Letter about Abortion

Honor the woman and the problem of abortion will solve itself.

Insert a Trite Metaphor About a Corral

In the aftermath of Sunday's march, abortion was a major theme for many bloggers.

Iambic Pentameter

I dare say that I like it far more when I write it to match the natural candences of language than when I force it to the academicized meter.

A Swarm

Nature's come to our condominium. An Africanized honey bee queen found a crack beneath our Spanish tile eaves and set up court.

A Terrible Sonnet

From death none shall arise.

Holy Jim Canyon 7

Dream
I dreamed that I was rising from bed and walking down the hall. I practiced each step before I took...

The Secret Library

This is a view of part of the shelf over my computer desk.

Bent out of Shape

Critic that I am of Israel, I am no friend of White Supremacists.

Holy Jim Canyon 6

If Lucifer had a Hammer

Since when is Kevin one to complain about religious tolerance when he doesn't even acknowledge that leftist Catholics and others exist?

Abortion is Vile

You will not find me on the streets outside clinics, taunting and shaming women who come there because they have no other options. Nor will you find me on the inside of the clinic.

Suspend the Ump

I can see no reason for calling for the removal of the hijab from this woman's head, not for safety, not to make it easy to discern which team the woman played for.

Overheard, Overhead, Over the Hill

It's a sure sign of geriactrification when you realize that you were alive when the songs being played on drug store music systems came out.

Low Expectations from the College Board

Why did the College Board choose A Tale of Two Cities over Great Expectations?

Bragging Rights?

...a list of the 101 books certified as "great" by the College Board

Mother America

It became an issue in the poetry workshop with Sam Hamill that I attended whether America was a Fatherland or a Motherland.

More on Religious Tolerance

When statements about tolerance are couched in "We won't be able to win this one without them" you send the message that what matters most is the winning of the election, not the principles.

War of the Sugar Bush

We thought it was injured.

Cussed Snake at Holy Jim

"Did you get a picture of it?" Lynn asked.

Random Site News

I might as well point to a few things that have been done to the page in the last few weeks.

Religious Tolerance

For all their talk about tolerance, what are Patrick and Kevin doing to support the Christian Left?

Reverend Lou Sheldon

Reverend Lou Sheldon claims never to have said those words. Which is funny because he's said an awful lot of words like them!

Hebrew Googling

It's an odd juxtaposition.

The Closet

Why the closet? I asked in my journal yesterday. So we'd concentrate on the work of self-reconstruction.

Insert Trite Metaphor about a Corral

The Culture War is in full swing and the bloggers I read are choosing to be on the side of the real people against the faux working people.

Earth Day

Happy Earth Day!

Dream
Every night in a cathedral built at the apex of a steep natural ziggurat, a priest who lives in the...

Change Revisited

None of us can hold back the tide of stupidity, but perhaps we could be the grunion coming to shore that make getting their feet wet worthwhile?

Birthday Meme

Poor Brian thought he had an in on a super cool meme for us all, but he sat on it too long and Metafilter beat him to it.

One Year Ago

Fundamentalist political correctness has not disappeared.

Change

I think I do best when I stop worrying about what people will think and strive to know myself.

Are You a Slave?

A good parable beats a R*ndenoid slogan any time.

Palomar Observatory 3

Feeding the Birds

I'm part of the property now and it's my task to feed.

Two Sneaky Deals....

Your government is trying to push two disasters past you while you worry about the safety of the troops in Iraq and consider putting the people who are raising your taxes (if you are working class) back into office.

Dream
I am back in college and heading for the dining hall at Claremont Men's College (as it was known at...

100th Comment at Paths of Light
Congratulations to beerzie boy for being the 100th commentator at Paths of Light!...

My Ecological Footprint

Just about the only thing I could cut down on is food.

Palomar Observatory 2

Think of a Barn or a Grain Silo

Photographers are bowing down before the wildflowers and the grass, zooming their lenses in close to get fabulous shots.

Palomar Observatory 1

Volcan Mountain Preserve 3

A Theology of Drones

Is the neighborhood losing that capricious faith that it had after 9-11?

Dream

During the last hour or two of my sleep, I wandered through endless waiting rooms.

The Inconvenience Posed by Sufis

This Catholic woman insisted that Sufism was part of a long established Islamic plot to create fellow travelers.

The Promised Palomar Pictures

They are an oops....

Fifth Sentence

Grab the nearest book.

Net Pillage

Be careful when you go searching for "Sondheim lyrics".

