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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... Sign in to see full entry.

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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... Sign in to see full entry.

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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. Sign in to see full entry.

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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? Sign in to see full entry.

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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... Sign in to see full entry.

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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.... Sign in to see full entry.

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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... Sign in to see full entry.

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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... Sign in to see full entry.

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Sunday, January 6, 2008

What does God have to be, to be God? 1.2

This was the title of one of the first posts in this blog, a couple of years ago. This is not that post, but an update and continuation of those thoughts. I was taught, directly and indirectly, that God is the Supreme Being, the greatest force in the Universe, the master and sulitmate Source of all that is, the First Cause of every effect, the absolute Absolute. It is all there in the simple assertion: Nothing is greater than God. Well, here is Everything. Did it just happen? Did it grow out of... Sign in to see full entry.

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"...On the Twelfth Day of Christmas..."

Okay, counting from Christmas Day, today is the 13th Day of Christmas, and I missed by one... what an epiphany! Have I had it wrong all these years? Or does the count begin the day after Christmas? Regardless, I have been thinking lately that it would be a fine thing to shift the gifting part of the Christmas season to this traditional day for it. Could we do this? I don't see why not... And save Dec 25 to celebrate quietly, perhaps even with some reverence for the birth of one who, whatever... Sign in to see full entry.

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I've been asking the Universe to explain itself to me since I was about 11 years old. I asked specifically how to reconcile God with Science. Now and then, I seem to tune in on an answer. All that I write here represents not Truth, but what I believe to be true.I have my reasons, and I like to believe, my reason. ///Everything of my own words and/or pictures that I post on Blogit is copyright by CLRedding 1972-present, all rights reserved.///

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