Today is the day. Thank you to Unsolicited Press for featuring this interview on their website. Since I am not preaching today, I invite you to follow this link for a more personal snapshot of me as a … [Read more...]
Preserving Social Stratification
There is nothing like an old cemetery for perspective. It is the same in nearly any cemetery. In Buffalo’s vaunted Forest Lawn, a president, a prince and princess, R&B icon Rick James, robber … [Read more...]
Dark Matter
We are told by people who know, if anyone actually knows, that ninety-five percent of the cosmos is made up of Dark Matterand Dark Energy.No really, these are not Marvel Comic characters but the … [Read more...]
Identity
In 532 CE, as historian Catherine Nixey describes in her new book, “The Darkening Age,” a sad gaggle of seven philosophers closed the door and turned out the lights of the Academy in Athens, Greece. … [Read more...]
The Mustard Seed Principle
The prophet Jesus said the realm of God can be likened to a mustard seed, which is very small and yet, when it grows it puts forth large branches for birds to make nests and animals to find shade … [Read more...]
Our Lives as an Annual Instead of a Perennial
Summer heals the wounds of winter the way time and skin cream evaporate a routine scar. I have been thinking about both summer and scars lately. Scars, because I have two minor surgical wounds … [Read more...]
Thoughtwalls
Sitting in the dentist’s chair getting a root canal, my mind wandered into thoughtwalls. That is what I call it when push and shove as we might, our thoughts cannot move any deeper into an idea – when … [Read more...]
From When We Came
Where we are from is not as simple as where we were born or grew up. When asked, I say I am from Indiana even though I have lived in Ohio, Massachusetts, Vermont, and New York since leaving Indiana … [Read more...]
The Difference Between Truth & Fact
I have been thinking a lot about truth lately. When we hear from talking heads and politicians about fake news or such-and-such politician lying, it often has to do with facts more than truth. We … [Read more...]
Life
Life crawls upward and weeps into the light through one small pore even while bursting through the hard wood of the bark in another place. Late last summer we cut down three pine trees in the yard … [Read more...]
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