But in the meantime, as I was doing laundry yesterday, I pulled something pink out of the pocket of a pair of jeans, which upon examination I remembered to be the same jeans I wore to the Ann Arbor art fair which I posted about earlier. (In case you're having concerns about my sanitation habits, since I went to the fair about two weeks ago, let me assure you that I haven't worn those since.)
What, I wondered, could this be. The front of the flyer (is that Elvis?):
and these two panels are the beginning of the inside:
Okay, I thought at this point... a seminar on the independent woman? A dating group? A dating group for divorcees? For cat owners? For lesbians?
Then I flipped to the next leaf (ohh, a Jewish dating site?) and then to the back. And then it all came back to me..
"Tired of putting your hopes and dreams in a man or woman? Accept God's gift to YOU."What is that implying? That I should accept Jesus in a cynical rebound from the dating world? That Jesus, unlike the dandies us girls are usually afflicted with, will not inspire cat-filled man-hatred? I mean, I've heard a lot, a lot, more than my share [believe me. school with traditional Catholics who all believe imperceptibly different obscure dogmas and argue about it.] of people making semi-outrageous and very contradictory claims about what God wants us to be doing, but never have I been told that he wants lay people to be celibate... At least their approach is originial, but it's a little, erm, strange. Where the hell did I get this flyer anyway?
Then, gradually, with unwilling recollection, it all came back to me. The women with pink shirts on the street corners of the Art Fair, pink shirts that had the words...jesus and kosher on them somewhere... had handed me this flyer, which I just stuffed in a pocket... I remembered thinking at the time, why are both those words on one shirt, and also, thank god my father is off his religious kick because we would probably be standing at the other street corner shouting over them.
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