oh take that veil from off of your eyes...

I have been running from it and I know that's not what I need to do. It is so rare that I get self-destructive that it was a tiny bit disorienting and difficult to recognize that that's precisely what's been happening. So, I am going to look at things straight on, and stop a potential tailspin before it starts.

I am researching stuff for the Shabbat service I'm leading this week, and meeting with Rena (the rabbi) in...oh dear me, 20 minutes. I found a transliterated Hebrew version of "We All Come From the G-ddess" which I would really love to use. I have to strike a balance though, yknow? I think my focus is going to be on the Shekhinah, and see how it opens up from there. I want to do some different songs/versions of songs and prayers in addition to the recognizable and beautiful favorites, and I would really like to have short little meditations in between songs. I don't know how it will work. I'm so used to doing ritual where you can at least cast a circle and raise some energy in a really focused and obviou way- so I think one way to do that in this Shabbos context is to create sacred space by means of all of us focusing our intent at the beginning, and raising energy through singing and davening (which I will actually pronounce correctly ;)). Maybe it could even be explicit that what we are doing by praying and singing is simultaneously praising and evoking the divine.

Also I found a not-so-patristic version of Adon Olam called "Elat Olam." It seems cool but I don't know what all of it means--so if any of you (ahem, Ren, Reich, Noah...) would be willing to try to translate it for me I'd really appreciate it.

Okay, I gotta go!

the truly silly philosphy post

First, I think it's hilarious whenever Heidegger writes something whose title involves the word "basic," as in Basic Concepts etc. Please.

Secondly, I just found out that Alphonso Lingis teaches Philosophy at Penn State. What the fuck. That is so random.

Okay I am obviously in a ridiculously dorky mood. I'm exhausted even though it's only 10 (granted I got around 5 hours of sleep last night, but still) and I'm valiantly (ha) trying to get some bibliography work done for McCarthy before my meeting with him in 11 hours. Errrgh I want to climb into bed and read Genealogy of Morals. I think that's quite enough now. I just need to make it look like I've accomplished something diligently gather some more bibliographic entries and then I can go to bed.