Volcan Mountain Preserve 2

Put up a Parking Lot

As soon as we got out of the truck, a fellow riding a taxi bike asked if we needed a ride to the entrance. I declined, thinking it odd that on this night we'd been transported into a Saigon without the mortar rounds and the shrapnel.

Lunatic Nation

Of course, Kansas is a metaphor for the entire nation, a country where people jump for the opportunity to seize the red winding sheet and eagerly spread the grain upon which the Four Horses of the Apocalypse will dine.

One Month

Good reading slows me down.

Insert Trite Metaphor about a Corral Here

I don't enable comments for this because I want you to engage the bloggers who I cite. Visit their sites.

Volcan Mountain Preserve 1

I Knew I Should Have Trademarked My Name
Oh dear. A younger me coming up in Vancouver, B.C....

Jero-Augustianism

The heresy dominates our lives even today!

San Diego Wild Animal Park 13

Photo Proof

When a peace association or an individual is maliciously accused of wrongdoing, you can count on me for stand up for it.

Comedy of Terrors

hostingmatters.com might well be hanging there like a trout waiting for the filletting knife.

An Asthma Attack

The deadly sin of sloth will kill me yet.

San Diego Wild Animal Park 12

Pushing Back the Clock

Because of this discovery, scientists now date the domestication of human beings to 9500 BC.

San Diego Wild Animal Park 11

Giant Butterfly

A rare California Giant Swallowtail caught at the San Diego Wild Animal Park last Friday.

Rhinoceros at Retreat

It wasn't the people who drove me away from the Meeting but that person who sits inside me, who must declaim and perform.

Purple Plum

Our tree is the last to revive and the first to litter the sidewalk

Every Blog Needs an Iris Photo
Irises are wonderful and I have not seen any on this blog for awhile. So may this brighten everyone's day...

Retreat!

I'm off for a Good Friday date on a hilltop with a bunch of Quakers.

At Home with the Schleimanns

I don't know what your problem is Electra. You're so selfish. Look at your sister Iphigenia. She'd give her life for her mother and father!

Souvenir Cup

It's gone,

my portable waterhole.

Insert Trite Metaphor about a Corral

It was a strange week on the web....

Microwave Servicing

The repairman arrived eleven minutes after The Call.

A Mixed Metaphor

I'm for the early creation, the revision, the last ruin of the final monument.

Lawnmower Men

Amputated stalks of dead grass litter the streets of the complex.

In Memoriam, Rwanda
pacem amamus...

Rwanda Blackout

This blog shall observe a blackout tomorrow, April 7, 2004, to mark the tenth anniversary of the Rwanda genocide

No Fly List

Cry the Beloved Country!

Not particularly honored

I keep thinking of that Robert Browning poem that I mentioned a couple of weeks ago

No Stigmata, No Pain

Making me feel guilty because I don't bleed as much as Jesus is a pretty cruel thing for a mind and a culture to do to a person.

Crows

Crows have taken over a tall pine tree a short block away.

Narrow Exit

The Story is what we take when we don't have the courage to ask our medical insurance to allow us to see a psychiatrist or get assertiveness training.

Intimacy

A common trend among the blogs I like is that the people who write them don't just spew off about politics.

The Milk of Paradise

Even a "fuck you" would help.

Cures and Paintpots

I'm looking at my disease in a new way.

Eleven Days

Workers lost eleven days of wages and landlords charged a full month's rent.

Why This Skeptic Dislikes Snopes.com

Must the result of debunking always be the suggestion how stupid people are rather than how creative?

Bullies

Every one of my junior high school enemies was walking down Garden Drive towards me.

Dream

I am to guard "the baby"....

Lining up to be Cool Like Jesus

The trouble is that we don't know how to read myth.

Fool's Equality

Few people want to be the meanie. What they want is a fool's equality where nice, ethical people can be held to be just as nasty as they are

Jovinian and Pelagius

How different the history of Christianity might have turned out if we spoke of St. Jovinian and St. Pelagius instead of St. Jerome and St. Augustine.

Fallow, Fallow, Fallow All....

Today's word (in imitation of Frances Strand) is fallow connoting fog over a stubbled field.

Insert Trite Metaphor about a Corral Here

Here is what I discovered/stole in the course of my weekly rumblings through my blog links.

Goldilocks Robbed the Three Bears

Baby Bear smashes what is left of his chair over Goldilock's head.

Bad Poetry

I could worm out of writing a set of rhymes by declaring that as boutmaster it would not be seemly to take part in the festivities....