How can we take you seriously, PapaRazzi?? March 23, 2009

For those of us who have worked even one day in Africa and seen the suffering of those people living with AIDS, no, dying from AIDS, despite our faith, our religion, our background, we recognize the importance of sensitization and prevention campaigns that are candid, frank and practical.  Telling people not to have sex will not stop people from having sex.  GOD!  What is wrong with the Catholic Church??? Why must it still, when it comes to this very basic of human desires, walk the moral high ground?  And now it is doing so at the expense of lives of the most vulnerable people in the world.  Ya, PapaRazzi.  Of course people are going to cheer for you when you’re in their land, bringing them media attention.  But do you not realize that the entire LOGICAL world is laughing at your inane, ignorant and harmful assertion that the use of condoms increases the problem of AIDS???  If there is a God, she must also be wondering how you got hired.  Have you ever politely asked a dog to stop humping your leg?  What was the result?  My point exactly.  People will have sex with or without condoms, with or without information, with or without birth control.  Knowledge is power.  Give them ALL the options, including abstinence and condoms, and let them decide for themselves.

And we thought that the 21st Century would bring us a space odyssey, time travel and flying cars.  I am just so baffled at how we ended up with a retrograde church, trying to muster a following in the poorest countries of the world, playing on people’s fears, their desperate needs and their ignorance, just to increase its membership.  SHAME ON YOU PapaRazzi.  Good will, Good Schmwill.  Where is the goodness in oppressing the oppressed?

Get out a science book.  Read it.  Put the bible away.  Let simmer.  Add a cup of logic, a dash of intelligence, 30 years of statistics and mix well.  Wrap in latex and let rise.  Then go back to Africa and see what kind of message your mouth can provide to people who need to hear some common sense.

I JUST DON’T GET IT.  GET OVER YOURSELF CHURCH!

Things I’ve learned over the past 6 weeks March 11, 2009

1. Transformation from human to goddess involves time, money and many safety pins.

2. Even when my fridge is virtually empty, I can make a gourmet dinner for two.

3. Cooking for two is inspiration enough to perform the miracle of the bread and the fish.

4. There is nothing better than having my dinner-making interrupted by a man who spontaneously pulls me into his arms to dance with him.

5. Swamplands have officially surpassed deserts as my favourite landscape.

6. Ping Pong, as benign as it appears, can actually cause destructive warfare.

7. Extra Virgin olive oil may be a misnomer.

8. A dirty oven, raw fish, a failed exam and six weeks are the four essential ingredients for love.

9. Eventually, the universe will conspire to make you happy.

10. Eventually, “merely” transforms into “perfectly”

11. Eventually, “whelmed” transforms into “satisfied”

12. Eventually, all that which we thought impossible and out of reach is caught by the gossamer thread shot forth by our souls.