Say no to the Death Squads
Saturday, January 29th, 2005 Posted in Peace and Justice | Comments OffNewsweek has uncovered the Pentagon's plans for "The Salvador Option »"--creating counter-insurgency groups in Iraq modeled after the notorious Salvadoran Death Squads funded by the Reagan administration. Sojourner's » has an online form » that will use the address information ...
Presence and Absence
Thursday, January 27th, 2005 Posted in My Life, Poetry, Spirituality | Comments OffI'm sure that most of my blog's regular readers know what I mean by feeling "the Presence of God." Yet I wonder how many people in the general population know it. Is it something that most sense a few times ...
UCC SpongeBob Gallery
Wednesday, January 26th, 2005 Posted in Humor | Comments OffFresh from the UCC newsroom: the entire photo-diary page SpongeBob goes to church ». I love the message, "Jesus didn't turn people away. Neither do we," but I also can't wait to see what The Door » magazine will ...
UCC Welcomes SpongeBob
Tuesday, January 25th, 2005 Posted in Humor, Peace and Justice | Comments OffThe United Church of Christ has extended an official welcome to SpongeBob Squarepants. See the UCC home page » for a great picture. Thanks to Bob Griffith for posting this on his blog, Hypersync ». James Dobson claims ...
Who’s Your Daddy?
Tuesday, January 25th, 2005 Posted in Peace and Justice | Comments OffSince Inauguration Day, I've had this thought: >The United States has a President. I don't--I have a king.
My Science Experiment, Part Deux
Friday, January 21st, 2005 Posted in My Life | No Comments »Thanks for the encouragement, everyone, especially to Katherine, who emailed me her secret whey substitute: plain yogurt. Yep, that's it. I just had the best ginger ale of my life, and I made it myself. Ingredients: freshly peeled and ...
Icy Roads
Thursday, January 20th, 2005 Posted in My Life | No Comments »Yesterday, we had a light snow in Norfolk that was just enough to coat every street in ice right before we got off work. Our trips home took at least two times as long for me and all of ...
Writing as Meditation
Sunday, January 16th, 2005 Posted in Poetry, Spirituality | No Comments »In her famous book Writing Down the Bones, Natalie Goldberg describes how her roshi instructed her to begin using her writing as a form of meditation. Recently, my teacher, Kitabu Roshi », gave me a similar assignment, especially through ...
WIE on What the Bleep?
Friday, January 14th, 2005 Posted in Movies / TV / Stage, Spirituality | No Comments »What Is Enlightenment? » magazine has an excellent review » of What the #$*! Do We Know?, the movie which I had considered a mixed bag of entertaining, popularized science on the one hand, and grossly deficient pseudo-mysticism on ...
My Science Experiment
Wednesday, January 12th, 2005 Posted in Humor, My Life | No Comments »I've been reading a book called *Eat Fat, Lose Fat,* by Sally Fallon and Mary Enig. It emphasizes natural, organic foods, and the historic importance of *lacto-fermentation* as a means of preserving foods and making them digestible. Fallon also ...