Mount Zion Ryan

More than three to make up some ground.

• Bitten again–I was driving to lunch and WHAM! I saw a Catalina 22 parked in a church parking lot. I immediately wanted to sail. I went into the office to inquire about her disposition. The sect’y had no information, so I’ll return tomorrow. There’s no sign and it has an ’06 registration so I doubt its for sale, but…it can’t hurt to ask.

  Instaed I went to the bookstore and bought a copy of Small Craft Advisor. O! To dream!

• Work has been really busy. It’s cutting into my blogging time. But really, I do most of my blogging from work. As soon as I can I will be using your word verifications to write something…
• I am the librarian at St. Anne Church (although at about 500 books “library” is stretching it) and I’ve been placing cards (yay!) in books and thinking about how to organize. Right now I have these categories:
  • History
  • Introduction
  • Icons
  • Biographies, Letters, Journals, Memoirs
  • Lives of Saints
  • Patristics
  • Theology
  • Liturgics
  • Childrens
  • Spiritual Life/Prayer
  • Other (non-Orthodox specific titles)

  I’m not sure if that makes the most sense but it’s what I’ve got. My biggest problem is not having enough space. Every time I go through the shelves I find something new and interesting and I’d love to have the room to put books on display to encourage library usage. (Wow this one is especially mundane. I’ll post a Forth item to make up for it.)

• Soccer season is fast approaching and I am not sure if I want to coach again. I’ve loved coaching Sophie’s team for two seasons, but dang if it doesn’t get tiring. I’d like to take Fr. Justin’s class this spring instead. Sophie definitely wants me to coach and some of the other parents have asked me if I was coaching so…guess I will. Hopefully the new leadership will make it easier on us coaches.
• What do you think about the Mohammed cartoon? (You can see it here) I’ve heard a lot of NPR coverage and Michael Savage’s take on it and I’m still not sure. There is absolutely no justification for the violence and destruction coming from angered Muslims. Nonetheless, I suspect that violent protest is the only kind they know, so…no surprise there.
  According to the Wikipedia article, “although the Danish press is free to satirise, a 2004 report by the European Network Against Racism concluded that a disproportionate amount of time and space is devoted to negative reporting on ethnic minorities. Within the Danish media spectrum, Jyllands-Posten [the original publisher. -Rapheal] was singled out as being particularly anti-immigrant.

  How could some of these “political” cartoons be anything but inflammatory. Is that responsible use of free speech?

  Granted the response is, as I said, unjustified, but the anger and shock is certainly understandable. Or not. I’m still sitting on the fence.

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