| | Thanks for the whole Youth comment, ER! I don't always look like I'm 12, but I guess green brings out the blueness of my eyes, and that angle made them look uber-anime-y, as another friend let me know.
Yesterday at 3:30 I spilled coffee/hot chocolate all over my khaki pants. I was tired and I laughed at myself for a few minutes before I decided to go home and change. While home, I decided to do a little front yardwork - mowing and stripping a fallen branch for easier cleanup later. Then I showered, neglected to read anything for class tonight, and showed up thirty minutes early. Before class started, I came up with some great ideas for poetry that talks about the differences between apophatic theology and its counterpart, cataphatic theology through the metaphor of the eastern, forest-filled U.S. (cataphatic) and the U.S. West, a gorgeous, ineffable void (apophatic). We'll see what comes of that.
During class, we spent a decent amount of time on my work again. Becky, you're right. The class always energizes me. I should go home between work and class more often, but it seems silly to spent the extra gas driving. The professor read a chapter from a book that one of his colleagues has been passing around, so I assumed he wanted to talk fiction instead of poesy... but when nobody else volunteered to read their stuff, I decided what the hell. I like hearing people's comments about my work, obviously, but I don't want to be *that girl* who hogs the classroom. As class was winding down and we talked about a poem I wrote about the autumn season, I told him I was worried my portfolio would be newer, unedited stuff, because I write more in the cooler autumn months than in hot summer. The prof actually expressed the same thing - he said the dark cold helped him churn out his best work. I like that we are kindred spirits. I'll have to tell him about how Dominique Lowell is now my facebook friend!!! She wrote a really neat poem about Jim Morrison that my prof shared in class a couple of weeks ago in response to my own poem on the same subject. I tracked Lowell down and she eventually got and *liked* a copy of my work. My already larger-than-life ego feels even huger. And today's unspilled caffeine helps 
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Summer is a time for activity...it's when you're stuck indoors that you can think more. Outdoors, you're all about pulse, destination, what you're buying there, and omg did that pile of clothing on the side of the road just MOVE (just a homeless person, relax)?!
I've always been apophatic about G-d. G-d has no place, is not evil, is not bound to our rules.
I suppose the argument could be elephant-based--G-d is like a wall (cataphatic), but isn't exactly like a snake (apophatic)(no fangs)--but I think a more apt description is the coffee cup. It IS about 4 ounces heavy, is HAS a loop handle just big enough for 2.5 fingers, as long as 0.5 is a pinky, etc. It does NOT have a lid, it does NOT handle direct flame well. Hmm...is apophasy just a way of comparing things to other things, like deduction, while cataphatic reasoning is inductive, where no such comparison exists?
100 e-Props for making me think.