read, read, repeat

I really can't believe it is October! Where did my summer go?  Why is fall barreling down upon us and pretty soon it will be Christmas.

I know many of you are saying "Quit rushing Christmas, Strawberry!" but it is truly right around the corner.

Guess what else is upon me?  My seminary semester!  Classes officially start next week but true to form, many of us are already reading.  You see, we have lives outside of class and well, our first week's assignment is to read a whole book!  The teacher assigned 165 pages and although that doesn't seem like much, the wordage on the pages seem to repeat themselves....over and over.  Here's an example taken from The Fall to Violence (Marjorie Hewitt Suchocki) page 34: The transcendent infinity envisioned by Niebuhr was a boundless infinity without number; the still transcendent infinity encountered within finitude is a boundless infinity with number.  And so the whole chapter continues with infinity and finitude!!!  This book is definitely taking an "infinity" to read with no "finitude" in sight.  sheesh.  So I tend to reread sentences because my eyes glaze over and the repetition of certain words (infinity and finitude/ posit/ well-being) repeated in each sentence make it harder to focus on just one sentence knowing that those same dang words will be in the next sentence and the next....(whew, deep breath).

Why is it Christmas is around the corner, but the end of this book is ages away?

Sort of like dishes and laundry.  Wait, didn't I just wash those shirts?  We seem to have more glasses and coffee mugs in the dishwasher than plates and pots; a telling sign we are eating out more.  Recently I've noticed more plates and dishes.  Good sign!

So, today is an ordinary day with ordinary tasks.  I am now on page 82 in my book and only heaven knows what I've read.  That's the problem; when an author uses words or phrases ad nauseum I tend to glaze over them.  Probably exactly what you are doing with this blog post today!