Learning Ecclesiastes
The epic telling at this year's NOBS gathering is the Old Testament book of Ecclesiastes. Plus our small storytelling group suggested we tell stories of confession since we're now in the season of Lent. Ecclesiastes seems to me a confession of the human condition, so I thought I'd give it a go and see how far into it I get. Now that I've told half of chapter one to some encouraging friends, I feel spurred on to learn more of this marvelous story or quest. Like what happens after choir practice, I tend to sing the anthems during the week, I find myself mulling over the images that The Teacher has created: "meaningless, vanity, wearying, tiresome, nothing new under the sun'. I'm having fun with this thinking of the images evoked, rather than memorizing the words. I hope to have the first chapter ready to tell and then weave in a story from my experience.
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I've done some traveling and continue to do so. I've also learned several languages along the way. In many places people greet me with 'Where are you going?' rather than 'Hi'. In a couple places the answer was 'just meandering,' hence this blog's name.
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I am reminded of Ray Bradbury's Fahrenheit 451 in which futuristic "firemen" are employed to burn books, not put out fires.
I won't spoil the story in case you haven't read it, but at the end the hero meets a group of people that memorize books. Each person is assigned a book for life, and they become known as that book. The memorize the entire thing so that no one can destroy it by burning it.
The hero gets his life assignment: Ecclesiastes.
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