A Commonplace Book

I thought this picture was precious. The little blue bird, like me, is waiting for spring

I also found this “vampire” article from Oprah.com (yikes, I know) through CNN.com, and it seemed to compliment (or would it be complement, Nina?) my “Girl Talk” post.

Enjoy friends, and I’m guessing that no one really wants to hear my emerging theory of how LOST’s Desmond is, in fact, a Christ figure.

(Little Gwennie actually made this connection when she saw, in a children’s Easter book, a picture of Jesus coming out of the tomb. She said, “Mommy, Jesus came out of the tomb like Desmond came out of the hatch.” First of all…mother. of. year. for letting my four-year-old watch LOST. Second, the lit nerd in me is already textually analyzing LOST and building a mental outline of the similarities between the Desmond/hatch and Jesus/tomb stories. I may even develop a LOST theory based on my findings)

So, because I don’t want to lose my six or so readers, I’ll be back when I write something you’ll want to read.

(UPDATE:  Desmond, aka Henry Ian Cusick, WAS Jesus in The Gospel of John the Baptist ! Thanks Anonymous Blue Girl friend!)

A Grandfather from the Cherokee Nation was talking with his grandson.

“A fight is going on inside me,” he said to the boy.

“It is a terrible fight and it is between two wolves.”

“One wolf is evil and ugly: He is anger, envy, war, greed, self-pity, sorrow, regret, guilt, resentment, inferiority, lies, false pride, superiority, selfishness and arrogance.”

“The other wolf is beautiful and good: He is friendly, joyful, peace, love, hope, serenity, humility, kindness, benevolence, justice, fairness, empathy, generosity, true, compassion, gratitude, and deep vision.”

“This same fight is going on inside you, and inside every other human as well.”

The grandson paused in deep reflection because of what his grandfather had just said. Then he finally cried out; “Oyee! Grandfather, which wolf will win?”

The elder Cherokee replied, “The wolf that you feed.”