“Freedom is measured by the distance between church and state”
Looking outside at the gloomy grey foggy day (not to worry, SUN is coming soon), I clicked over to APOD and found this amazing beauty:
(click it to see the full picture). Isn’t that just amazingly, almost breathtakingly beautiful?
I’ve heard it said (maybe you have, too) that the measure of a life isn’t in how many [...]
Okay, so Anna Nicole Smith died suddenly. Boo-hoo. Her mother lives outside of Houston in a mobile home, presents herself well (at least on the television interview) and her property doesn’t look like trailer-trash. Pity the mother who lost a daughter and grandson, for sure. I wonder what is was like [...]
Since regular network programming was reruns, and I was busy knitting on the Organic Shawl, I checked the listings and decided on a goofy show in the E! network: “50 Cutest Child Stars, All Grown Up”, just to have noise going on. Oh crap! “I” was already grown up, married and divorced before [...]
Had a pretty good night sleep but I’m kinda bummed this morning.
The reality of the world is (as Brigitte commented the other day) ideas are just “in the air” and many people simultaneously tap into them. The reality is that I am a creative being and I try to be “open at the top” [...]
This quote was printed on the cover of “Treatise of the Art of Knitting, with a History of the Knitting Loom: comprising an interesting account of its origin, and of its recent Wonderful Improvements” by J. B. Aiken. I had printed it out long ago and had been reading it in the bathroom, and I [...]
Okay, so I admit it: I have no idea *exactly* what happens when someone dies.
I have a very strong and committed faith that as long as we are here, we are integral and essential participants in the process of Nature. We (humans) weren’t dropped here as an afterthought, but neither were we set above or [...]
