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  • Speaking in Tongues

    humming refrigerator pleasure – neutral – pain ? neutral tapping keyboard pleasure – neutral – pain ? neutral cursor flashing on screen pleasure – neutral – pain ? neutral breathe breathe breathe where mind wanders at night along the pathways… Continue reading

    Speaking in Tongues

  • detachment – non-clinging – letting-go

    philosophizing as a way of life: the willingness to embrace uncertainty, and the will to ask questions. loving – believing – living Continue reading

  • Who ‘Deserves’ Anything?

    A homily from Fr. Richard Rohr, OFM, on the Gospel of St. Matthew 20:1-16. The suffering that arises from the sense of entitlement. Yet verily, verily… the last shall be first and the first shall be last. https://cac.org/images/MP3s/RRHomily-2014_09_21-Deserves-128k.mp3   Continue reading

  • On top of the world

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    On top of the world

  • More on the Night Vigil

    Continuing to collect every bit of popular writing that points out the importance of the night vigil…even if that is not what they call it. 🙂 …humans did not evolve to sleep through the night in one solid chunk. Until… Continue reading

  • the burden of “white ignorance”

      “…modernity is cognitively marked by a broad pattern in which whites generally endorse racist views (one type of ignorance) in the period of formal global white domination, and then (roughly from the post-World War II, decolonial period onward) shift… Continue reading

  • A British Tory Is An American Democrat

    Here’s an indication of just how far to the right the American political discourse is, compared with Britain – the developed country most in tune with American neo-liberalism: That’s why David Came… Source: dish.andrewsullivan.com And folks wonder why the right… Continue reading

  • I’m Gen Y, and I’m Not a Special Snowflake. I’m Broke. | Mother Jones

    If I want something beyond debt and low wages, am I simply being entitled and delusional? Source: m.motherjones.com Continue reading

  • Psyche Atman Anima Soul

    “The soul is the human being considered as having a value in itself.” Simone Weil, Gravity and Grace (1972). “All day I think about it, then at night I say it. Where did I come from, and what am I supposed… Continue reading

    Psyche Atman Anima Soul

  • Mull of Kintyre

    One of my favorite songs from when I was in High School. I actually sang it to my poetry class once. Sometimes I was foolishly brave for a fairly insecure kid. 😉 Continue reading

    Mull of Kintyre