Thursday, May 14, 2009

Hot Winter’s Day

Back in our little house on Second Street, I had many neighbor friends. Our neighbors across the street and around the corner had two children, and had a huge trampoline. One day they decided to upgrade their homeowner’s insurance. The trampoline was a liability or something, so they asked our family to put it in out backyard for a little while.
Enough back story. Another neighbor, around the corner and across the street, came over one day in January of my second grade year, her third grade year and we decided to make some tea and jump on the trampoline. But it was so hot that we iced our tea and laid on the trampoline and made up a song instead of jumping. We wrote down our song, and I found it in my drawer last week. Here’s our marvelous song.

Hot Winter’s Day
By: Ariel and Holly

[both girls]
We’re sitting on the trampoline drinking some on a hot winter’s day (doo doo doo dooooo do)

[girl 1]
Then we see an avocado that we sure want to swallow on this hot winter’s day (doo doo doo dooooo do)
We jump up in the air and put some leaves up there on this hot winter’s day (doo doo doo dooooo do)
But we are sure to fail ‘cause we’re sitting dail on this hot winter’s day (doo doo doo dooooo do)

[girl 2]
We want to jump up and down, try to make a clown of this hot winter’s day (doo doo doo dooooo do)
Then we got a lemon and tried to squeeze it on Evan on a hot winter’s day (doo doo doo dooooo do)
We love this windy air and try to get it up there to blow down the avocado in the tree…

[girl 1]
On this hot winter’s day (doo doo doo dooooo do)

Then as we’re sitting here, things became so clear on this hot winter’s day (doo doo doo dooooo do)
We should get a sparrow and use it as an arrow to bring down the avocado in the tree…

[girl 2]
But then we found out that on our troubles’ mount
There was the avocado that had fallen…

[both girls]
As we were sitting on the trampoline drinking some tea on a hot winter’s day (doo doo doo dooooo do oh ya ohooooooooooooooooooooooooo)

Thursday, May 7, 2009

There's this guy named C.S. Lewis and he said some pretty cool stuff...

Predestination or free will? How on earth is it one or the other? This excerp from Perelandra is pretty cool. i dont think it clarifies anything nicely, but I agreed with it and wanted to share it...

“He might beg, weep, or rebel – might curse or adore – sing like a martyr or blaspheme like a devil. It made not the slightest difference. The thing was going to be done. There was going to arrive, in the course of time, a moment at which he would have done it. The future act stood there, fixed and unaltered as if he had already preformed it. It was a mere irrelevant detail that it happened to occupy the position we call future instead of that which we call past. The whole struggle was over, and yet there seemed to have been no moment of victory. You might say, if you liked, that the power of choice had been simply set aside and an inflexible destiny substituted for it. On the other hand, you might say that he had delivered from the rhetoric of his passions and had emerged into unassailable freedom. Ransom could not, for the life of him, see any difference between these two statements. Predestination and freedom were apparently identical. He could no longer see any meaning in the many arguments he had heard on the subject.”
– C.S. Lewis PERELANDRA