Tuesday, August 16, 2005
I need a juicer
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Dullness of mind and irritability of spirit pursues me this week. Even my rebellious morning cup of coffee is making me feel bad. The solution: I have decided I need a juicer to fill my body with fresh health instead of caffeine. Of course the juicer I want is over $200 . . .
I ought not be surprised at the grayness of my week. I usually experience post-vacation blues. (ok, I suppose the week is blue and grey. I just wish this darned yellow sun would go away. I wasn't made for Texas. . . . :-) But I am trying to turn it for good, spending more down time with the girls and just reading without underlining ferociously. Let me quote Chesterton (from Orthodoxy) to give my blog some substance, because it sure isn't going to come from me this week!
Other vague modern people take refuge in material metaphors; in fact, this is the chief mark of vague modern people. Not daring to define their doctrine of what is good, they use physical figures of speech without stint or shame, and, what is worst of all, seem to think these cheap analogies are exquisitely spiritual and superior to the old morality. Thus they think it intellectual to talk about things being "high." It is at least the reverse of intellectual; it is a mere phrase from a steeple or a weathercock. "Tommy was a good boy" is a pure philosophical statement, worthy of Plato or Aquinas. "Tommy lived a higher life" is a gross metaphor from a tenfoot rule. . . .
Now here comes in the whole collapse and huge blunder of our age. We have mixed up two different things, two opposite things. Progress should mean that we are always changing the world to suit the vision. Progress does mean (just now) that we are always changing the vision. If should mean that we are slow but sure in bringing justice and mercy among men; it does mean (just now) that we are very swift in doubting the desirability of justice and mercy . . . Progress should mean that we are always walking toward New Jerusalem. It does not mean that the New Jerusalem is walking away from us. We are not altering the real to suit the ideal, We are altering the ideal: it is easier.
I ought not be surprised at the grayness of my week. I usually experience post-vacation blues. (ok, I suppose the week is blue and grey. I just wish this darned yellow sun would go away. I wasn't made for Texas. . . . :-) But I am trying to turn it for good, spending more down time with the girls and just reading without underlining ferociously. Let me quote Chesterton (from Orthodoxy) to give my blog some substance, because it sure isn't going to come from me this week!
Other vague modern people take refuge in material metaphors; in fact, this is the chief mark of vague modern people. Not daring to define their doctrine of what is good, they use physical figures of speech without stint or shame, and, what is worst of all, seem to think these cheap analogies are exquisitely spiritual and superior to the old morality. Thus they think it intellectual to talk about things being "high." It is at least the reverse of intellectual; it is a mere phrase from a steeple or a weathercock. "Tommy was a good boy" is a pure philosophical statement, worthy of Plato or Aquinas. "Tommy lived a higher life" is a gross metaphor from a tenfoot rule. . . .
Now here comes in the whole collapse and huge blunder of our age. We have mixed up two different things, two opposite things. Progress should mean that we are always changing the world to suit the vision. Progress does mean (just now) that we are always changing the vision. If should mean that we are slow but sure in bringing justice and mercy among men; it does mean (just now) that we are very swift in doubting the desirability of justice and mercy . . . Progress should mean that we are always walking toward New Jerusalem. It does not mean that the New Jerusalem is walking away from us. We are not altering the real to suit the ideal, We are altering the ideal: it is easier.
1 Comments:
At 8/17/2005 11:43 AM,
Anita said…
I generally get the blues after a short vacation too. The first time I traveled out of the country I came back with culture shock. And the only time I came back with more energy than when I left was on a cruise. All I did was sleep and eat because that was all there was to do. And I'm not a sit-around-and-do-nothing kind of a person. ;-)
I focus on enjoying the clean laundry when we get home from a vacation!
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