A Podcast For Anyone So Inclined

A Podcast For Anyone So Inclined July 24, 2017

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I have been enjoying my small break from relentlessly pursuing to know and consume all that the internet has to offer (that’s a joke, there’s no way I am at all interested in the main thing the internet is about) but am coming back just for a moment to say Hello and link the extra long podcast we did this morning. It wasn’t intentional, we just got talking and without the pressures of the usual Monday spurring us on, we kept going. We talked about James White, American Civil Religion, and why you shouldn’t read the Bible like its buzzfeed. I think I sound really tired, but it’s really more that slow waking up sensation of being allowed to sleep whenever you want to. Enjoy!

Not going to gather links because I haven’t been saving them up, much. I’ve been reading Arts and Letters Daily every…you guessed it, day. And then I’ve been putting my phone down and reading Black Lamb and Grey Falcon, Booked, Teach Us To Want, The Drunken Forest, Fierce Convictions, Is The Bible Good For Women, and Moments and Days. I’ve also dug out the children’s rooms and gone through my desk, and, most importantly, faced a Homeschooling task I was deeply dreading. Not only faced it but got it done. This week I’m going to face a church task I’ve been deeply deeply dreading.

So far, this has been the kind of holiday I’ve probably needed for a couple of years–not the fun race down to Texas and rejoice in the heat one, which I love so much, but the needed sit in my own house and catch up on life one, the kind where you face the stuff that gets shoved to the margins in the insane rush of daily work, made possible by not having to push on to the next thing. There are some tasks that take robust mental space to be able to accomplish but that I always think I can get on with here and there, while I’m also folding laundry and listening to the chattering of children. Which means, surprise, that I never do them. They sit there mocking me as the years go by.

Also, I’ve learned this week that I don’t know how to “rest.” I know how to stop working for a few hours and space out, but I don’t know how to leave the work behind and just sort of, I dunno…what’s it called? I just got and go and go with periods of sitting in a chair to break up the monotony. And this, I think, is true even when we go away. I was casting my eye back over all our previous holidays and realizing that I don’t ever stop, I just keep going in a different location. And that this has been so since, shocker, 2009 when we lost to the episcopal church. Something switched in my essential being. I am always fleeing on to the next thing.

And now, if you’ll excuse me, I must go and do, something else. Pip pip.


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