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4.18.05
My oldest friend (old referring to friendship and not friend, of course) (although we are no longer the spring chickens we were when we met) always makes me think, usually makes me laugh out loud, and is a very good writer, which is probably why he is my oldest friend. He lives in Japan. Here are some of my favorite, recent email excerpts:
from 1.7.05
So you're going to teach a craft or something . . . I've got a hideous recipe for making cookies that look like little mice unless you have the artistic talent of, well, me, and your supposed little mice are little lumpy things of cookie dough with some black specks and pieces of nuts and licorice stuck here and there. Would you like to teach the mice cookies?
from 1.9.05
Did I mention (not at all or 4 billion times?) that I'm trying
to read through the Bible, the whole thing, this year? It was fun the first
2 or 3 days. Yesterday I did the "eyes sweeping over the words while
thinking about something else" thing. Hope not to do that too much this
year.
from 1.10.05
Since you're into books, do you give the book shelves a prominent place in each room? My books are on the floor upstairs. Excluding Huck Finn, which is next to where I charge my mobile phone I never use because I don't like mobile phones so why did I buy it anyway, on one of the window seats.
from 1.10.05
You said you're impressed with me skiing, but if you actually saw me ski, "entertained" would be the word, not "impressed." Entertained and worried.
Worried for all the other people on the slopes. Not just the ones near me.
All of them.
I can get myself off the lift, though, without getting hit by the seat I was
just sitting on.
Most of the time.
from 2.4.2005
I liked Oceans 12 but got a little lost. I needed you to help me remember who's who. Or who was who. Or who was whom. I loved the Julia Roberts playing Tess playing Julia Roberts bit. That cracked me up. Julia Roberts had to pretend to be herself but not quite. And did you see the credits:
Introducing Tess as Julia Roberts
That cracked me up. Quietly, since I was the only one in the theatre who could
read English fast enough to get the joke.
from 4.16.2005
It was a lot of fun to see you and Bob and Claire. You are very hospitable,
and "being hospitable" is one of the highest compliments known to humanity,
if you ask me. And even if you don't ask me, it's true. But I think that
we as Christians can show a little bit of God's welcomingness to humanity by
being hospitable, and I enjoyed getting to receive some of your
God's-welcomingness-reflecting hospitality.
AND you had spray can whipping cream, the best.
I bought spray can hair spray and cheese whiz back from the US with me.
I'll try not to mix them up. I have a personal policy against eating
anything that's called whiz so I will find some young friends to share that
cheese-like, non-cheese product with. I have to buy things I won't be
tempted to eat.
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