from this morning’s gathering (physics gaffe duly noted)
we’re trained toward economy
hoarding, scrimping, saving
but we’ve hear rumors
that there’s another way
that we can taste and feel
and be richly sustained
by wasting Saturday mornings
missing must-see TV
singing poorly into a fat mic
feeding the hungry and hosting the ungrateful
circling around a center
to be flung off by centrifugal force
to love family and friends
to enter into the travail of the Other
to write them into the story of God
saving life by losing it
gaining something priceless by giving away
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Did you say “centripetal” this morning? I didn’t notice. I bet P3T3 did.
In any event, *snap*
Hee. I actually noticed. I suck.
But far stronger was my sense — again — that you’re quite the poet, Mike. And thank you SO much for sharing these gems. They are good stuff.
now wait just a doggone minute…
I consulted my trusty Moleskine ™, which clearly says ‘centrifugal’. So unless I had a Freudian slip, I’m pretty sure I read it as written. It’s just that my subsequent research showed that it is *not* centrifugal force that flings an object out of an orbit, but rather a *lack* of centripetal force. Which, while precise, isn’t really that evocative, so I left my imprecision in there.
No centripetal’s right. (c’mon, Croghan!) I don’t understand why, even after re-reading the explanation. I just remember memorizing that factoid after some hard-core geek (probably my dad) mocked me for not knowing.
*shee*