LET'S TALK TURKEY

I made a sincere Facebook promise that if my blog ever was read in ten countries, I would post a picture of my dirty laundry. When my audience stats crept past that mark, I was kind of excited and kind of depressed. Depressed, because my mother-in-law had just washed all my laundry and I didn’t actually have the usual Rocky Mountain high pile I was so looking forward to showing off. Excited, because, well… except for a bus trip to Kansas on a choir tour, I’ve never really been outside of Canada.

I make myself very vulnerable in this space, and I try not to think about where the words are going to end up, or how they may be interpreted. I’ve always been somewhat of an emotional exhibitionist – but every once in a while someone will leave me a comment that affects me, makes me aware of the deeply intimate, makes me think about getting a bigger fig leaf. It reminds me what a small, small world it is that we live in, and how personal our struggles truly are.

Even so, I do believe voice is given to be shared, and I believe in the freedom that comes from acknowledging and honouring what can only be common human experience.

So in celebration of Earth Day, the shedding of fig leaves, Spring thaw, bare feet, muddy floors, and the murder of crows perched in the tree outside my window, and because I am sincerely grateful to all of you who have taken the time to read my blog, I thought I would use this opportunity to share a few of my very favourite comments from kind souls in an assortment of countries that I will almost certainly never visit in the flesh. Pardon the run-on sentence, I’m just so excited. I hope you find them as inspirational as I do. One love.

Anonymous wrote: Thanks for the good writeup. It actually used to be a amusement account it. Look complex to far brought agreeable from you! However, how could we keep in touch?

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Isn’t that just so true? I mean, how could we keep in touch? It’s kind of like that old saying: a bird may love a fish, but where will they make a home? The wisdom for that complex life mystery reads almost like a tagline – sometimes you just have to run for the border. Deep words, Anonymous. I hear you. Thank you.

Anonymous wrote: I all the time used to read paragraph in news papers but now as I am a user of net therefore from now I am using net for content, thanks to web.

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This simple confession about being a user of nets and webs reminded me so much of Peter – you know, casting his nets on the wrong side of the boat. And really, aren’t we all ultimately fishing for something? Yet you never can presuppose what that net will pull up. Life is a perilous voyage in a vessel of wood, and we are prone to getting snagged, stuck and rolled up in even the simplest of temptations - Mexican food. Thanks, Anonymous.  

And then there’s this one, left on one of my more intimately personal posts, Bobbed Hair, Bossy Wives and Women Preachers – which appears to be a fan favourite in Turkey. It reads so simply:

Anonymous wrote: I'm gone to convey my little brother, that he should also go to see this blog on regular basis to obtain updated from most recent news.

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Sniff. See what I mean? Yes, precious one, you tell your little brother. You tell your brother and one hundred and fifteen of your closest friends. Spread the most recent news...

It's all simply smashing.

Je t’aime.

Dirty laundry soon to follow.