Those things that are on my mind.

1)Geist
a literary & cultural magazine within Canada that I just discovered. They have this thing where people submit "flash fiction" in the form of a Postcard Story. Kind of like Post-Secret I guess, only fiction. I've been reading them and thinking, since my fiction assignment looms.

2) This poem:
Anger Sweetened
Molly Peacock

What we don't forget is what we don't say.
I mourn the leaps of anger covered
by quizzical looks, grasshoppers covered
by coagulating chocolate. Each word,
like a leggy thing that would have sprung away,
we caught and candified so it would stay
spindly and alarmed, poised in our presence,
dead, but in the shape of its old essence.
We must eat them now. We must eat the words
we should have let go but preserved, thinking
to hide them. They were as small as insects blinking
in our hands, but now they are stiff and shirred
with sweet to twice their size, so what we gagged
will gag us now that we are so enraged.

3) How when we want to justify our behavior it is so convenient to use ideology.
I'm taking "Emergence of Modern Society" and it strikes me over and over again how Christian rhetoric has been used to justify the most inhumane and sinful acts. It makes me worried, what part of our faith is merely the truth manipulated to justify our behavior.

4) A film I saw on Thursday called, "Palestine is still the issue."
Suicide bombing has never made so much sense, and I wonder if right-wing ideology, that backs Israel's military state, is the only reason why we don't send more missionaries to help the Palestinians. The comparison of Palestine and apartheid South Africa is shocking.