Thu 3 May 2007
For some reason my blog keeps disappearing.
Have you seen Deja Vu with Denzel Washington? I have seen it twice now, I think. Is it possible that that is an example of what Christian cinema could be? An underlying acknowledgement of the triune God, overtly Christian themes and Tim Powers-type story. I thought it was a great movie. I am pretty sure it wasn’t because I am the worst when it comes to movie recommendations and I have learned to keep my mouth shut, sorta.
Rick Saenz will not be publishing his magazine The Gospel Plow so he has given us permission to put our articles on our blogs. I wrote an article on agrarian weddings before I even knew that I had 2 weddings on the horizon. Sometime over the weekend, Lord willing and the creek don’t rise, I plan to publish that article on this blog.
Now for the disclaimer: Our 2 weddings are not going to be ‘agrarian’ weddings. They are going to be wonderful but neither wedding qualifies as agrarian in the sense that I picked up from working on the article last summer. An agrarian wedding would not need long months of preparation and the expense of the wedding would be shared among a community of believers. After watching the two weddings I am involved with unfold and all the stresses involved I am still hoping for a coming wedding revolution among Christians of a certain stripe.
Speaking of agrarianism, on my walk yesterday I came upon my 84yo neighbor in an overgrown field in his wheelchair. He was picking pokeweed for his supper. When he motored out of the field his wheelchair tipped back in the scariest manner. I told him to stay on the road and I would pick pokeweed. I can’t tell you how tickled I was to be picking pokeweed for his supper. I felt so unphilosophical. I did have a slight tinge of fear that maybe I was accidentally picking something poisonous along with the pokeweed. Blame it on too much Dorothy Sayers. My only other contact with pokeweed was when I had to give Timothy ipecac because he swallowed and unknown number of pokeberries. The number turned out to be 1. Come to think of it that is my only ipecac episode in 23 years, although I have called poison control more than once.
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Your blog did indeed disappear. I tried multiple times to get to it and thought the fault was my computer, so I cleaned out the history, etc. but to no avail.
Comment by Jeannine (May 3, 2007 @ 3:00 pm )
Aha! It wasn’t my reader malfunctioning after all! Glad your back, I look forward to reading the article about agrarian weddings, sounds fascinating!
If this ever posts, I keep getting an error message about the site exceeding its CPU quota or something. Maybe that’s part of the disappearing problem?
Comment by Kimbrah (May 3, 2007 @ 4:08 pm )
Cindy,
I was not 5 feet away, but oblivious because I was reading “Scarlett”. Another time, she thought an aerosol spray of Pine scented car freshener was binaca mouth spray and she sprayed it in her mouth 8O. The last was the funniest… she brushed her teeth with gyna-lotrimin 
… at least she didn’t get thrush! Of course when I called poison control, the phone was answered by a man… 
My poison control episodes have been many, and sometimes quite funny. Sarah alone had 3, once she made herself a tea party with Mr. Clean lemon scent.
Comment by Lora K. (May 3, 2007 @ 4:11 pm )
I seriously doubt anyone can top the gyna-lotrimin story !!
Once Timothy and Nicholas drank motor oil. We had just moved and during the day I had moved out of our motel to another motel and my dh didn’t know what city I had even moved to. He was waiting for me to pick him up from work when the boys drank the motor oil while I was looking at a house. I had to decide whether to pick up my husband 45 miles away or go to the ER. I decided they probably hadn’t had too much motor oil. Who would? Obviously this was pre-cellphone.
Comment by Cindy (May 3, 2007 @ 4:57 pm )
I’m amazed at how many “definitions” of agrarian I have come across while reading blogs. After I had come across it a few times I looked it up in the dictionary and it means basicly a farmer. Sooo what would an agrarian wedding BE like? Would there be dirt involved??Cows??
Comment by Patti (May 3, 2007 @ 6:21 pm )
Hi,
I’ve been to Huntsville, AL!! Twice I was priveleged to attend Martha Pullens School of Art Fashion (Heirloom Sewing). Didn’t get to see too much though, I was in class most of the time.
Comment by Donna (May 3, 2007 @ 6:49 pm )
Patti,
I was looking into weddings among traditional agrarian cultures like the Amish.
