A vow of mellowness

RantWoman is more of a salty salsa girl than a customer for The Ketchup Advisory Council and all those natural mellowing agents. For instance, RantWoman like as not will fly into a lather about all the corn syrup in ketchup AND cheer on her favorite brand of salsa, long ago outpacing ketchup in the national condiment face-off. RantWoman has to admit this EVEN THOUGH she really means it about trying to take a vow of mellowness for Lent.

RantWoman, being a good Protestant / Quaker would not automatically observe, say, a Lenten fast in any case. The subject came up though because Orthodox Bus Rider friend was talking about the Orthodox fast: believers basically become vegans for the period of the fast. RantWoman confessed that she does not even attempt say the Catholic practice of fish on Fridays, well at least not since the long ago days of school lunch. Orthodox Bus Rider told RantWoman about how her adult son raves about the experience, about feeling so light he is practically flying. RantWoman refrained from comments as to the effect of adding flying fasters to her bus-board faith experiences, but the vow of mellowness idea wandered into a later conversation.

The idea wandered in, but getting it to stay there may be a problem.

RantWoman recently took her quarterly trip to exotic Bellevue. Even though it is now dramatically easier to get to exotic Bellevue by public transit than it used to be and more pleasant to walk around once there, RantWoman finds it frighteningly easy to be drawn into rants about car culture and building more and more 8-lane freeways.

Some Friends from RantWoman's Meeting have also been going to some site destined soon to be covered in concrete. Friends have been taking advantage of native plant rescue opportunities and bringing the rescued plants back to plant in the grounds around Meeting. RantWoman quite appreciates the plantings and quite appreciates the love behind the gesture. Again though, RantWoman is seasoning calls to grumble more vehemently about ever expanding zones of concrete.

Finally, RantWoman has been reading Barclay. RantWoman's mellowness Light of the Day on that: I'm not just being obstreperous and single-minded and, urk, possibly self-righteous. I'm submitting to God!

Maybe it would be easier for RantWoman just to try to be vegan?

A Lenten post about sacraments, worship, children, parents
http://weedragon.wordpress.com/2011/03/29/doing-our-own-things-alongside-one-another/



A post about joy in finding like-minded seekers among Friends
http://www.quakerquaker.org/profiles/blogs/should-this-be-harder