Good Good-Friday advice and un-jellybean Easter
Gloria Originally uploaded by The Department. I get Google traffic looking for “E.B. White essay“; AKMA gets it for Good Friday sermon advice. He just posted some very good Good Friday sermon advice,...
View ArticleMark Twain: “Man would need reptiles.”
rex Originally uploaded by simbi0tic star bubbles In 1903, Mark Twain was already poking fun at his era’s version of Intelligent Design. For example… According to Kelvin’s figures it took 99,968,000...
View ArticleNH October is red, red, red
Happy, happy moment when I was 11 Originally uploaded by betsythedevine Bright red is the favorite color of most small children. What a surprise it was, when someone told me this! Oh, you mean I was...
View ArticleLit up like no ordinary Christmas tree
The Infamous House of Lights Originally uploaded by stomptokyo Picture this picture half an acre wide. One of the most amazing Christmas displays in the USA — I think that’s what NBC said, or maybe it...
View ArticleReflection, translation, science and belief
Green on green Originally uploaded by betsythedevine Even a skilled translation is like the reflection in water of what the original thinker was trying to say. But such reflections may also have...
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After the hailstorm Originally uploaded by betsythedevine Charles Dickens, A Tale of Two Cities: A wonderful fact to reflect upon, that every human creature is constituted to be that profound secret...
View ArticleWonderful world
What a Wonderful World, sung by Eva Cassidy When I listen to Eva Cassidy, already diagnosed with the metastatic cancer that would be killing her, singing at her final concert “What a Wonderful World,”...
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