happy easter

here's an easter poem...for what? uhmm, because holidays are always lovely, but we must never forget the true reason for each season.

<Summer Breeze's and Cereals' comment is now reverberating in my brain: religious ka kasi.>

Seven Stanzas at Easter
By John Updike

Make no mistake: if He rose at all
it was as His body;
if the cells' dissolution did not reverse, the
molecules
reknit, the amino acids rekindle,
the Church will fall.

It was not as the flowers,
each soft Spring recurrent;
it was not as His Spirit in the mouths and fuddled
eyes of the eleven apostles;
it was as His Flesh: ours.

The same hinged thumbs and toes,
the same valved heart
that - pierced - died, withered, paused, and then
regathered out of enduring Might
new strength to enclose.

Let us not mock God with metaphor,
analogy, sidestepping transcendence;
making of the event a parable, a sign painted in the
faded credulity of earlier ages:
let us walk through the door.

The stone is rolled back, not papier-mache,
not a stone in a story,
but the vast rock of materiality that in the slow
grinding of time will eclipse for each of us
the wide light of day.

And if we will have an angel at the tomb,
make it a real angel,
weighty with Max Planck's quanta, vivid with hair,
opaque in the dawn light, robed in real linen
spun on a definite loom.

Let us not seek to make it less monstrous,
for our own convenience, our own sense of beauty,
lest, awakened in one unthinkable hour, we are
embarrassed by the miracle,
and crushed by remonstrance.

the friday five for april 18

yeah, yeah, my friday five is pretty late already but i was underwater so how could i post answer? better late than never *grin*

1. Who is your favorite celebrity?

tough one. lemme enumerate. they're all my favorites for all different reasons. brandon boyd. john cusack. edward norton. joshua jackson. scott speedman. sandra bullock. kate hudson. al pacino. meg ryan. pete sampras. keanu reeves. meryl streep. katharine hepburn. susan sarandon. the beatles. joni mitchell. tori amos. (i'll add over the next few days.)

2. Who is your least favorite?

oooh, i have lots. britney spears. justin timberlake. backstreet boys. linkin park. johnny knoxville. tom green. carson daly. geri halliwell. serena williams.

3. Have you ever met or seen any celebrities in real life?

hmm, since i work in the media industry, i've met a lot of celebrities. but celebrities of my country alone. heck, some of them go to the same gym as i do and they enter the gym with an air of arrogance. harumph. oops, this is off topic already.

anyways, as for celebrities not of my country, jennifer paige and stephen gately.

4. Would you want to be famous? Why or why not?

i had a similar conversation a few weeks ago. i think i'd rather be rich than be famous. hee hee. so my answer to question # 4 would be "no". plus the word "famous" is a relative word :D

5. If you had to trade places with a celebrity for a day, who would you choose and why?

this is a hard one. i've been racking my brains for a few minutes already. i think i'd like to be oprah winfrey so that i can get all her billions and then put it in my savings account. then i'll be a billionaire like her! mwahahahaha *evil laughter*