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SERMON: Intimate Creatures By Nature |
C'mon people! Our natural urge is to merge. No, not with our blackberries, or our Mac screens, but rather with a partner; a witness to our lives, someone who enhances our vision and looks beyond our rough edges.
There is no denying how truly healing this kind of love can be. When we encounter the relationships and exchanges of energy that promote the uncovering of life's grime and the awakening of our true, authentic selves....we feel FREE. Freedom from judgement, fear and the illusion of loneliness allows us to tap into the healing Love of compassion.
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EDITORIAL: Thieves Among Us
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The Torah, the Bible and the Koran all have many injunctions against stealing but that doesn't seem to stop people from doing it and doing it and doing it.
It is probably the most flouted commandment of the more than two hundred commandments in the Torah, which is the basis for The Old Testament.
If you think about killing, or murder, most people never commit this sin. Adultery gets more takers but common sense says fewer people commit adultery than steal. Stealing starts with many in early childhood and can and does continue through to the oldest age onto and unto death.
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OPINION: Blurred Reality
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I recall a perfect example of the stark contrast between 'reality' and a jaded perception of what 'reality' is to television viewers. One warm night last summer, I was returning home from a jog when I saw my Mom in front of our house watering the flowers. She was talking to one of our neighbors, who, I noticed had an enormous dog on a leash. A dog showing its wolf ancestry.
"Wow!," I thought to myself. "That's one scary looking dog." I asked her when she got the dog.
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GOOD NEWS: TheCOOLpix Puzzler: Mali Bathers
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Mali is a landlocked nation in Western Africa. It is the seventh largest country of Africa.
The name of the country comes from the Bambara word for hippopotamus (with the animal appearing on the 5 franc coin); the name of its capital city, Bamako comes from the Bambara word meaning "place of crocodiles".
It is a poor country with scarce indoor bathing facilities. Communal bathing along the banks of a river is a common sight to any boat rider.
The people of Mali are friendly, happy and accommodating.
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FICTION: Chad, Part Two
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Jeremy came to life and thought "What's going on. One second I'm outside pounding and yelling and the next I'm in the stall and no pants, no shoes!" This was a nightmare. That little baby faced wiener, what had he done? He suddenly noticed that the door wasn't even locked. He threw the bolt and sat on the toilet. He didn't want anyone to know he was in here. He pulled his legs up tight and put his feet on the seat. His watch told him it was 12:30 PM.
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ADVICE: Dear Angel
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My boyfriend, the man I thought I was going to marry and spend the rest of my life with cheats on me. I had pushed for and he had agreed that we had a compact that neither of us would have sex until after we are married. Now, I discover he has been having sex on a regular basis with several different women.
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"No matter how ephemeral it is, a novel is something, while despair is nothing."
Mario Vargas Llosa |
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"The man who makes no mistakes does not usually make anything."
Edward John Phelps |
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"Truce is better than friction."
Charles Herguth |
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"The first thing to do in life is to do with purpose what one purposes to do."
Pablo Casals |
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"Histories are more full of examples of the fidelity of dogs than of friends."
Alexander Pope |
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"Power will intoxicate the best hearts, as wine the strongest heads. No man is wise enough, nor good enough to be trusted with unlimited power."
Charles Caleb Colton |
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"Jealousy is not a barometer by which the depth of love can be read. It merely records the degree of the lover's insecurity."
Margaret Mead |
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"A candle is not dimmed by lighting another candle. "
Anonymous |
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"The thorns which I have reaped are of the tree I planted."
George Noel Gordon |
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"Every contrivance of man, every tool, every instrument, every utensil, every article designed for use, of each and every kind, evolved from a very simple beginnings."
Robert Collier |
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