intelligence to eat something at home before hauling all the kids and all their school work over there….where was I? Oh Yes! Matt just now plunked the mail on me which comprised a lovely Christmas card from England and a package from Nairobi by way of NJ which, when I cut it open gave up a plume of gorgeous turmeric. It smells amazing and is all settled all over everything in glorious richness. Thank you mommy! Cooking tonight will be more than usually enchanting.
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Matt maligns my love of ordinary curry powder but, since I’m already wildly recommending stuff, let me just impress upon you the heavenly delight that occurs when you lather ordinary little bits of tilapia with olive oil, salt, and curry powder which you then bake at 350 for ten minutes or so, depending on the thickness of the fish, while you sauté an onion, a garlic, some green and red pepper, a handful of frozen peas and a handful of corn also liberally adorned with curry powder and then pile it all over the fish and back in the oven until the fish itself flakes white and perfect. And then your babies, who don’t know any better, gather it in like the Wide Mouth Frog and also go ahead and help themselves to more of everything.
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Which brings to my mind that long ago moment when my own mother, who has a brilliant way with fish, accidentally breaded fish very much like tilapia in cake crumbs instead if bread crumbs. The result was so surprising I can taste it now, as I write this, and see the expression on her face, and the horror in her eyes, at the first bite.
seven
There’s a baby up. That’s too bad. She is shouting and rearranging the pillows and making a wreck of everything. I guess I’ll get up and do some stuff. Amongst them continuing to pray for that poor cat, and for Jen of Conversion Diary who, though doing better, needs lots and lots of prayer.

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