Due to school-related stress, I've abstained from my regular post for the past two weeks. But ALAS, I am back on one of the highest notes of my short lived fashion mega consumer life.
So all weekend I've been on a quest to find the perfect dress for Junior Ring Ceremony, a little commencement service at the end of the year to commemorate the transition from junior to senior year. Oh, and you get to walk the seemingly endless length of half the gym while your peers, parents, and teachers all gawk at you.
Needless to say, I made it my mission to find something special to wear for this occasion. I drove myself to one of my favorite stores, Buffalo Exchange, on Saturday to assess the selection.
To my great dissatisfaction..I STRUCK OUT with dresses. Nothing was in my size, nothing was in this DECADE. But let me just say, I walked out of that store with one of the luckiest purchases of my life.
I've blogged before about the colossal comeback of clogs. As seen in Vogue, countless designers have modernized the most popular shoe of the 1970s. Michael Kors in particular came up with a design that caught my attention.
On the average, these brand-spankin'-new Michael Kors clogs would cost $120.00
In the wonderful world of Buffalo Exchange, these adorable shoes cost me a cool $24!
(I hope you enjoy my low budget photography)
I just about keeled over with shock when I saw these shoes chilling on the size 7 rack (my exact size, my feet were pleased). Any who, I hope people read this post and go to Buffalo Exchange.
I also have a pair of Marc by Marc Jacobs flats, $30 from Buffalo.
While I exhausted myself walking around malls and stores all weekend, I also finished the critically acclaimed best seller--When Bad Things Happen to Good People.
Harold S. Kushner pens this fantastic mash up of philosophy/theology/poignant anecdotes/and humanizing truths that make a stubborn, organized-religion-hater (me), begin to reevaluate my position on spirituality.
I couldn't possibly showcase all of the brilliant philosophy Kushner uses in this book, but I'll start with one of my favorite quotes.
"Surgeons stick knives into people to help them, but not everyone that sticks a knife into another person is a surgeon."
In his book, Kushner attempts to philosophize the real role of God in our lives. In the fifteen seconds I took to read a blurb on this book, of course I wondered how effective it would be since I do not consider myself a religious person.
However, I believe Kushner wrote this book precisely for people that are on the fence about God. In countless passages, the devout rabbi questions God in ways that I didn't believe religiously ordained men could.
He divides the book into eight sections such as "Why Do the Righteous Suffer?" and "God Leaves Us Room to be Human".
An impressive point Kushner makes deals with the creation story of Adam and Eve.
"God confronted them (Adam and Eve) with their disobedience and punished them in the following ways:
-They must leave the garden and no longer eat the fruit of the Tree of Life. (They do not die that day, but are told that they will now bear children and die, instead of living forever.)
-Eve will find the process of bearing and raising children painful. ('I will greatly multiply your pain and anguish; in pain you will bring forth children.')
-Adam will have to work to grow food instead of merely finding it on trees. ('By the sweat of your brow will you earn your bread')
-There will be sexual tension between men and women. ('Your desire will be for your husband, but he will rule over you') "
In this passage, and in subsequent passages, Kushner attempts to explain his view on the creation story. It was with Adam and Eve that God gave man more responsibility than he did animals. The word "sin" is not used in the Bible until the story of Cain and Abel. Kushner uses this focal point to twist the creation story into a landmark of growth rather than man's shameful first sin.
I could go on for ages, because Kushner also makes enlightened points about what humans expect from a God that may not be able to do the things expected of him, while speculating that God suffers and grieves with his people--and is always there to help afterward.
I'd like to thank MASON WALKER for turning me on to this wonderful book. It's perfect for anyone dealing with loss, grief, or anyone hungry for intense thought.
I'll say toodles now and leave you all with a closing thought from Kushner himself:
"I think of life as a good book. The further you get into it, the more it begins to make sense.”
Night :D
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