What exactly do you want us to remember with a pretend yellow ribbon. Fear. Remember to be angry. Remember just a very bad day for a lot of people. I don’t think we could forget that anyway. Remember in some way to honor. But do they know we’re honoring. Remembering can’t put bodies back together.… Read More »
I got the strangest letter in the mail today from some Jehovah’s Witness. It was signed “A Caring Neighbor.” Well, it came yesterday, but we didn’t check the mail until today. My spell check died. I thought I was becoming a spelling queen. Then I realized that tyoitokhkse was suddenly a word. Weird!!! Some dll… Read More »
I must confess that I do not draw a sharp line or any distinction between economics and ethics. Economics that hurt the moral well-being of an individual or a nation are immoral and, therefore, sinful. Thus, the economics that permit one country to prey upon another are immoral. –Mahatma Gandhi
by Erik Lundgren There was a little boy. His name was Tim. In his room there was a wooden desk. At night, he sat at his desk and drew crayon pictures of Dr. Destiny, his favorite movie hero. He stayed up late. His parents didn’t know he stayed up. He stayed up even though he… Read More »
I made some really nice spaghetti sauce, nothing terribly authentic, more like my mom used to make when I was a kid, but without the bell pepper or sugar, and with three handfuls of TVP instead of the meat. It’s just delightful, very comforting, and easy. We ate it with whole wheat organic spaghetti from… Read More »
Swami stood on the brown tiles, socializing with his homies, and he stood near enough that we could overhear everything. Sometimes it was in English, sometimes it was in Bengali, and I think that was his gift to us, that we could overhear everthing, because we love Swami, or I do, and I could just… Read More »
I always thought Judas was just doing what he had to do! If Jesus needed to die for our sins, and he needed to get turned in, then Judas is the hero of that story…. With a smootch and everything. Lost Gospel Revealed
Last night I laid out issue 36 and got overly-focused as I tend too, have to get up and pace a bit. I like that feeling, though it’s selfish to keep us up past our bed time. So it’s all done except a few of the little decorative things, but tonight’s a puja, so I… Read More »
I was waiting for Erik to finish reading the anchors so he would take a walk with me, and I wanted him to hurry up because it was getting dusky out. I had the front door open a little, hoping this would encourage him? I hear a little sound of a bell. A little jinggly… Read More »