"Oh my, how ridiculous!"

...was my first reaction to this article about a British teacher in Sudan who is being tried for allowing her class of 7-year-olds to name the class teddy bear "Muhammed." Gillian Gibbons is charged with "inciting religious hatred" and could face 40 lashes and prison time.

My second reaction was just sadness. Muslims are not afraid to make a big public stink about blasphemy and the sacredness of their prophet's name. Why don't Christians stand up and make a stink when our Lord's holy Name is profaned?

(These are actually cookies. Yum!)

Matt 6:34; Jer. 29:11

"Yes. Live today. Not yesterday. Not tomorrow. Just today. Inhabit your moments. Don't rent them out to tomorrow. Do you know what you're doing when you spend a moment wondering how things are going to turn out with Perry?"

"What am I doing?"

"You're cheating yourself out of today. Today is calling to you, trying to get your attention, but you're stuck on tomorrow, and today trickles away like water down a drain. You wake up the next morning and that today that you wasted is gone forever. It's now yesterday. Some of those moments may have had wonderful things in store for you, but now you'll never know." She looked at me. She laughed. "Such a solemn-faced listener you are. If I were a teacher, I'd like to have thirty of you in my class."

(I stole this from a young adult lit book I'm reading in moments, also stolen, between homework... much like I have stolen this moment to bang away on my micro-sized keyboard to produce a blog entry instead of another page of my paper)

(From whom am I stealing moments? Isn't it only my future self that will suffer, on Monday, when three professors demand neatly typed neatly thought-out neatly turned in papers?)

what goes on between your ears

So, what do you think about gun control? Should we have strict rules? Waiting periods? Background checks? Laws on what kind of gun you can purchase? Permits or licenses? Or should we just be like the Australians and make all handguns illegal?

Just wondering. I have a speech on this topic in two days and I have yet to write it. Whoops! Not that I'm asking you to write it for me. It's starting to formulate....slowly....perhaps I will share my opinions once I am done putting them in fancy, COM 314-style rhetoric.

Emotions on Starting an Org Comm Paper

My ideas are no longer floating around
Loose and fluffy like cirrus clouds
I have tethered them
With Times New Roman they are caught
Trapped like a bronco in a stall