it has been quite some time since i wrote anything substantive on this thing (in this thing? to this thing? after doing this on and off for three years i am still not really sure how you are supposed to talk about blog interaction). and it is not that i haven't tried. i've started at least four different ones that weren't really fit to finish. incomplete thoughts seem to be more the rule than the exception lately.

as i type this i am watching 'the matrix' with becky. it is hard to watch this neo-gothic [grin] cinematic marvel without wishing that i had a long black leather trench coat and the ability to bend and stretch physical reality at whim - maybe some day (though i'm not terribly attached to the trench coat). it has been quite some time since i watched it. this movie is brilliant - the story so well formed, the imagery so well crafted. i love the themes it explores, the real world beneath the world we're in, the faith needed to understand, see, experience this new world, hope embodied in a prophesied individual. a complicated parable, but one that i appreciate, for sure.

i have read a few books that do the same thing, make it easy to imagine fantastic things. but lately i have been reading a collection of sermons by francis buechner called 'telling the truth: the gospel as tragedy, comedy, and fairy-tale'. i love the way buechner puts things, explains how he sees what it means. i think he may be my new favourite. n.t. is giving him a run for his money, though, we'll see.

i am glad to be here, to have this time to let my thoughts percolate. i will try to write something worthwhile next time. : - ).