Comments on: The Souls Of Inanimate Objects

By: Bríghid

Bríghid — Tue, 10 Jun 2008 20:42:32 +0000

I came across this post by accident, and it brought a big grin to my face. Thank you for sharing, and thanks for the book recommendation, too.

By: fausto

fausto — Tue, 13 Nov 2007 02:35:58 +0000

Ah, at last, a worthy successor to The Deacon’s Masterpiece!

By: god guurrll

god guurrll — Mon, 12 Nov 2007 13:48:40 +0000

My partner tells me that my relationship to inanimate objects is co-dependant. Wait until I tell her about you!

You crack me up PB.

By: h sofia

h sofia — Mon, 12 Nov 2007 05:22:52 +0000

Don’t let the advertisers hear about this!

By: Michael

Michael — Mon, 12 Nov 2007 05:05:07 +0000

So, sometimes when I am in the supermarket… I pick up a can of something, let’s say… Baked Beans. Then, if I reach for another can instead of the one I touched first… the first can calls out to me with hurt feelings. So then I buy the first one. Sometimes, the second can gets upset and I have to buy that one too. I return home and my partner asks me… “Why do you buy two of everything!?” to which I OBVIOUSLY reply… “They were on sale!”

By: pp le c

pp le c — Mon, 12 Nov 2007 04:41:00 +0000

PeaceBang, you should see “Lars and the Real Girl.” A socially-inept man develops a relationship with a blow-up doll. He walks around with it and introduces the doll (Bianca) to everybody in his small town as his girlfriend.He brings it to a party. He takes it to church. They all kind of go along with it, because he is obviously working out his anxieties about relationship and, it IS his first girlfriend after all. Talk about an inanimate object with a soul. There are some really hilarious moments with the doll, as well as some very poignant ones!

(This is the movie Mark and I saw after you and I left Home Goods).

By: Lizard Eater

Lizard Eater — Mon, 12 Nov 2007 01:36:37 +0000

Sounds wonderful! And if YOU would like a book recommendation for whilst you are lolling on your chaise … “Touch” by Rudy Rasmus. He’s a minister and seems to be the type you like most — the type that’s willing to roll up his sleeves and really work for “the least of these.”

By: Patrick McLaughlin

Patrick McLaughlin — Mon, 12 Nov 2007 01:06:19 +0000

Trust me, PB–it’s very happy too.

By: Rev Bee

Rev Bee — Mon, 12 Nov 2007 01:06:02 +0000

Ah, you should take a day-off drive to my 200-year old Rectory here in Connecticut. This house was downright depressed when we moved in. (We think it was lonesome and feeling neglected.) It made gloomy spooky sounds and looked dirty no matter what. Once we moved in, arranged furniture, and started sweeping cobwebs, pruning bushes, and making noise in it, I swear it perked up and started feeling better. It really feels like a different house now. One of my parishoners told me she thought the house had been depressed and felt better when people lived here.

I don’t know if I would call it a soul, but I do believe it has its own spirit. It’s a much wilder, different sort of spirit than humans or animals, but this house does have feelings.

Let’s not submit this comment to my Bishop, eh?