Games & Goofyness
I come from a teasing, silly, game-playing family, and that's what tonight has been: games with teasing & sillyness. My parents went to have dinner with friends (apparently a regular Friday night thing), and my brother Carter came over here after work -- so we played cards-specifically Oh Heck (some may know it as Oh Hell, but I learned it as a a kid in the G-rated version). It's a 10-round game with bidding & trump, and it's one of the games I enjoy playing with Carter (who has Down Syndrome). I'm punchy from exhaustion and I think he's really happy to have me home and also generally silly & goofy & ridiculous (runs in the family, eh?). We had fun.
Here's a photo of me & Carter
We ordered Dominos (Carter tricked me into paying), played cards, and watched iCarly on TV, then I took him to Friendlys for his pint of chocolate ice cream (yes, a pint - and yes, he eats a pint every Friday). On the way I came out to him (again) as he was trying to find me a boyfriend. I've come out to him before, but he doesn't know about any of the women I've dated and I've never made a big deal out of it. He doesn't really care....except now he's talking about setting me up with women he knows....uh oh....how's that for a way to be outed to the whole town?!? He's the only extrovert in the family and really does know everyone in town.
But the bottom line is that I love hanging out with Carter. Sure, he can drive me nuts with repetitive questions and an inordinate focus on food (where can we go for dinner? when do I get my coke? what are we doing for dinner Sunday?)....but he's also a ridiculous teaser in a way that's superfun and, well, brotherly. Yay brothers!
You can probably tell from my writing style that I'm quite tired, but I'm off ALL WEEKEND!!! For the first time in...um.....9 months? Probably something like that....
CPE update: We told our stories today. Someone said it seemed like quite a jump for me to go from community organizing to ministry, and I was reminded that the connection is still one I'm working on articulating & understanding for myself. Then this afternoon I hung out with folks in the Alzheimers/Dementia unit, which wasn't as strange or hard as I thought it might me. I like having an ID badge, it's fun!
We ordered Dominos (Carter tricked me into paying), played cards, and watched iCarly on TV, then I took him to Friendlys for his pint of chocolate ice cream (yes, a pint - and yes, he eats a pint every Friday). On the way I came out to him (again) as he was trying to find me a boyfriend. I've come out to him before, but he doesn't know about any of the women I've dated and I've never made a big deal out of it. He doesn't really care....except now he's talking about setting me up with women he knows....uh oh....how's that for a way to be outed to the whole town?!? He's the only extrovert in the family and really does know everyone in town.
But the bottom line is that I love hanging out with Carter. Sure, he can drive me nuts with repetitive questions and an inordinate focus on food (where can we go for dinner? when do I get my coke? what are we doing for dinner Sunday?)....but he's also a ridiculous teaser in a way that's superfun and, well, brotherly. Yay brothers!
You can probably tell from my writing style that I'm quite tired, but I'm off ALL WEEKEND!!! For the first time in...um.....9 months? Probably something like that....
CPE update: We told our stories today. Someone said it seemed like quite a jump for me to go from community organizing to ministry, and I was reminded that the connection is still one I'm working on articulating & understanding for myself. Then this afternoon I hung out with folks in the Alzheimers/Dementia unit, which wasn't as strange or hard as I thought it might me. I like having an ID badge, it's fun!
posted by Cathy at 6:34 p. m.
2 Comments:
my reaction to your post was that it doesn't seem like a big jump to me to go from organizing to ministry. i'm not really sure why. i wonder if it has to do with the culture of uuism, or the culture of sksm in particular, or the make up of my friend group and the way activist and religiousness intersect a lot of the time. which lead me to think about the assumptions i (and perhaps some other of our denomination make) that we, as uus, are the one's who are at the forefront of justice work from a faith based perspective (this coming from an initial reaction of, oh who ever pointed that out clearly isn't uu, or justices minded), and i think this is a problematic assumption that can keep me/uus separate from other faith traditions doing awesome justice work. and at the same time, i think there is something particular about sksm that affirms multiplicities of ministries in an important way.
but yeah. you are great. and your ministry is and will continue to be great as it grows and evolves. yippee!!!!
It's true - it's not and it shouldn't be a big jump. In fairness, this question of "how'd you get from X to seminary" is one many of us asked each other that day. And it's one of my push-button questions - one that I don't feel secure in my answer to and that causes me to think-- am I truly called to UU ministry? Is it really possible to combine these two worlds in the way that I want to? How do I articulate that to folks outside of the radical community organizing communities from which I come?
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