A prayer from Ole

This one isn't mine, but it really touched my heart when I heard it, so I wanted to share it with all of you...

Ole is praying to God one evening, thinking about his wife, Lena, and offers this up:

"O God, why did you make my wife the way you did? Why did you make her so kind, so beautiful, so gifted at caring for me?"

"Ole, I made her that way so that you would love her..."

"Ok God, thank you, but why did you have to make her so STUPID?"

"Well, Ole, I made her that way so that she would love you..." ;)

Community

I like this. I like writing, reading what others write, being able to "hear" the opinions of people I never converse with. But blogging is like a conversation, replete with statements and comments, and comments on comments. I like it.

Enjoying the blogworld puts me smack-in-the-middle of an community I never thought I'd join:

cell-phone: never!

instant messaging: couldn't be bothered!

blogging: what's blogging?

Well, needless to say, I have grown in the last few years to really appreciate this world. I suppose it's popular because it's got some great advantages... and I like it.

A community linked through computer screens (which are much less intrusive than they once were - my flat panel display is a welcome addition) and wireless media. Many would argue that it's not a community at all, but if you're reading this, you know different, don't you?

Welcome to the real world, Neo.

Champions

If you don't follow sports, or don't care about the CFL in general, you may not know that the Edmonton Eskimos won the Grey Cup on Sunday, beating the Montreal Alouettes 38-35 in overtime. This is particularly comforting for me as I have been redeemed for my recent backstab (read about it in Traitor) of this great franchise!

I attended the game here in Vancouver, making myself one of the 59, 157 fans packing BC Place for the CFL championship game. I wore my golden sweatshirt and stood up for the green and gold every chance I had. I was sitting in the close confines of bitter Lions fans who hated the "cheaters" (their nickname for the Eskimos following the Western conference finals game where Edmonton beat BC in Vancouver) and wanted to see them lose. Fortunately, these bitter fans are also my friends, so their hostility was generally directed towards the team and not its fans (i.e. - me). Well, there was the one incident when I was smacked in the back of the head with a lead pipe at halftime, but that's another story...

Needless to say, renewing my cheers for Edmonton restored some of the child in me, giving the green and gold a current in this displaced Albertan's veins once more. I will learn from this and never go back...

GREEN AND GOLD FOR LIFE !!!

so there.