Boxes!

We were having guests over for dinner later that day, so early in the morning, while it was still cool, we decided to go supermarket shopping.

A simple enough exercise (I thought), just a few grocery items and home again in time for me to gallop through my todo list; wash the car, mow the front lawn and tidy up around the garden.

The weather was good and it was shaping up to be a great day.

But after nearly three hours we had

- tried on 3 outfits,

- closely examined 4 pairs of shoes,

- visited the pharmacy,

- chatted to a couple of passers by

- admired the ear rings in the Jewelers window and exhausted,

- stopped for coffee.


'This is such fun, Anthea said, I'm so glad we could come out together this morning, now what else was it?'

'Oh, yes, the groceries.'


I was getting tense. . . . VERY tense.

Whoever wrote Women are from Venus knew something I didn't, that women's heads are wired differently from men.

The attached video says it all - perhaps I just didn't have enough boxes open!

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Time changes everything

The New Zealand theologian who was tried in the 1960's on heresy charges is today heralded as a national hero.

Holder of New Zealand's prestigious Order of Merit Award, the equivalent of a Knighthood in earlier years, Lloyd Geering, Emeritus Professor of Religious Studies at Victoria University is now very definitely a respected part of the establishment, and the church that once persecuted his 'outrageous' beliefs is now to hold a special service commemorating the 40th anniversary of his heresy trial.

This illustrates how yesterdays radicals become todays conservatives, that every 'ism becomes a 'wasim' and that every 'doctrine' has its day.

As much as this evolution in our understanding of 'truth' appeals to me, it does makes me wonder (worry) about how we will view George Bush in a hundred years?

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