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The Brokie Connection (a game)
Front-Ranger:
Okay, friend, I will take you up on that. In the song Dream On, sung by Aerosmith, someone is definitely regretting the passage of time and opportunities left unrealized:
--- Quote ---Every time that I look in the mirror
All these lines on my face getting clearer
The past is gone
It went by, like dusk to dawn
Isn't that the way
Everybody's got their dues in life to pay
Yeah, I know nobody knows
Where it comes and where it goes
I know it's everybody's sin
You got to lose to know how to win
Half my life
Is in books' written pages
Lived and learned from fools and
From sages
You know it's true
All the things come back to you
--- End quote ---
Even though Ennis said he didn't want to s-a-a-n-g, he knew the salty words to Strawberry Roan, and maybe his salty tears fell as he sat in the Mint Bar that night and watched two cowboys playing pool with each other, thinking these words:
--- Quote ---Sing with me, sing for the year
Sing for the laugh, sing for the tears
Sing with me, if it's just for today
Maybe tomorrow, the good lord will take you away, yeah
Yeah, sing with me, sing for the year
Sing for the laugh, sing for the tear
Sing with me, if it's just for today
Maybe tomorrow, the good Lord will take you away
Dream On Dream On Dream On
Dream until the dream come true
Dream On Dream On Dream On
Dream until your dream comes true
--- End quote ---
Next: Dale's Pale Ale
BayCityJohn:
Dale's Pale Ale
Brewed by: Oskar Blues
Need I say more?
Dale's Pale Ale is very Brokeish.
Next: january 6
Penthesilea:
January 6 is Epiphany, and Ennis indeed had some moments of epiphany towards the end of the story (lake scene argument, bus station, Twist house). Sadly, it was too late. :(
Thus, January 6 is clearly Brokieish.
Next: Lions
BayCityJohn:
--- Quote from: Penthesilea on December 10, 2009, 03:02:51 am ---January 6 is Epiphany, and Ennis indeed had some moments of epiphany towards the end of the story (lake scene argument, bus station, Twist house). Sadly, it was too late. :(
Thus, January 6 is clearly Brokieish.
--- End quote ---
YES! i was thinking of this:
Epiphany on Brokeback Mountain
Dr. David Jenkins, Candler School of Theology, Emory University, in Atlanta.
I wonder as I wander at the foot of Brokeback Mountain if the church has the capacity and courage to declare a Jubilee? – or an Epiphany? - a time and space in which it would listen to the sacred love stories of Jack and Ennis or any of its members, setting aside worn-out labels such as “homosexual” for words we understand: son, daughter, friend, neighbor, sister, brother, partner. Could we listen well to the flesh-and-blood stories of fear and desolation, joy, discovery, liberation, belonging, and love? Like the Truth and Reconciliation hearings in South Africa, could we bear to hear our own stories of crucifixion? Could we go to those places which have been off-limits to pulpits and pot-luck-suppers?
Listening to sacred stories is what we Christians are called to do. Perhaps if we listen well, we will be transformed both by the stories and by the Epiphany hope that with unexpected people God continues to surprise us - shock us - and continues to call us to off-limits places, continues to do A NEW THING in the world.
So how do I know when this new thing is of God? When the story is true. When the news is good. When the light shines in the darkness and the darkness cannot overcome it. At the moment we call Epiphany, while Herod’s death-dealing decree echoed through the land, the magis - excluded from the promise - arrived at the stable in the hills near Bethlehem and took their place beside the shepherds.
http://www.covenantnetwork.org/sermon&papers/jenkins.htm
Ellemeno:
Good ones, everyone!
As originator of the game, I decree that if you come on a bear this thread, and no one has posted a Next: in the last 5 minutes, if you don't see the person in the thread, you can go ahead and post the Next:. Folks, try to remember that part of posting an answer is also posting the Next:!
And feel free to just look around the room you're in to get an idea of what challenge to post. You don't have to have a pre-determined right answer. I saw a paper clip, chose it as the challenge, and southendmd gave a beautiful response I never would a thought of.
Now - what's Dale's Pale Ale and Oskar Blues? I'm ignernt.
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