My daughter the New Age guru.

[rivka]

Alex brought me a sheet of paper and said proudly, "I wrote a story."

I looked at it.



"Would you tell me what it says?" I asked. And she narrated:

Everything is possible because of God.
What if God is everything? If God is everything, than everybody is everything.
Everybody is so familiar, because they're everything.
Everybody is sailing on one big spaceship through the air, and that spaceship is called the world.
And we should be perfect in the lights of the truth.
And all the children should get to play, and the grownups should get to play with them.

("It's turning into a song now," she said then, and finished up by singing.)

Everybody needs the world
The world is so happy.

"Can I share your story with my computer friends?" I asked. She nodded.

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[rivka.livejournal.com]

Then she went off and wrote another story, which began:

"In the pollute of happiness and the warmth of love, we are all the same thing: a person."

"Pursuit of happiness?" I suggested.

"No. Pollute."

[jonquil.livejournal.com]

Awwww. I love your little Unitarian.

[ex-serenejo.livejournal.com]

Please tell Alex that I liked her story a lot, and if you want to you can tell her that I don't even believe in God, but liked her story a lot, anyway. (It won't bother me at all if you don't tell her that.)

[laurent-atl.livejournal.com]

zizek would ba fascinated

[ljgeoff.livejournal.com]

I love that it turned into a song. Also, I love "the pollute of happiness" because she is right-- how human it is to pollute our happiness.

Thank you, Alex.

[txanne.livejournal.com]

We are starstuff! Please tell her that I enjoyed her story a lot.

[juliansinger.livejournal.com]

My goodness. That's a UU you've got there.

[ruisseau.livejournal.com]

Take her to GA! ;)

[wcg.livejournal.com]

Everything is beautiful, in its own way.

[ookpik.livejournal.com]

I was strongly reminded of Peter Mayer's Blue Boat Home (http://www.thegreatstory.org/songs/blueboat.html)--has Alex heard that, perhaps, in church or elsewhere?

[curiousangel.livejournal.com]

It's one of my favorite UU hymns; we only recently got the teal songbooks at church, and we've only sung it once there, but we've played it a lot around the house. She might also have heard it in her RE class, too.

[rivka.livejournal.com]

It turns out that there's a poster on the nursery school wall that says "our spaceship the earth."

[ailbhe]

That's nice. I particularly like the sequel.

[minnehaha.livejournal.com]

Why no more Alex and math posts? I miss those. (Not that the non-math stuff isn't interesting, too.)

B

[rivka.livejournal.com]

I spun the educational stuff off into a separate blog (http://tinderbox.homeschooljournal.net), because I figured it was going to get more frequent and I wanted to give people the opportunity to avoid it.

[minnehaha.livejournal.com]

Isn't the normal solution to create a filter? There's no way I'm going to remember to go to a different site, and I would like to read it.

Or -- maybe -- can you create a LiveJournal feed?

I miss all that stuff.

B

[rivka.livejournal.com]

Isn't the normal solution to create a filter?

Well, eventually - like when we're homeschooling - I'm going to want to share it with people who probably shouldn't be reading my LJ. Like my mother.

But there is an RSS feed for LJ: tinderbox_blog.

[trope.livejournal.com]

Tell Alex that your computer friends love this.