Sharing the exploration of our lives
In this context one can see that the unified entity that we today call the United Kingdom has a long past and not all of it peaceful or willing. This is not unusual in human affairs, but it takes us down the road in understanding the background for the Scottish plebiscite to be held later this year. Continue Reading →
It is two in the morning and still I am awake. My husband and I watched the movie The Trip this evening. It is a powerful movie. Like the equally excellent Longtime Companion, it is a tale spread over many years. And perhaps this is where I am caught. There is a nexus here in the passage of time and the prison of the closet experience. The Closet in this context refers to an experience of shutting away who you are and hiding from others to protect yourself or your loved ones. It is very damaging. There is so much loss involved. And Continue Reading →
I came here today to uproot and confront my fear of you and your fear of me, for fear brings silence, and silence equals death, but a living truth brings freedom and life. Continue Reading →
I was recently asked to tell the story about how I came to be a Unitarian Universalist. I figure anything that involves this much writing needs to be shared on my blog. I was reared an institutional catholic. This is a term I’ve coined to distinguish from faith catholics, many of whom I find to be heretical in catholic terms. As an institutional catholic, it makes all the difference what the institution of the church wants, says or teaches. Part of my up bringing, as you can imagine, included a fair bit of homophobia in the form of the lie Continue Reading →
Two steps forward, one step back . . .: “More concerning, he writes, is the religious right’s lack of concern for social issues such as poverty and racial justice, on top of ‘the appeals of the movement’s leaders to affluent self-interest over biblical imperatives. How did tax cuts for the rich become a religious imperative? Those blatant hypocrisies of the religious Right are becoming more and more evident, especially to a new generation of evangelical Christians.’ This new generation of evangelicals will be in good company with the gay community, who long ago caught on to the right’s penchant for Continue Reading →
Appreciations: Arthur Miller: Death of a Legend: “For anyone who has ever spent an evening absorbed in ‘Death of a Salesman,’ watching Willy Loman’s ineffably sad decline, there should be little doubt about Arthur Miller’s genius. Still, when the mourning ends for Mr. Miller, who died Thursday, the question of the timelessness of his work will remain. Mr. Miller’s career had its share of misfires, but on the strength of his best plays, he seems as destined for immortality as his most famous character was for obscurity.Mr. Miller’s plays are entrenched in the American canon, and in high school curriculums, Continue Reading →
I have been absent this web log. The demands of work and family have kept me away from the news of the day and when not working, I have avoided the computer. This brings to mind the phenomenon of American culture where a voting populace is remarkably uninformed about issues and events. It will be interesting to watch as our society grows to see how this experiement in representative, elected government can survive with such a lack of importance placed on education. When public education was discussed and presented, it was, at least in part, founded on this notion that Continue Reading →
A beginning.
There are so many beginnings.
For each beginning, there is an ending.
For each ending, there is a beginning.
There are so many endings.
An ending. Continue Reading →