7 Quick Takes (vol. 3)

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Michael and I arrived home from Lincoln on Tuesday.  It was hard (as always) to say goodbye to my parents and grandparents, but both M and I are ecstatic to be reunited with Alex. 

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Have you ever given up on a lost item, only to have it restored to you when least expected?  Michael lost a shoe on one of our evening walks a few weeks ago (he was in the stroller--my powers of observation may fail drastically at times, but I hope I would notice if my toddler were walking around with only one shoe!).  We retraced our route the next day, but to no avail.  I gave up all hopes of finding the lost sandal, but then Wednesday evening on our walk lo! and behold--the missing sandal was sitting on top of one of the mile-marker posts on the trail.  Good thing I hadn't gotten around to tossing the one we still had.

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So I guess I owe the coyotes an apology... I had just assumed that they ate/stole the shoe and that's why I couldn't find it the day after we lost it.

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With all of the hype over the North Carolina amendment banning same-sex "marriage," I felt compelled to write a blog post.  Why?  And it gets worse... the purpose of the post was to (attempt to) communicate Church teaching on homosexuality and how it's not something the Church can just change or ignore, I decided to post a link to the blog on Facebook.  Why, oh why oh why?!  Well, I wrote it to share knowledge, not just for the pleasure of enjoying my own rhetoric, so I had to get it out there.  So far the comments on Facebook have been surprisingly civil, but I am still waiting for the inevitable wrathful "You are an awful, stupid, brainwashed bigot for saying x, y, and z, and what about a, b, and c, and how can you hate homosexuals when you condone pedophilia?!"   Which of course will be followed by a lament that I am obviously too immature to dialogue on an issue when I point out that I didn't actually say x, y, and z, and that a, b, and c are irrelevant to the discussion at hand, and that claiming that I (or any Catholic) condone pedophilia simply being Catholic is an ad hominem attack.

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That said, here's the post.  It took me three days to write it, multiple reviews by my husband, and hours of cringing every time I look at Facebook since I posted it--only to find out that after trying to avoid offensive or derogatory wording I actually gave great offense by referring to the "homosexual lifestyle."  If you think I'm a wretched hopeless bigot after reading it, please tell me nicely...

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But after reading that (if you dared), you should check out Fr. Walter Ciszek's autobiography With God in Russia.  I'm 100 pages in and absolutely riveted.  It reads like a Tom Clancy novel, but with only one plot line (okay, so not much like Tom Clancy... but it has Communists and spies).

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And in other news... it's Friday!  Oh hooray, hooray hooray!  And Mother's Day this weekend, which means that tomorrow I'm getting absolutely spoiled with an amazing dinner that the Crane men are preparing for their wives (okay, that made us sound like a weird inter-married cult... that my husband, brothers-in-law, and father-in-law are preparing for my mother-in-law, sisters-in-law, and moi).  Now if only I could recover from answering comments about homosexuality all day with a really strong gin and tonic...

Quick Takes are being hosted by Hallie Lord this week--check them out!