I sent FB message to my BF and her husband today about something really trivial. Then my BF & I chatted back on the same thread and gave her a long account of how miserable and stressed I was at work. Only then did I figure that her DH is copied on all those messages. It's not a big deal, we are really good friends and I know she tells him everything anyway. It's does feel a little awkward...she's one of the few people who I really feel free to talk about my innermost thoughts with and it feels a bit like I gave myself away.
Another lesson about reply all.
This latest news from Rome gives me the visual of a beringed hand squeezing a fistful of sand harder and harder as all the grains slip out between the fingers.
Poor noodle mac, msbelle.
Conservative Catholicism seems to be popular in much of the African and Asian continents at the moment. I wonder if the Church is taking the view that they are willing to lose some parts of the world to gain others that are larger in population - with the gain in power allowing long term recovery here as well. Of course Africa and Asia have long progressive traditions even reactionaries are in power through large parts (not all) of both continents at the moment. So if that is the plan (and I'm not saying it is) it sort of depends on a very specific political path.
Just when you thought penguins couldn't be more cool...
Penguins employ supercavitation: [link]
Conservative Catholicism seems to be popular in much of the African and Asian continents at the moment
Most of the current growth in the Mormon Church is in those areas, too. They've nearly written off Europe, but that's still considered a plum mission assignment. Few people pointing guns at you, like in the American South, few chances of simply disappearing off the face of the earth. Plus cool sightseeing.
No word from ita, by the way?
ita's still lying low, Dana.
I was educated by a variety of nuns because we moved a lot and always went to Catholic school if it was an option. My favorites were the Franciscans I had in the latter part of grade shcool and for three years of High School.
This was back in the very early 70s and they were going through their own "liberation movement" at the same time the Feminist movement was starting up. It makes me very sad to think of the repression of all of those intelligent, spirited and spiritual women at the hands of irrational patriarchy.
