Posted in Comfort, Creation, Death, Wonder on Jun 17th, 2010
First hawk I was in the kitchen when I heard a wild beating and clattering. All I could see from the window was a confusion of feathers and very large wings under the patio bench. Since the feathers appeared to belong to a hawk, I put on my raincoat and gloves (even though the temperature [...]
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Posted in Beauty, Creation on May 24th, 2009
Cybernun’s new video features Brahms’ “How Lovely Is Your Dwelling Place” (Wie lieblich sind deine Wohnungen), from his German Requiem. How lovely is your dwelling place, O Lord of hosts! My soul longs, indeed it faints for the courts of the Lord; my heart and my flesh sing for joy to the living God. … Happy [...]
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Posted in Creation, Justice on Oct 21st, 2008
According to the Environmental Protection Agency, a human life is worth $900,000 less than it used to be. An MSNBC article from July 10 puts it this way: Though it may seem like a harmless bureaucratic recalculation, the devaluation has real consequences. When drawing up regulations, government agencies put a value on human life and [...]
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Posted in Creation on Apr 16th, 2005
During a tedious afternoon in a doctor’s waiting room, I flipped through an old National Geographic — from March of 1988 to be exact. One article contained a remarkable photo of a manta ray surrounded by swimmers. The caption has been haunting me ever since: Gliding like a stealth bomber, a manta ray is anything [...]
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Posted in Creation, Mystery on Apr 13th, 2005
Our roof seems to be home to an entire ecosystem. Besides the fact that we have enough grass up there to keep a goat, we get inklings of varied life-forms and mysterious goings-on that we can’t see — or see only when they spill over into our lower world. An early visitor was the five-foot-long [...]
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