With the announcement of Bin Laden's killing and the subsequent and inevitable celebrations around the US it's made me pause and think about about the degree to which we live under a vengeance paradigm. It's ubiquitous and all across movies, books, pretty much all of our pop-culture--the protagonist who will stop at nothing to extract vengeance on ( Read more... )

As time goes on, it's sinking in how much i take language for granted talking with other Christians outside of Quakerism. Like anything there are certain terms, phrases that get taken for granted as being universal between Christianity as practiced by mainline protestant Christians and Quakers. It's like there are two languages of sometimes false ( Read more... )

In the electric half-light of the gingerbread garden:

the mercury arc vapor light on the petals unreal.
It's a hubcap pastiche on the hobo patio.It's all waiting, waiting under the bridge.

"Now, you, have you followed my path, over these border-lands?
Have you not caught my song in flight, the barely recognizable tempo, a melody that tugs at a vinyl- ( Read more... )

With Easter recently passed it's caused me to pause and think about how the Quaker perspective on Christ and Christianity differs from the mainstream of Christianity. For one thing being a Quaker and having been raised a Quaker i tend to take for granted just how important holidays such as Easter are to mainline Christians. Rather, i tend to think ( Read more... )

Before we may begin to truly understand the truth of our existence, we must begin to truly understand the truth our own selves.

If i am starving and racked with hunger, how can i hope to savor the subtleties of such a delicious meal?

Spring's promise dawns dewy ( Read more... )

Oh, hey.

This old thing!

...well sort of.

Yes, i'm the one with the head lamp.

MPR Story

From the BBC, CCTV footage of the attack on the Mumbai rail station and shootout with Indian police ( Read more... )

Happy Thanksgiving!

Eat lots of food!