Mike's musings

Clap, clap, clap

So, by this morning, she was clapping like a mad thing. Anything that's funny gets clapped out, and Carolyn (her nanny) says that she spent most of the day clapping and waving at things. She met her friend Bailey, and thought that the stacking (and subsequent knocking over) of bricks is hilarious. Moo was away from 0730 to 1810 or so: the longest she's been away from Jo. Jo was very, very happy to see both of us: it's fantastic how she can show joy and excitement. I so look forward to her being able to speak, but there's already so much she can tell us.

Just finished reading the second of two pieces on the canonicity of the Old Testament. Neither of the articles dealt extensively with the questions that I find most interesting: those of authorship and authority, though the second (by Sanders) had a brief discussion on "Canon and inspiration" which at least touched on it for a couple of paragraphs. Sanders raised the question of bibliolatry - a form of idolatry where too much emphasis is given to the canon, and there is a (fundamentalist) refusal to engage critically with the text qua text.

On a different note altogether, we had no tricking or treating today, I'm pleased to say. Or if we did, it was before Moo or I got home, so I suspect that Carolyn will have ignored it. It seems such a manufactured, artificial thing in the UK: it may work in the US, but not here, as far as I've been able to divine.