2 posts tagged “good”

Tragedy:

I got to work, and there was no work to be done.  Awww shucks!  Some tragedy!  Ha Ha!  It might become tragic if we don’t get any cake orders but people are always in need of something sweet so no worries there.  And Valentines will be upon us in no time.  So having an unexpected day off?  No tragedy there. 

Triumph:

A big one!  I designed the website for our congregation, nothing fancy just a nice looking fairly simple website.  But I’d been hearing some rumblings here and there and the webmaster was getting material from all quarters to put on the site that shouldn’t go on, plus I had to go on and clean up some stuff that got messed up.  I got frustrated and annoyed.  So I called a meeting of the involved parties and pretty much laid it out there and they did to.  It was a great meeting, very positive and very effective at getting the expectations clarified.  Yeah baby!  I’m lovin that!

Plus, I set up a blog for my pastor.  He’s going to blog all he wants to and we’ll link from the church page and he’ll have complete control over his content.  Best of all possible solutions for everyone and he’s pumped that it’s going to work out that easily.  And I’m delighted that I got to set it up for him and show him around.  Yep, I’m lovin that! 

I had a nap.  Twas lovely.  Got little else done.  Also lovely.  Good day!

What television show stands the test of time?

I have a great deal of respect for the TV show M.A.S.H.  The writers used stories from the Korean War to create this show, and because the themes and events are more fact than fiction this show has an incredible emotional impact.  Humor and human tragedy walk side by side in this show, one making the grief of the other more bearable, more palatable, more profound.  And there is truth here, the truth that war is (and has always been) a travesty against humanity.  There is good and evil, but it isn’t found in the expected “us and them” categories.  Although we’d like to believe the “us” is always good and the “them” is always evil, the truth is that good and evil reside in expected places; no matter what side of a conflict you are on, no matter how much power or opportunism is present or absent.  It has to do with moment by moment choices for death or life.  War is hell and makes heroes out of some and villains out of others.  M.A.S.H. put a human face on the experience.  And I think it should be required viewing for every soldier or civilian who has to choose whether or not a conflict is worth putting lives in harms way.  I don’t know what happened that compassion became a so rarified, but we need more compassion and less arrogance.  And much much much less war.