The Frith: BOTTLES

Tuesday, April 15, 2008

BOTTLES

FRITH AND MAMA WERE WALKING PAST THIS VACANT LOT YESTERDAY ON OUR WAY TO OMI'S HOUSE. FRITH NOTICED THAT THERE WERE LOTS OF BOTTLES LYING AROUND (MOSTLY OF THE LARGE WHITE PLASTIC DETERGENT OR WASHER FLUID VARIETY) AND THAT THIS LOOKED MESSY. MAMA AGREED. FRITH THEN POINTED OUT THAT SOMEBODY SHOULD PICK THE BOTTLES UP. MAMA AGREED. WHO SHOULD PICK THEM UP FRITH?

SHE THOUGHT ABOUT THIS FOR A WHILE :

OMI SHOULD.

3 comments:

Jennie said...: This story made me laugh and completely obliterated the bad day I'd been having.
From now on whenever someone asks me who should do something my reply will be "Omi should".
xo; April 15, 2008 9:23 p.m.
The Frith said...: i'm glad it made you happy auntie jennie!

frith also made my day today, when i was pulling her behind me in the wagon. she said MAMA SHOULD TURN AROUND SO CAN SEE HER BEAUTIFUL FACE.

sniff :); April 15, 2008 9:27 p.m.
Jennie said...: Aww! Give her a big kiss and a big hug from me!
Cutestbeanever!!; April 17, 2008 7:08 p.m.

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DERIVING FROM THE ANCIENT WORD "PRIYAS" MEANING "ONE'S OWN", FRITH'S ORIGINAL MEANING WAS PROBABLY SOMETHING LIKE "THE PEACE ENJOYED WHILE AMONG ONE'S OWN FAMILY OR TRIBE" .. FRITH IS OFTEN TRANSLATED SIMPLY AS "PEACE".

THE FULL MEANING OF FRITH ENCOMPASSES PEACE BUT EXTENDS WELL BEYOND IT, TO COVER A LARGE PORTION OF THE MOST MEANINGFUL AND ESSENTIAL FOUNDATIONS OF HUMAN SOCIAL LIFE. THE TERM FRITH CAPTURED A HUGE PROPORTION OF EVERYTHING GOOD THAT COULD EXIST IN LIFE, AND ALL OF THESE GREW OUT OF THE ROOTS OF THE KINDRED ITSELF -- THE KINDRED RELATIONSHIP.

ANCIENT VIKINGS WOULD INVOKE AN AGREEMENT AMONG ALL PRESENT THAT ARGUMENTS AND DISAGREEMENTS ARE LEFT 'OUTSIDE' THE DOOR DURING CELEBRATION : A 'PROMISE' TO KEEP FRITH. ANYBODY WHO DID NOT RESPECT THIS WOULD HAVE LOST FACE AND ALSO HONOUR. IN THE OLDEN DAYS ONE WOULD HAVE TO LEAVE ALL WEAPONS OUTSIDE, TO ENSURE THAT DISCUSSIONS DIDN'T END IN BLOODSHED. SO FRITH IS AN AGREEMENT AMONG SEVERAL PEOPLE WHO RESPECT EACH OTHER TO KEEP 'PEACE'.

FRITH DOES NOT MEAN THAT WE SHOULD ALL GET ALONG; IT MEANS THAT WE SHOULD ALL STAND, AND ACT, FOR SOMETHING REAL AND MEANINGFUL, AND THAT THOSE OF US WHO FIND OURSELVES STANDING FOR ENOUGH OF THE SAME IMPORTANT THINGS SHOULD STAND TOGETHER, IN LIFELONG COMMITMENTS WITHOUT CONSTANTLY WEIGHING THE BENEFITS AGAINST THE COSTS.

IN ESSENCE, FRITH IS NOT AN ABSENCE, BUT A PRESENCE. IT IS NOT THE ABSENCE OF STRIFE; RATHER IT FILLS THE SPACES BETWEEN PEOPLE WITH SOMETHING THAT IS STRONGER AND MORE IMPORTANT, MORE MEANINGFUL, THAN STRIFE.

FRITH IS AN ACTIVE, DELIBERATE, MINDFUL PEACE.

The Frith

Tuesday, April 15, 2008

BOTTLES

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