It seems that there is not much news at the moment when all the radio news programmes and comments relate to semi-intelligible jargon used in business. Most of it seems pretty obvious - phrases such as 'the moon on a stick' or 'a bite from the reality sandwich' don't need a lot of explaining but the idea of 'coming at this with an open kimono' is seriously scary!!
Then I noted a reference to the Archbishop of Canterbury struggling to avoid a 'fractured communion' which, looking beyond the sadness and seriousness of the reality to which it refers, hinted at an amusing lack of knowledge of Anglican or ecclesiastical jargon - isn't fracture of the communion actually something Anglicans do every week...? I mean, the technical term for breaking the bread/wafer is 'fraction'? Probably says more about my warped mind than anything else.
Anyway, if you want to 'touch base on or off line' you know where I am. Happy cliches whatever you're adoing of.
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The wicked part of me wonders if it is possible to have a communion which is not 'fractured!'
When we first visited El Salvador, we brought back some beautiful pottery in our rucksacks. It all arrived intact, except for the beautiful communion plate which Deborah had bought for me. I glued it back together and every time I use it, it reminds me of that wonderful country, torn apart by war, but glued back together by hope.
Without the experience of fracture, can we ever actually know the hope of resurrection?
The moon on a stick? Has this phrase escaped from the Beaker Folk's 'Encyclopedia of Obscure Parables', or am I reading the wrong blog?
The "moon on a stick" was popularised by the 1990s British comedy act Lee & Herring - as in the expression "Pebbles and a tea light? You want the moon on a stick, you do!"
But an Encyclopaedia of Obscure Parables? You inspire me...