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Aug. 28th, 2005 11:18 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
theatokosWords of wisdom, spoken by Rowan Williams, the Archibishop of Canterbury, stumbled across in an article by Marina Warner in the Times Literary Supplement:
"...what kind of a church is it that lives in perpetual and murderous anxiety about the fate of its God? ...if you believe in a mortal God, who can win and lose his [sic] power, your religion will be saturated with anxiety - and so with violence."
To which I say, amen.
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Also, two new loves I have recently discovered:
The pluot, a plum-apricot hybid, whose texture and flavor are making me happy daily.
The piano playing of Artur Schnabel, a Polish pianist from the early 20th century. At the bookstore where I work we have a turn table, one of the workers here, a man in his fifties, brings in chunks of his vinyl collection, everything from jazz to 1960s easy listening to ambient Brian Eno to Joni Mitchell. In his collection are two recordings from the 1930s of Schnabel's playing, Schubert Impromptus and Beethoven's Hammerklavier sonata. His piano playing is rich and vibrant and doesn't so much demand that I listen, but rather entices me with ... je ne sais quoi.
"...what kind of a church is it that lives in perpetual and murderous anxiety about the fate of its God? ...if you believe in a mortal God, who can win and lose his [sic] power, your religion will be saturated with anxiety - and so with violence."
To which I say, amen.
******
Also, two new loves I have recently discovered:
The pluot, a plum-apricot hybid, whose texture and flavor are making me happy daily.
The piano playing of Artur Schnabel, a Polish pianist from the early 20th century. At the bookstore where I work we have a turn table, one of the workers here, a man in his fifties, brings in chunks of his vinyl collection, everything from jazz to 1960s easy listening to ambient Brian Eno to Joni Mitchell. In his collection are two recordings from the 1930s of Schnabel's playing, Schubert Impromptus and Beethoven's Hammerklavier sonata. His piano playing is rich and vibrant and doesn't so much demand that I listen, but rather entices me with ... je ne sais quoi.