Personal: Friday Night on the Jackson Retreat

[novak]

I remain amazed, occasionally, at the way time slips by, and in the incidental details revealed to me in the "Last Played" information in iTunes: how is it that I can love and know an album as well as I know and love U2's The Joshua Tree, only to find that I haven't played the whole thing through since apparently May of 2004

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[friede]

I seriously had to open a text file to make note of all the bits I wanted to exclaim over.

"conquer our Babel with Your Pentecost."

That is so right, I got a chill.

as he thinks it's more-or-less a waste of my life for me not to get married

Hmm. An interesting thesis, though I find myself wondering what the first principles behind the argument are.

"process our feelings"

I always forget you do that -- a failing of mine all the weirder as I am a processor myself and come from the land of processing (read: 89% of the inhabitants of liberal arts, and particularly women's, colleges).

Kevin spoke excitedly about the "boundaries" thinking he had been doing of late, and the application of that concept in relationships he worked on with his clients

I would dearly love to have heard that, seriously, as I'm interested in how those of us who are professional people-shapers figure out the relationships that lie in the grey areas.

[novak]

Hey, sorry: out of it this last day or two.

Yes, there's lots here: it was a rich time of ideas and personalities.

And yes, I was hit that hard by the Babel/Pentecost juxtaposition, too: so obvious, but I'd never thought of it before. I have to say that I love the liturgy, the Book of the Hours, and the Lectionary for the cumulative weight of all these readers' insights and alignments of texts over the centuries.

[friede]

Hey, no worries -- I'm a bit out of touch myself as long as I'm away, so you're emerging slowly from your thinky time and I'm slowly sinking into my own...

Though I reserve the right to tease you for being so vague in your response here.