I am not Catholic. I am beginning to wonder about Pope Francis. Well, not really beginning to wonder, I've wondered for a while. But this new revelation takes the cake in my humble opinion. The pope has given Catholic priests permission to absolve women of the sin of Abortion. This seriously makes me fear for …
Category: Random Musings About Life
Black-on-White Crime
Is it my imagination, or are we seeing more of this lately? This from KOMO News in Seattle: A group of thugs (from the story, at least one of whom was black), attacking tourists downtown. http://www.komonews.com/news/local/Group-attacks-burns-robs-3-tourists-in-downtown-Seattle-322989921.html This from Fox News: The Virginia man who murdered two TV news people, on camera. http://www.foxnews.com/us/2015/08/27/killer-manifesto-tv-gunman-sent-bizarre-message-to-abc-after-murders/?intcmp=hpbt1 Just today.
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Medieval Music…Long Form Writing
In the summer of 1991, I went to Cambridge, England for a UCLA Summer Program. We lived for three weeks in Trinity Hall College (founded in the 14th Century to train canon lawyers), Trinity Hall, Cambridgeand were able to take one of four different courses, taught by dons of the various colleges. I took a …
New Theme…….Long-form Writing Coming Soon
I decided to try out the new Independent Publisher theme. How do you like it? I thought it would better display my "in the works" long-form writing. It's a piece of writing I did a long time ago, but it was well-received, and I'm having fun adding features that I couldn't include in the original, …
NOT This Week’s Photo Challenge…Clouds
For some reason, I've been paying attention to clouds lately, and noticing the many different form that water vapor in our atmosphere can take. From fluffy white, to menacing dark gray, to wispy mares' tails, clouds are just beautiful to gaze upon. I've taken some new photos, and brought together some from my photo library. …
Weekly Photo Challenge…Symbol
This is the most powerful Symbol of my People, The Jews. This is the Western (or Wailing) Wall, in Jerusalem, the last remnant of the Second Temple, destroyed by the Romans in the year 70CE. When I was there, in 2007, this took me, and shook me to my core. A constant reminder of the …
Weekly Photo Challenge – Door
I am an Art Deco enthusiast. This is a door on a bank in Philadelphia. I think it's an excellent example. https://dailypost.wordpress.com/dp_photo_challenge/door/
Make no Mistake-it’s Never Too Late
Looking back on my life, I’ve made many choices that I regret now. But there is one choice that I made in 1984 that I would do all over again in a heartbeat; re-starting playing the violin. When I was a kid in the Seattle Public Schools in the 1950s, it was understood that when …
I’m having trouble corralling my thoughts on this week’s Supreme Court rulings
My brain seems to be a tangle of thoughts, concerns, and emotions, given the momentous rulings handed down by the nine Ivy League lawyers in black robes in Washington, D.C. Over the experience of humanity, for the last 5,000 years of recorded human history, those nine people have in one stroke, deemed that two people …
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