On a side trip last year while camping my way to the west coast, I found myself casting up dust along a tooth-jarring washboard road across Nebraska’s badlands. After twenty miles I arrived at a gravel parking lot, from which a dirt path led down to a Monet-like pond. Glassy water mirrored sky, cattails, willow, […]
Little Celebrations #9: Liturgical Quotables
The seasons have cycled for billions of years. The sun ever journeys toward the next way station on the calendar, ever brings new light and warmth to the land. In the same spirit we gather weekly to share our own warmth and reflect on the greatness in which we are embedded. We celebrate processes beyond […]
Educated by a Rumpy Cat
He’s the cutest kitten you ever saw, at least until he stands up. Then you see something’s not right. He doesn’t quite look like a kitten. Maybe like a gerbil. Or like his name, “Little Bear.” About every six months, my better half, Kate, fosters a litter of kittens from the local animal shelter. It’s […]
Little Celebrations #8: Liturgical Quotables
We arrive here out of many walks of life. We wear clothing of different patterns and our feet go in boots or shoes or sandals. Some read magazines, others read novels, still others read technical works or works of history. But gathered in community our hearts beat together, we laugh together, our tears are of […]
A Neil deGrasse Tyson “Religion” Blooper
I love Neil deGrasse Tyson. I love his wit and enthusiasm, particularly because he usually combines them with impeccable logic and factual accuracy. I say “usually” because if you watch carefully, you can catch even Neil deGrasse Tyson in a blooper now and then. Case in point is an otherwise excellent lecture he delivered in […]
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