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Pushing fifty...gently...if I can find my glasses.
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I'm nearly fifty years old, and if it's all heading south, as they say, I'm going to sit back and enjoy the ride! My thoughts can be whimsical, scathing, sorrowful, hilarious, contemplative ... I always try to see through unclouded eyes ...
Recent Posts Tagged With 'humanity'
Wise and beautiful rage ...
... fires through this essay by Adrian Worsfold, via the Episcopal Café.Somehow the heart is dying inside Christianity, Adrian writes, so that it becomes a pointless husk, where some of its core messages are tossed aside in order to promote one inst...
Climate change in your neighbourhood ... ?
It's December 1st ... and a big, blue bottlefly was buzzing around my balcony this morning. The grass is naked and ... green ... The wind's out of the southwest and the sky looks July-ish -- big, fluffy, soft-edged cumulus clouds. Last month was the ...
Of war and elephants*
Modern warfare is not natural; our bellicose human habits violate long-evolved prosocial norms shared by animals everywhere, including the mighty, brainy elephant. Elephant society only fell victim to "soldier's heart" when culls, poaching, and habit...
I weep ...
... and I suspect that the president did, too, when he returned to the White House after today's pre-dawn ceremony to receive and honour 18 soldiers who were recently killed in Afghanistan ...More here... ...
I don\'t know whether to laugh or cry in the long run ...
... but right now, I'm losing it like a kid who's farted in church. That photo makes me explode. (With laughter!)What you see is a motorized La-Z-Boy chair. Its owner, adaptor and operator was recently busted for a DWI in Duluth, Minnesota. Seems th...
My two cents about the Nobel Peace Prize
My first thought upon reading the news of Barack Obama's Nobel Peace Prize win was, "For the man he chooses to be, he deserves it." For what he's accomplished ... I think he's done what he can so far. I can't imagine the push and pull the man experie...
9/11
I wrote a post a year ago, commemorating the day ... and celebrating my brother's survival through it. He, a captain with United Airlines, was flying out of an east coast city that morning, but I didn't know which one ...About two hours after my brot...
(Moves my heart ... )
Read this and pass it on ASAP ...
A sane, measured, heartrending post that to my eye, says it all about the cruel idiocy -- "Obama's a Nazi!" -- taking root in some people ... Thank you, Jeannie, for composing this story ...Read with the eyes of your heart, and then pass it on ... pr...
When we choose a belief over a bond, we rupture our relations
Utah Savage has composed an exquisite elegy to a long-ago friend ... This piece, brief as it is, haunts me ... I've experienced a similar attrition in my bond with a sibling whom I used to be very close with ...It breaks the heart (and boggles the mi...
Better late than never ... a Fourth of July reflection
Thank you, America, for your Declaration of Independence. It is a reverent, meaningful ideal to so many who live outside your borders ...True independence, I think, has something to do with right relation ...There are times when we need to strike out...
We're all in this together, Iran ...
Song: "Let the Earth Bear Witness", by Mike Scott of the Waterboys(h/t to Andrew Sullivan for the video ... http://andrewsullivan.theatlantic.com)...
Please ... watch this video ... and then do whatever you can ...
... It brought me to tears. The numbers are staggering ... About 42 MILLION people have been displaced from their homes, their communities, their cultures ... their families.42 million people. That's nearly 10 million more than the population of Cana...