Comment by Cindy (May 3, 2007 @ 9:32 pm )
If you haven’t seen it, Mary Jane has her daughter’s wedding in her book, it took place in a hay field. It was quite beautiful, though simple.
Comment by Lora K. (May 4, 2007 @ 3:17 am )
I have seen Deja Vu and liked it - a lot. You might also want to check out Man on Fire, another Denzel Washington movie. It also has a very Christian theme. However as a disclaimer I saw it a few years ago and can’t remember what objectional material may or may not be in it. I don’t like to give movie recommendations either, but thought it interesting that two Denzel Washington movies I have seen and really liked were overtly Biblically themed.
Comment by Kim (May 5, 2007 @ 7:00 am )
Your walks don’t sound the least bit boring…hmm, I think i’ll take a walk & pick some asparagus from our little garden (i love eggs & NJ asparagus)Nice chatting with you,Cindy,maybe I’ll catch up with you later;I had a few more questions for you.
Comment by terri (May 5, 2007 @ 7:02 am )
I’m really looking forward to the agrarian wedding article. When I think agrarian, I think in terms of “community” (read “covenant”) more so than mules, dirts, and cows. I see so many people planning weddings and spending SO much money, SO much time, getting angry with each other, and worrying more about so-called “protocol” (read “the way everyone else expects it to be done”) than about the fact that these are two people joining together in the name of Christ! I can do nothing more than shake my head and pray that I will have a clue when it comes time for my children to marry ~ which is probably not much more than a year from now! (One of them, that is. Not all of them.)
We’ve had to call poison control twice ~ for the same child both times. Once he ate vitamins, but I didn’t know how many. (I mean, who knows how many are left in the bottle?) Then, he took one of my blood pressure pills. Actually, my oldest son gave it to him by accident, thinking it was his Singulair, which is allergy/asthma medicine. (And, tell my why I have high blood pressure again??) But God is good. Everything was OK in both situations.
Comment by Linda (May 5, 2007 @ 11:23 am )
It is very disturbing the amount of expectations this society has about certain things. One of my big points is that people now care more about the ceremony than the marriage.
It is also uncanny how subtle expectations rear their head when you just aren’t expecting them. It takes a lot of courage to go against those expectations. It really does.
Comment by Cindy (May 5, 2007 @ 5:35 pm )
Amen, sister. I think we may be about to find out just how much courage it will take. I guess that is a good thing to remind everyone who gets a little “crazy” about these things: This is a marriage, not a ceremony.
Comment by Linda (May 5, 2007 @ 6:04 pm )
Recently the focus has been on the beer bash after the ceremony. (hehe, did I really just type that?) Again, not the marriage.
Comment by Janet (May 5, 2007 @ 6:18 pm )
Janet, Janet,
What are we going to do with you? I think the proper term for Beer Bash After the Ceremony is reception.
Comment by Cindy (May 5, 2007 @ 9:23 pm )
Oh, yeah, The Reception!!
Comment by Janet (May 6, 2007 @ 10:39 pm )
Our church is a bit different from most, even in the wedding department. Two of my favorite weddings occured immeadiately after, or in the midst of, Sunday service. How beautiful and how fitting!
One had the reception as a pitch-in (potluck) cookies and punch time on the front lawn of the church (wne we had our own building). The other was a “help-by-bringing-what’s-asked” dinner in the hall by the church (not ours as we are currently meeting in a gymnasium/elementary school while our building is being constructed). Simple, fun, and no stress for out of town families, new couple, etc.
Our pastor’s daughter did a similar reception, although the wedding was on Saturday… purely delightful and a wonderful way to show the love we have for these people.
Enjoying your blog ever so much, thanks!
Oh, poison control… we should have had them on speed dial!
Blessings, Kim
Comment by kim (May 7, 2007 @ 6:36 am )
Kim,
I want to go to your church
I just LOVE that idea!!!
I really do love my church and since it is a young church it hasn’t had any weddings yet.
Comment by Cindy (May 7, 2007 @ 9:16 am )
I love cooked pokeweed. Add a pot of beans and some corn bread or fried bread and the Queen herself would be content with it.
Comment by Laurie (May 9, 2007 @ 7:02 am )