Shower Thoughts

I find I do some of my best thinking in the shower.  Not sure why.  There's probably a scientific reason for it, somehow related to water.  Whatever the reason, my mind produces a plethora of platitudes and plankton-like thoughts (Sorry.  I had an urge to alliterate).  A few of the things I came up with, I will not write for your viewing pleasure.

I've had to revise my opinion of a Linkin Park song.  It's on the radio right now - Waiting for the End.  When I first heard it, I remember thinking that it was a little odd, but it strayed from the original sound.  I felt a little betrayed.  When I think of Linkin Park, I expect to hear rock music in my head; this latest effort is a bit more of a ballad.  I even discussed this a little with Claudia.  She was giving me a lift somewhere and the song came on the radio.  I remember her asking me what I thought of it and I told her basically what I wrote above this sentence.  Over the course of this last semester, though, the song started to grow on me.  Maybe it's because I was at the end of my college career, or the end of my student teaching.  Maybe it's just where I am in life right now.  I feel like I've come to the end of something.  But, like the song says, "this is not the end.  This is just the beginning."  Somewhere, somewhen, somehow, I've changed.  And so, the song reverberates with me now.  I find myself singing along (I need more practice.  Still don't have the lyrics committed to memory).

Shifting topics.  Watched The Imaginarium of Doctor Parnassus last night.  Definitely a weird movie.  I saw names on the front-Christopher Plummer, Heath Ledger, Johnny Depp, Colin Farrel, Jude Law-and I thought that it would be worth watching.  I was right-it was good.  Also strange.  The storyline was straightforward in setting up the problem.  The solution left me puzzled, though.  The resolution was also bizarre.  I'm still trying to process and analyze all of the movie.  Maybe that's my problem.  In one of the special features, the director says that the movie was almost a whimsical move for him.  It shows.  It's a whimsical movie.

Shifting topics.  Had a revelation the other day.  Well, a revelation for me, maybe not for you.  I thought about the basic nature of Sin.  How would I define Sin in a sentence?  Here's what I came up with.  Sin (Satan's Way) is putting Me before You.  God's Way (don't have a single word definition) is putting You before Me.  I think that's all the explanation I'll put here.  Think about it.  It'll make sense.

Okay.  I'm freshly showered, I exercised a little while ago.  I'm starting to feel thirsty and hungry.  Let us eat, drink, and be merry for tomorrow is another day.