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Wow, I’m a bit of a tool. Way back on December 12, Bill tagged me for a meme and he even told me about it but I didn’t read his comment until just now so I didn’t know.
SORRY!
OK, here goes.
Five Things You Probably Didn’t Know About Me
1. I’m fat, and I self-identify as fat. I’m also fat positive, which means I don’t think it’s wrong or bad or even unhealthy to be fat. If you call me a fat bitch, I won’t take it as an insult ’cause neither of those words is an insult in my vocabulary.
2. I’m allergic to wheat, eggs, and dairy. Not in an anaphylactic way (like my brother is to nuts) but just in the way that they make me feel crappy so I avoid them. ‘Course sometimes I cheat, usually when chocolate or whipped cream is involved. My two best friends are vegan and they cheat under those same circumstances (one of them also cheats for brie).
3. When I was a preteen I spent endless hours playing out in the drainage ditch behind our house. Though it was a human-made feature, it became a habitat to all manner of wildlife including ducks, red-winged blackbirds, snails and frogs. One spring my mom even had to suffer me having an aquarium with tadpoles in it on her desk! I would make little habitats for the frogs in an old baby bathtub.
4. Speaking of my childhood, because the subdivision we live in wasn’t fully developed when I was young, there were a lot of empty lots in the neighbourhood. My brother and I used to play ‘Pioneers.’ That involved packing up our toy wagon with blankets, dolls and other playthings and carting them out into the empty lots, and picking the tall grasses and pretending to cook them.
5. I often fantasize about surprising random people at bus stops by offering them a free ride to wherever they’re going. Sometimes when I’m waiting at a bus stop I wish that someone I know would drive up and give me a ride — this has happened to me, but as you can imagine it’s a very rare occurrence. It’s almost always nicer and easier to get a ride than to take the bus. So when I see people waiting at bus stops when I’m driving a car, especially when it’s cold or otherwise inclement, I have this desire to stop and ask them if I can take them wherever they’re going. I would never do this, though, mostly because I don’t think most people would take me up on the offer. The would think I was a freak.
Ooops, almost forgot to tag. I herethuswith tag:
Brother Mark of Shifting Shifted Shifty
Steve of Stupid Church People
Lindsey of The Wolf that Lives in Lindsey
Pearlbear of Metacentricities
Kevin of Wasp Jerky
February 2nd, 2007 at 3:34 pm
The next time I see you at the bus stop, I’m going to offer you a ride.
I’ve sort of already played this already, here. Want me to play again?
February 26th, 2007 at 7:46 am
I like your blog!
Would like to update you on some of the ongoing “Original or Effective” discussion. Much of what was initially captured in the very brief piece in Pastors.com was not the full expression of my thoughts. The piece was directed at church planters - not pastors who speak regularly, weekly. I later wrote a cover story for Church Report that was about 2,000 words and did a decent job of explaining my thoughts on the topic.
I am going to publish a follow up article on this in Pastors.com in the next few months to clarify this somewhat. I agree with you - exploration, new thoughts, creativity is a great thing. And yes, I am super pro women in ministry.
Somehow my point has been “lost in translation” - initially when I started speaking 25 years ago I did use other’s outlines / bits and pieces of their messages as any craftsman in any skillset will do as she/he follows the lead of their mentor. My mentor encouraged me to do this - it was great counsel. Still totally believe that is a wise way to approach the aquisition of a skillset whether it is skulpting, writing or speaking. It is the very rare person who is a protege w/o a mentor - nearly unheard of in history.
I have spoken as much as anyone you will ever meet in terms of actual times in front of an audience - between 10,000 and 12,000 times. All that to say - I have learned a lot - still am about the craft of communicating orally. I am more than honored that each weekend that many communicators lift my messages, hundreds of invented phrases - without being quoted. If these people were teaching a graduate level course perhaps that would be appropriate, but a weekend church setting is not an academic setting - thus not necessary for such.
After so many millenia of human history it is pretty difficult to claim a seminal thought. Maybe Solomon was right after all - “There is nothing new under the sun…”
Steve Sjogren