Sunday, March 16, 2008
What makes me uneasy about the Clinton ticket
is what has always troubled me about the Clintons: they come from a mindset of personal satisfaction, of a complacent sense of entitlement: that because they were the Golden Kids of their generation, anything they do is excuseable, is ultimately in the cause of Right. Things are said, and people have been fired, but the jury--that's us--we hear what we hear. As the saying goes, a bell cannot be unrung. When it is a member of a campaign staff that makes an outrageous remark, I always wonder who...
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Wednesday, March 12, 2008
Charlie and The Girls
This post was inspired by Nautikos' recent post about teen boys and the sensitivities thereof... Whatever he thought about at 16, he found it a lot safer to play with monsters than girls... And yet... If he is a geek, he is the geek to be! When he finally did choose to ask a girl out, he chose one he was actually interested in personally--which is to say, as a person. He was 20, I think... maybe 21. I asked him how he decided she was someone he wanted to get closer with, and he thought about it...
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Wednesday, February 13, 2008
that poem I mentioned..
BITTER GRAPES Wine was once upon a time divine but now, somehow, the elegance is soured as it's taken and devoured what I knew of you and thought was fine. You sleep it off, unconscious that the sabotage is done, today, tonight are gone, tomorrow spoken for with stumbling tongue and eyes that will not wake to see the morning sun and all its brightness shines upon. And do you miss me, in your sleep? Or miss the time together when we keep each other warm and close-- the time we shelter here...
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Tuesday, February 12, 2008
Twisting the rope...
...is an old tradition that comes out of Ireland. The wandering minstrel was a welcome guest who came into a house and sang for his supper, made himself useful, and stayed a while. Sometimes too long a while. After all, shelter and meals are not to be let go of lightly! Well, one cannot just hurl a troubador out into the weather. Not without repercussions: and do you want your name and your life to be the topic of such a one's next song, to be shared about the countryside? Especially with him...
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Wednesday, February 6, 2008
I hope you're all all right!
Life has been complicated lately, and I have not been paying much attention to the world outside this little corner of it... Just becoming aware of the devastating storms in the South-- I hope all our Blogit friends will check in when they can, and let us know how they are.
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Tuesday, February 5, 2008
a mood moment...
Winter Is Blue... Bleak and grey the winter day... Fire stubbornly won't start as if its heart ain't in it. Like mine, this dreary day, it would rather be away. Insisting, I bend down and breathe the glowing ember a-flame. Who will do the same for me?
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Monday, January 28, 2008
The First Stone
Nautikos and Lindo are engaged in a fascinating debate in Naut's religion blog. I highly recommend a field trip over there. They demonstrate what two intelligent, adult people can do with discussion of differences. To put this post more fully in context, that is the place to begin. This started as a comment in one of those items, but I have edited a bit and added a bit, and want to share it more widely as it goes so well in hand with my most recent posts on God, belief, and packaging. It is an...
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Sunday, January 27, 2008
What the hell are you voting for?
In my third grade mock election, I voted for John Kennedy because he was nicer-looking than Richard Nixon. In choosing that guy with the Robert Redford's Little Brother looks for his running mate, George Bush the Dad stated flat out that he figured this pretty fellow would engage the American woman's vote, as a reason for the choice. That would have made sense, and would have gone right by me when I was 8. Oddly enough, it seems to have gotten by a lot of others who were also no longer 8....
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Monday, January 14, 2008
Joy!
I went to the movies today... saw THE BUCKET LIST. I heartily recommend it to anyone feeling the least bit old or getting on, or past it. With Jack Nicholson and Morgan Freeman, you know it is not going to be syruppy or maudlin... and it does get you thinking. Freeman's character asks Nicholson's the two questions that were mythically asked of the dead trying to get into Egyptian heaven: Did you have joy in your life? Did you create joy in someone else's life? What is Joy? To be able to answer...
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Tuesday, January 8, 2008
The Passing of a God: Being Born Again
Xeno-x left a great comment in the previous post referring to the 'mythical god' of the past several thousand years, and how that concept of God is now going through changes based on humankind's advancement in knowledge. Thinking further down this road, I suggest that we make a distinction between the traditional Mythic God and the new concept: the Quantum God. This is not about changing God. It is about changing our concept, our understanding of the nature of that force in the Universe that we...
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