Cenacle Journal
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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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