We tend to want to put things in their boxes to be able to find them, and to know where everything fits. Or at least some people think that way. Some people are only capable of organizing their socks in a drawer by color. Others can organize the pantry. What one person can do better the other person often ignores.
I was thinking of how we knew my grandmother had visited. We could find nothing. She would come over and totally re-organize the kitchen. Everything was still there. It would make sense to her. But everything was be in a different place.
Is that the way we are in theology? Philosophy? Cooking? Organizing our library? (You do have a library, don’t you?) Doing your laundry? Think of how much hostility would be eliminated if we would simply assume it is a matter of putting ideas in different colored bags.
Are some people incapable of organizing? Maybe our way, but if they were totally out to lunch they would never have any lunch to eat.
Patience.
homo unius libri
Monday, April 22, 2024
Opus 2024-085: Organization
Subscribe to:
Post Comments (Atom)
No comments:
Post a Comment
Comments are welcome. Feel free to agree or disagree but keep it clean, courteous and short. I heard some shorthand on a podcast: TLDR, Too long, didn't read.