Tagged from Steve - I am ‘it’
A Tag from ‘Steve Scott‘ - Interesting facts about me
1) Four jobs I’ve had in my life: (1) Roofer (2 years); (2) Convenience Store Clerk (2 years - 2 places); (3) In bound telemarketer (6 months); (4) Career Centre Coordinator - with an Aboriginal focus (1 year).
2) Three places I’ve lived: (1) Peepeekisis Reserve (12 years); (2) Regina (21 years); (3) Saskatoon (4 months)
3) Four TV Shows I Love to Watch: (1) Heroes (cause I like shows that look like comic books); (2) Sopranos: Get past all the swearing and violence and you have a pretty neat dynamic; (3) Big Brother: I like reality and trying to predict reality; (4) Flintstones: A throwback to a time when that humor on it was normal.
4) Five Blogs I Read Regularly: (1) Pirke Avot (Yael) - Rabbinical writings from times past (great stuff)’ (2) Rabbinical Writings (Yael) - teachings from current and past rabbi’s on the words of God; (3) Confession of a Seminarian - great topics about issues in the faith and a nice community; (4) NorthVU’s - local Regina pastor with a flair for good convo and good writing; (5) Just1 - my brother - who posts rarely for some reason.
5) Four Favorite Foods: (1) Rice Vermicelli w/pork and spring rolls; (2) Kraft Dinner w/ cut up wieners; (3) Rice and beef mixed together (like hamburger helper sort of); (4) Club sandwiches
6) Four Places I’ve Been: (1) Vancouver, BC; (2) Montana; (3) Calgary, AB; (4) Winnipeg, Manitoba.
7) Four Places I’d Rather Be Right Now: (1) Home (reading and writing); (2) having an ice cream at a local ice cream stand; (3) in a home we are trying to buy; (4) Driving - I always like to be in traffic.
8 ) Four Things I Look Forward to In This Next Year: (1) New stuff we will buy; (2) Owning a new home (please God - let us have this one?); (3) Reading (books and blogs); (4) Children - we have none right now - but maybe that can change?
9) Four People I Tag To Add This To Their Blog: I will tag no man, woman, beast, or bird of the air.
yaelbatsarah said,
May 11, 2008 at 5:58 am
(1) Pirke Avot (Yael) - Rabbinical writings from times past (great stuff)’ (2) Rabbinical Writings (Yael) - teachings from current and past rabbi’s on the words of God; (3) Confession of a Seminarian - great topics about issues in the faith and a nice community; (4) NorthVU’s - local Regina pastor with a flair for good convo and good writing; (5) Just1 - my brother - who posts rarely for some reason.
I had to laugh when I saw this response. Glad you’re enjoying my postings from rabbis past and present but that’s quite the contrast you have in your reading. Teachings of the rabbis followed by the seminarians who claim as fact that these same rabbis knowingly went off course and we Jews have been deceived by them for over 2000 years? It’s good to read from all points of view but I never thought I’d see my blogs and theirs listed in the same sentence!
NorthVU is a good guy. You can tell he’s been out interacting with people from many walks of life. I thought about posting again, but…..that picture of electrical poles that look like crosses…..makes me realize no matter how nice the pastor is, it’s not my place. It was sort of like Andrew’s experience with the Mormon’s I suppose. A person walks away feeling a bit sad because for a moment it seemed like there was a possibility, but in the end we come back to reality. And that’s OK. Reality is crosses are what Christianity is all about, I only fool myself if I think just because there isn’t a cross in plain view for awhile that this isn’t so. Perhaps someday I will come to the same conclusion with your blog as well, but I guess we’ll see. Social Justice seems to be more of your concern than crosses so perhaps we’ll beat the odds and continue to meet on common ground for months and years to come.
I wish your brother would write more about First Nations, but I understand. It’s not worth it giving anyone more ammunition that will likely be used against oneself.
SocietyVs said,
May 11, 2008 at 12:50 pm
True Yael…we have to accept their are differences and not everyone values the same things you do or that I do…but I think their is some common ground. Personally, I like you blogs more than anything else I read and have stated that for some time - because your’s teaches me…and as much as I love deep convo…I like to hear a Jewish perspective to things (because I am reading Jewish authors from 2000 years ago). I think I value that perspective quite a lot.
As for your focus, Social Justice, I am soooo on that train as well. I think it is a valuable way to live - cause what’s life if we live it only for ourself?
As for my bro, well your right - but I think he is past the phase of being ’shell shocked’ - he’s just can’ty find the time to write another blog for some reason.
yaelbatsarah said,
May 11, 2008 at 7:30 pm
The focus on Social Justice is what I think enables us to get on with life and find meaning. Otherwise we just end up being a couple of kicked around kids wallowing in the garbage that was once our lives, IMO anyway. This way we can use the crap to help us be better, more caring, people. It’s sort of like in Torah when we’re told to not abuse the stranger because we were once strangers in Egypt. What happened spurs us on to make sure the same things don’t happen to others; what happened helps us see when the same things happen to others. That sort of thing.