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Oct.21.2009
God is one rocking muse. Some writer or the other uses religion as allegory, metaphor, reinterpretation. Some religious group or the other is offended.
Jose Saramago who won the 1998 Nobel Prize for Literature has written a book Cain that has been described as an ironic retelling of the Biblical...
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Oct.04.2009
Here's today's poem:
Meditation 232
There’s an awful lotof travelin the early church
so it’s obviousthat sainthoodwould never have suited me
at all.
Church today was okay - quite a good sermon about relationships really - but we had one of those horrid dirge-like hymns I can't stand for the third...
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Sep.20.2009
Back to the meditations this morning, so here's today's:
Meditation 223
Twelve leaders,seven accountantsbut only two altars
for prayerjust about sums upthe church,
both thenand now.
Is it just me or is everything topsy-turvy in terms of standards? Ah well. Anyway, this morning I have finally...
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Sep.20.2009
Leicester Museum (where I spent many student hours) - formerly the Proprietory School built by architect Joseph Hansom of Hansom Cab fame in 1837, the year of Queen Victoria's Coronation.
Excerpt from A HOUSE NOT MADE WITH HANDS.
This is the story of one community's struggle to bring New Jerusalem...
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Sep.06.2009
Here's today's meditation poem:
Meditation 218
After a too-long allocationof city to tribe,
people to place,meeting every Israelite need
but his own,Joshua finally takes
a city for himselfin the Ephraim hills:
calm stones, bleak grasses,olive trees and silence.
I do always feel quite sorry for...
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Aug.23.2009
Here's today's meditation:
Meditation 205
In the middleof battle, victory
and a bargained marriageshe knows
what is neededand for this one time
she askswhat she wants
and gets it:the upper
and lower water.Caleb, Othniel, Achsah.
Keeping on a religious theme, Lord H and I graced the church with our...
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Aug.10.2009
FROM THE AUTHOR OF
'The Family in the Car, a Revelation'
HATS AND PRAYER CLOTHS
The Lord Is Not Your Husband
Lord yes, Lover no
Coming 2009!
Placed in human beings are the needs and...
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Aug.03.2009
aw the moon
it do just hang there it do just sit up there in the sky in the southwest georgia darkness full and bright a portal into other worlds look deep look long spin spin within its circle of light draped round the meadow garments flowing arms outstretched and twisting head back mouth open...
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Aug.02.2009
I have to say that last night's Rusalka was absolutely superb. I loved every minute of it. Wonderful singing, wonderful scenery and utterly astonishing costumes. A tour-de-force indeed. You can always tell how successful the Glyndebourne operas are by how lively the queue for the ladies' loos is in...
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Jul.30.2009
Just had time to fit in a poem before rushing into town this morning, so here it is:
Meditation 186
He speaks in riddles,puzzles, running phrasesof words whose notes
remind you of beautybut whose sense cannotreach you, bewildered
seeker of truth. Whenevery explanationimprisons you in the wrong,...
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