about that pope
You know, Pope John Paul II has been alive and kicking my whole life. And very saliently so. It's not like I had this majorly catholic upbringing, but my grandmother was pretty religious and I spent a ton of time with her. She went to see the Pope once and he was always a really important figure to her. His death is another one of the those surrealistic experiences I can't quite explain. You know it happened but you are not sure if there is something you should be doing about it.
I think I felt the same way when Mother Teresa and Princess Diana died. Strange. Flashbulb-ish. Smiley commemorated it by drawing horns and what-not on the full-page picture of his holiness in the newspaper at breakfast yesterday.
The funny thing is that it crossed my mind that perhaps the reason there was a huge spread was cuz he died, but then I figured I'd have heard about it..it wasn't until like 10pm that I heard about it....weird...I always miss things like that. Anyway, I wonder who's taking over.
I think I felt the same way when Mother Teresa and Princess Diana died. Strange. Flashbulb-ish. Smiley commemorated it by drawing horns and what-not on the full-page picture of his holiness in the newspaper at breakfast yesterday.
The funny thing is that it crossed my mind that perhaps the reason there was a huge spread was cuz he died, but then I figured I'd have heard about it..it wasn't until like 10pm that I heard about it....weird...I always miss things like that. Anyway, I wonder who's taking over.
posted by Camel at 10:24 a.m.
1 Comments:
i wonder who's going to take over too!!
You know, i've never witnessed a pope being chosen, so to me, this is history in the making! I've only read about it in books, but now i actually get to see the white smoke!! (on tv of course *sigh*) hehe..
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