I spent most of the day editing old poems and writing a new poem. We had to take the dog and two of the three cats to the vet this morning. It wasn’t half the hassle that I thought it would be. We put the two cats in their boxes in Kathy’s [...]
Archive for October, 2007
Thanks, Channel 10 Weather
Posted in Just Stuff on October 19, 2007 | Leave a Comment »
The Book Muse
Posted in Poetry on October 18, 2007 | Leave a Comment »
The poets called again today. I put down the books on religion and history, turned off the computer, and picked up books by Roethke and Berry. Try as I might to ignore them, they still called to me and demanded to be read. Often, I have heard them and covered their call with thoughts of [...]
The Only Way?
Posted in Religion and Life on October 16, 2007 | Leave a Comment »
Marcus Borg in his new book, The God We Never Knew, spends some time discussing the problems that the modern progressive Christian has with what Borg terms “dogmatic religion.” A couple of these questions piqued my interest: the divinity of Christ and the exclusivity of the Christian faith. The presence of exclusivity is [...]
The First Post in a Long Time
Posted in Just Stuff on October 14, 2007 | Leave a Comment »
I really can’t believe that my last post was over a month ago. I have no excuse other than the fact that I have been too tired to write much of anything this last month or so. After painting the bedroom, I became the victim of the “cascading paint effect.” The bedroom [...]