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It’s Time To Say “I Do” To Fireproof

Was surprised to see that Kirk Cameron made the Cascadia Weekly for his new feature: Fireproof @ the Regal Sunset. The brief synopsis: Kirk is a fireman. But his marriage is going up in flames. He takes a 40 days of purpose thingy. Probably saves his marriage in the end. There’s no hiding the subtle Christian overtones to this movie’s message, and the Cascadia was surprisingly tame in its review. The one star probably spoke enough damage to the movie. But it must definitely be a stirring challenge for many to fix our marriages in 40 days. I dunno. I don’t intend to watch it. Has anyone seen it? Intend to see it? Is it more star-worthy than the Cascadia gives it credit?

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Today I participated in the systemic oppression of the balloon people.

It was thru a little exercise w/my cohort @ Leadership Whatcom – and it was quite an experience to be the most-privileged, richest, elitist class of society in the room – albeit through roleplay. It awakened me to my own privilege, in terms of class, economically, socially. And while I’ve taken the victims’ stance many times a past, and complained of the oppressiveness under the privileged, it was surreal to have the tables turned – and I realized that I was complicit as well. America is complicit today when it comes to privilege in a global sense. Not to say we ought to be ashamed, but to face the reality that when our market crashes, so does the rest of the world. How can anyone say anymore that we don’t hold economic power over others? At any rate,

what are your thoughts on privilege, beit economic, gender, sexual orientation, race?

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like ours, Western Washington University still feel the impact of this weeks’ events. At least we do. Tech was Ash’s home for 4 years from ’94 – ’98. Moving to Bellingham was all too similar to living in Blacksburg. For these reasons and still some indescribable ones, we’ve been profoundly affected, even tho we are 3K miles away. Just can’t shake this feeling of sadness and everything seems grey this whole week. We’re gonna have a little mini-vigil of our own with Catalyst. That’s the best we can do.

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Edit:

Even closer to home now as we discover the killer’s identity to be Korean-American. Safe to say it is disturbing enough as it is. We will need to talk about this.

At Catalyst this week I think I’m going to need to talk about this and we are planning on having a small vigil.

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