Some random Clam thoughts
Kasia October 21st, 2007
First, one of the weirdest vehicles I’ve ever seen: a Dodge Ram Big Horn Edition in French vanilla. Gorgeous color on the right car, but on a big, manly truck it just looks like it has gender identity issues.
Second, euphemisms reach new heights in lunacy: at Warren and Conner there is actually a “Life-alysis Center”. I ask you, how ignorant do you have to be to be frightened of the word “dialysis”?
Third, note to self: next time you buy a missal in Canada and declare it at the border, just say “book”, not “missal”. Although a quick glance clears up the whole thing, it just isn’t worth the risk of being sent to Secondary and having a cavity search.
And from my friend Jenn - well, actually I have two friends named Jenn, so we’ll say from my Catholic friend Jenn - a funny but also apt image of what the Eucharist does for us:
“I just think about all the cells in my body, held together at the edges by the little amoebas, and all of my cells are kind of brownish and slimy, but every time I receive the Eucharist one or two of them get replaced with a shiny, healthy white one with GOD stamped on it.”
She’s full of endearingly quirky things like that. I have to admit sometimes I find it hard to keep up, as I’m not known for my scintillating wit. One just has to hope one isn’t too much of a disappointment.
A few months ago, I saw a pick-em-up truck in matte black. I haven’t seen a matte paint finish on a car in years. I have to admit, it looked very manly in a dirt under the fingernails, sweaty, gun-toting, but oddly sexy way. No gender identity issues there.
Using the term “life-alysis” isn’t so much of a euphemism as it is a state of mind. If you’ve ever actually
experienced dialysis you would understand how exhausting, how frightening, how draining the whole thing
can be. So some centres in the States have switched their names to Life-Alysis Centres in order to help
patients change their thinking…because positive thinking is 90% of the battle in any illness.
Perhaps a little bit more understanding and empathy on your part is needed.
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Thank you for the comment and the insight, Rachel. I’ve posted about this.
God bless,
Kasia