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Saturday, June 09, 2007
There was once a duck...
This duck was a very homely duck. She hated the way she looked. Spotty feathers and a poor complexion, she always knew she would never amount to be anything more than aesthetically dull. Despite her best attempts to dress herself in trendy duck-clothes and use only the finest of poultry make-ups, she nonetheless remained plain. One day, this duck (whose name was Liz the Duck) was taking a walk in the magical forest called Sawtooth, when she encountered a pool that shimmered in an other-worldly glow she had never seen before. It was as if the moonlight had been captured and bottled into a wondrous new thing incomparable to any other substance she had ever seen. She stepped hesitantly into this fantastic thing she had discovered, unaware of what was to happen. As she dipped further in she felt herself transforming. Then she turned into a human. The end.
posted by -mike- at 2:25 PM
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8 Comments:
Hi Mike, I am Kathy. I was Googling a picture from the Jesus of Nazareth movie and wandered in here :) I just wanted to say, I love your St. Augustine quote, completely agree with your "Left Behind" stand and recommend a book to you, Velvet Elvis by Rob Bell, a wonderful (I think) take on living a Christian life in our modern society. I really think you would enjoy it. One last thing... In Liz the Duck...Isn't becoming human sort of the begining?
"I believe in a number of causes which I may die for, but none for which I would kill." Gandhi (paraphrased)
"Christian as a noun is a beautiful word, as an adjective, it's dangerous." Rob Bell (paraphrased)
Seriously, Mike... Who steps into a pool of a substance "incomparable to any other substance she had ever seen?"
Nobody. That's who. Your duck story is undone.
Additionally, the post below this compares you to a girl and it makes me giggle.
Joshua... I will slap you. She is a cute girl and I am a cute boy. Therefore, there is no problem. It is not comparing me to a girl but rather to a cute individual.
Jerk.
Obilio: Hi Kathy. I enjoyed Velvet Elvis. I read it for the first time in 2005. I have since re-read it. Thanks for introducing yourself.
:)
Peace kiddos!
Look... I'm just calling it as I see it. Much like the objective computer analysis called it as it saw it.
;-)
joshua.
it saw cute and it told it how it is.
cute.
cute cute cute.
the end.
Mike, while I found it most entertaining, I'm not sure is i completely understand your story.
It's an inside thing. You and your emo hair could never appreciate the amazingness of my life.
Michael, I love you.
Yes! Yes! Yes!
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