* I buried my Dad four weeks ago. I’m still getting used to speaking of him in past tense. And even though it was a long battle with cancer, it still seems too early. During the past month, five of my friends’ fathers also died. I’ve heard sometimes people die in batches (think Hendrix, Joplin, [...]
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Radiate
April 5, 2012
* I lean in tight Microscopically close Squint at your nano-workings And gasp. I soar out Trillions of light years up Absorb your cosmic process And marvel. You radiate. Teaching, without words That we are each other. Thank you. *** image source: Kari J. Young, “Metamorphosis”
So, I Guess That Was 2011?
December 31, 2011
* And so it is done. Whoop-dee-freakin’ doo. Long year that blurred by in about three seconds. For me at least. A year of construction, deconstruction, and reconstruction. One of learning about myself, who I really am and what I really want, and don’t want. One of appreciating others in my life and coming into [...]
Can We Come Together?
December 16, 2011
R.I.P., Christopher Hitchens, April 13, 1949 – December 15, 2011 (Image from his last article, featured in Vanity Fair) Believers and nonbelievers both have at least one thing in common: We all feel there’s something broken, something wrong with the world. We may disagree on what that brokenness is, but bickering over that makes no [...]
