Some Thoughts
My brain is bursting with ideas, things to write about. But there just isn't enough time. Errands to run, stuff to read, phone calls to make. I will share some thoughts from this week:
a) I took a long, hot shower the other day. I stood there under the water for a while with my eyes closed, just sort of enjoying the steady water sound (is it called 'white noise'?) and the heat. I opened my eyes, and there were sunbeams coming through the bathroom window, and right on into the shower. We don't have a curtain; our shower has glass doors. Anyway, it was cool to watch little particles of water dancing around in the beams. Mist in sunbeams looks the same as dust in sunbeams. I've been taking showers in this house for years, and I don't ever remember seeing sunbeams in the shower. Timing is everything.
b) I feel a little bad about not telling more of my friends about this blog. I started to mention it a couple of times, but I refrained. I know some people will be offended or hurt. Feel left out. Don't take it that way guys. The blog is an attempt at self-expression, something to get me writing regularly. I'll tell you about this eventually, or you'll find it on your own, or ... I don't know, you'll know when you know, and that'll be the right time. The important thing is that I'm writing, right?
c) Ok, last thought. I'm getting pretty tired. I thought about words a lot this week. Sometimes I choose the wrong ones. I mean, to me they are the right ones, but I suspect my word choice is often offensive or unsettling to people. I don't mean to be offensive, but I do purposefully try to avoid using "Christian speak". I understand it to be a linguistic/cultural phenomenon by which religious people "sanitize" their conversation rather than engage in discourse that is truly pure.
For example, people say "Karen, bless her heart, she just [insert gently disparaging remark here]." But they really mean "That Karen ... what an idiot. She just [insert abrasively disparaging remark here]." I know that being tactful is important. Decorum has value. But sometimes, the way the hoi polloi say something is the way it should be said. At least if the "common" term more accurately conveys the meaning.
I guess that in order to be direct, tactful, and avoid "Christian speak" (which I think is almost inherently bad, btw) one must know his audience/listener.
a) I took a long, hot shower the other day. I stood there under the water for a while with my eyes closed, just sort of enjoying the steady water sound (is it called 'white noise'?) and the heat. I opened my eyes, and there were sunbeams coming through the bathroom window, and right on into the shower. We don't have a curtain; our shower has glass doors. Anyway, it was cool to watch little particles of water dancing around in the beams. Mist in sunbeams looks the same as dust in sunbeams. I've been taking showers in this house for years, and I don't ever remember seeing sunbeams in the shower. Timing is everything.
b) I feel a little bad about not telling more of my friends about this blog. I started to mention it a couple of times, but I refrained. I know some people will be offended or hurt. Feel left out. Don't take it that way guys. The blog is an attempt at self-expression, something to get me writing regularly. I'll tell you about this eventually, or you'll find it on your own, or ... I don't know, you'll know when you know, and that'll be the right time. The important thing is that I'm writing, right?
c) Ok, last thought. I'm getting pretty tired. I thought about words a lot this week. Sometimes I choose the wrong ones. I mean, to me they are the right ones, but I suspect my word choice is often offensive or unsettling to people. I don't mean to be offensive, but I do purposefully try to avoid using "Christian speak". I understand it to be a linguistic/cultural phenomenon by which religious people "sanitize" their conversation rather than engage in discourse that is truly pure.
For example, people say "Karen, bless her heart, she just [insert gently disparaging remark here]." But they really mean "That Karen ... what an idiot. She just [insert abrasively disparaging remark here]." I know that being tactful is important. Decorum has value. But sometimes, the way the hoi polloi say something is the way it should be said. At least if the "common" term more accurately conveys the meaning.
I guess that in order to be direct, tactful, and avoid "Christian speak" (which I think is almost inherently bad, btw) one must know his audience/listener.
posted by Wordsmyth at
11:28 PM
2 Comments:
An interesting point that sanitizing makes things less pure, like spraying Lysol on a sundae.
Lysol on a sundae ... that's a pretty good illustration. Some things just don't need to be sanitized.
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