I am feeling grumpy about a few things. Maybe you share my discontent. Each item represents entire categories of rants too deep and broad to list here. Relentless myths. Honey bees are not … [Read more...]
A Rant
Rant -- A verb: to speak or shout at length in a wild, impassioned way. To hold forth, fulminate, bellow, vociferate. A noun: a tirade. This is a rant. Come on people, the lakefront sidewalk is … [Read more...]
A Rant and Then Perspective
Text a reflection on Mark 13:1-8 Video version is available following the text Thirty seven or eight years after Jesus was executed the Roman army reduced the Temple to ruins and conducted a … [Read more...]
Take A Millennial To Lunch
This post first appeared in the weekly column, "Denim Spirit," from The Finger Lakes Times (NY), July 26, … [Read more...]
Ode to Karl
He was my therapist for five years, off and on but only because I was chickenshit. I don’t know how old he was, but I’m guessing he had me by at least fifteen years – just enough to keep me almost … [Read more...]
Confused
Dream by Cameron Miller Halfway in halfway out squeezed in the middle by a dream-catcher.Lowered here by sleep into this floppy dimension chairs are wobbly and misshapen, people wear wrong … [Read more...]
Naked Blonde in yard hears nothing
Stroking her soft blond hair, she looks into my soul with pooled brown eyes – shutters of light to bring the world inside but never allowing the inner animal of her soul to be seen by me. We live … [Read more...]
One foot in the past, one in the present, imagining a future
After Martin Luther King Day I find myself humming or whistling “Lift Every Voice” for a week, the same as with any of a dozen carols from Christmas Eve until New Year’s. This year was a particularly … [Read more...]
What do you do when you meet a giant?
One generation grew up believing in the Lone Ranger and that one person could change the world, while a newer generation grew up knowing that a couple of people could blow up the center of American … [Read more...]
A Wednesday Rant: Loving Judas
Archive Rant Adapted from a presentation delivered to a 12-Step Worship in 2012 “We do not become enlightened by imagining figures of light but by making the darkness conscious.” (C … [Read more...]