It's the Little Things

Yesterday I wore matching bra and underwear and did not get murdered. I always find it exciting when I manage to do that.

Coincidence?

So way back before The Big Bang Theory was a thing, I said I wanted the Barenaked Ladies to write my theme song if there were ever to be a show about me. And then The Big Bang Theory got a theme song by the Barenaked Ladies. Forever and a half ago, when I started this blog, I put lyrics by Steve Burns as my about me. And then Young Sheldon got a theme song from the same album.

Hm...

The Power of Story

"The Good News of the Return of the King," by Michael Jahosky talks about parables, myths, and fairy stories, and how they can reach us in ways that having things spelled out to us can't. The truth is often more easily seen in a story than in our every day lives.

"...[C.S.] Lewis says, 'It is only while receiving the myth as a story that you experience the principle concretely....[Charlie W.] Starr summarizes, 'When we take a meaning out of a myth, we turn it into an abstract statement, an idea. When we leave the meaning in the myth and not try to turn it into propositional language statements, the meaning remains.' This does not mean that we should not interpret, but it does mean that our interpretations are secondary to the experience of the story itself....That is why Lewis said, 'In the enjoyment of a great myth we come nearest to experiencing as a concrete what otherwise can only be understood as an abstraction.' There are, in other words, some truths that can only be understood through story."

As I was reading that, one story came rushing to mind. In the eighth series of Doctor Who, Clara threatens the Doctor with the loss of his Tardis in an attempt to get what she wants (the accident that killed her boyfriend to never have happened). He says no, and she goes ahead and (she thinks) destroys all the keys to the Tardis. She wasn't actually successful, as he was ultimately in control of the situation, but she has shown how far against him she would go. And then comes this:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CzCghIPHFI0

It stopped me short as that truth hit hard.

And this is why story is so important. This is how story can convey truths that become mere head knowledge otherwise. Even now, having thought of this scene many times since, it doesn't convey the same impact as it did the first time I saw it, as it's been taken out of the magic of the story, and it is that magic that is conveying that truth. Stories are vital for our understanding of reality, and ultimately then, for our understanding of God.

I Just Love Her

Me looking at redbubble.
Mom: What are you doing?
Me: Looking for something Bucky Barnes.
Mom: What's Bucky Barnes?
Me: My new love.
Mom: Oh.
Me: I never cared about him in any of the Marvel movies, but then the show came out and now I'm in love.
Mom: I see.
Me: Also, now he's woo-woo. He had long hair before, and I was trying to figure out if it was just the haircut that made him woo-woo, but thought that it couldn't be just that and then I thought...do you know what I thought?
Mom: No.
Me: I thought, 'oh, how...'
Mom: He's 38.
Me: Yes, here, I'll show you.

Me: This is him in the first Captain America 

Mom: Ooh! Why didn't you like him then?!

Me: Yes, he was cute. But then this is him when he was brainwashed

 

 

Mom, not impressed: mm

Me: But this is him now

 

 Mom: OOhh, I see why you're more interested now.

What on earth?

Why isn't it showing the most recent seven days of posts like it's supposed to? And the pictures are having to overlap the border because it's reformatting them weirdly if I try to fix that. What gives?

I love him

 

I love that he took her question seriously enough to add a post-script in his own hand.😊