Comments on: The Angels Want to Wear My Red Shoes http://www.sharpsand.net/2008/04/17/the-angels-want-to-wear-my-red-shoes/ Joseph Duemer's blog about reading, writing, politics, birds, food, & weather Sat, 20 Mar 2010 12:33:02 -0600 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 hourly 1 By: Brian Salchert http://www.sharpsand.net/2008/04/17/the-angels-want-to-wear-my-red-shoes/comment-page-1/#comment-7512 Brian Salchert Mon, 21 Apr 2008 03:29:30 +0000 http://www.sharpsand.net/2008/04/17/the-angels-want-to-wear-my-red-shoes/#comment-7512 I am a Roman Catholic; but due to circumstances, I am a cloistered one, an apartment monk/ belonging to no order other than the one of my own imagining. - Were a pope to do away with all the papal trappings-- and there is a prediction that the pope following this pope will be the last pope-- I would be greatly surprised, and deeply pleased; but that is only the surface of what needs to change. Even so, I am not without sin either. Peace, love, community. I am a Roman Catholic;
but due to circumstances,
I am a cloistered one,
an apartment monk/
belonging to no order other than
the one of my own imagining.
-
Were a pope to do away with
all the papal trappings–
and there is a prediction that
the pope following this pope
will be the last pope–
I would be greatly surprised,
and deeply pleased;
but that is only the surface
of what needs to change.
Even so, I am not without sin either.

Peace, love, community.

]]> By: jd http://www.sharpsand.net/2008/04/17/the-angels-want-to-wear-my-red-shoes/comment-page-1/#comment-7492 jd Sun, 20 Apr 2008 00:07:37 +0000 http://www.sharpsand.net/2008/04/17/the-angels-want-to-wear-my-red-shoes/#comment-7492 That's the one thing the fundamentalists I grew up among have not mastered -- joke control. Even as kids in fear of hell's fires, we made jokes about the preacher & his misbegotten children. That’s the one thing the fundamentalists I grew up among have not mastered — joke control. Even as kids in fear of hell’s fires, we made jokes about the preacher & his misbegotten children.

]]> By: chris robinson http://www.sharpsand.net/2008/04/17/the-angels-want-to-wear-my-red-shoes/comment-page-1/#comment-7486 chris robinson Sat, 19 Apr 2008 16:04:48 +0000 http://www.sharpsand.net/2008/04/17/the-angels-want-to-wear-my-red-shoes/#comment-7486 I suppose there's a bad joke in here somewhere. Question: Why does the Pope wear red shoes? Answer: Because the pink ones make him look like a child molester. For much of my life I would never have enetrtained the possibility of a Pope joke. I suppose there’s a bad joke in here somewhere. Question: Why does the Pope wear red shoes? Answer: Because the pink ones make him look like a child molester. For much of my life I would never have enetrtained the possibility of a Pope joke.

]]> By: edward mycue http://www.sharpsand.net/2008/04/17/the-angels-want-to-wear-my-red-shoes/comment-page-1/#comment-7477 edward mycue Fri, 18 Apr 2008 17:03:13 +0000 http://www.sharpsand.net/2008/04/17/the-angels-want-to-wear-my-red-shoes/#comment-7477 shoes yes. but what's worn under the dress? what would monty python say? dangerous & hateful as well as ridiculous. that story abt the emperor and his 'cool' gossamers and the laddie who outed him doesn't portray him as cruel and dangerous, does it? i don't suppose it's abt anything but power finally. as my great grammy jane delehant would intone: BACKWARD OH BACKWORD/ OH TIME IN THY FLIGHT/ MAKE ME A CHILD AGAIN/ JUST FOR TONIGHT. in this our green life popes and presidents think they own all the colors. edward mycue shoes yes. but what’s worn under the dress? what would monty python say? dangerous & hateful as well as ridiculous. that story abt the emperor and his ‘cool’ gossamers and the laddie who outed him doesn’t portray him as cruel and dangerous, does it? i don’t suppose it’s abt anything but power finally. as my great grammy jane delehant would intone: BACKWARD OH BACKWORD/ OH TIME IN THY FLIGHT/ MAKE ME A CHILD AGAIN/ JUST FOR TONIGHT.
in this our green life popes and presidents think they own all the colors. edward mycue

]]> By: Peter http://www.sharpsand.net/2008/04/17/the-angels-want-to-wear-my-red-shoes/comment-page-1/#comment-7476 Peter Fri, 18 Apr 2008 16:00:25 +0000 http://www.sharpsand.net/2008/04/17/the-angels-want-to-wear-my-red-shoes/#comment-7476 OUT OF THE POVERTY OF DESPERATION AND THE DESPERATION OF SURVIVAL When I call you up it’s because I want to hear again how a voice can hold something free but not deprived something singing but unappeasable no illusory exultation but like Meister Eckhart reiterating his idea of divine consolation that kind of peristalsis with a touch of frenzy thrown in to heighten the awareness the tenderness of love that makes love difficult and wants to prolong the difficulty unbearable unbearable it begs to sing like a grieving mother’s wailing on the radio all the way home. OUT OF THE POVERTY OF DESPERATION
AND THE DESPERATION OF SURVIVAL

When I call you up it’s because
I want to hear again how a voice
can hold something free but not deprived
something singing but unappeasable

no illusory exultation but like
Meister Eckhart reiterating his idea
of divine consolation that kind of
peristalsis with a touch of frenzy

thrown in to heighten the awareness
the tenderness of love that makes love
difficult and wants to prolong the difficulty

unbearable unbearable it begs to sing
like a grieving mother’s wailing
on the radio all the way home.

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