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Mar.11.2013
Photo: Norman Rockwell's "Merry Christmas, Grandma!" at addictinginfo.org (Not my kinda site, but it had a good photo of this painting). Is Christmas ever this old-fashioned and homey?
"So Many Reasons to Celebrate the Season," my most recently-purchased story, about how a best-...
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Dec.01.2012
According to Albertus Magnus, aka ‘Albert the Great’, teacher to Thomas Aquinas. , asserts the following:
By reminiscence, sense, and imagination, the intellect proceeds from potentiality to actuality. When it acquires scientia (knowledge) it is the intellectus adeptus, (acquired intellect...
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Dec.18.2011
The End of Another Season
Welcome back my spiritual friend, I trust things went well for you!
For those of you who have been with me for some time, know there is always a closing of one year, followed up with the beginnings of the New Year setting the stage for the years’ journey as well as a tie...
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Sep.03.2010
Many people associate the end of Summer with the weather and the calendar. While these are two valid associations, they are no longer the dominant ones for me.
About the time I started feeling really responsible – for children, employment, an income stream, obligations, a home, a career, and...
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Sep.02.2010
Summer-time has turned the star-wheel,autumn is upon us.
from Hymn #73, Chant of the Seasons, Singing the Living Tradition, the Unitarian hymnal
As September comes, so goes summer. It's all right with me. I like fall, actually, the smoky smell of leaves and the bright and beautiful colors of maple...
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Mar.17.2010
Oriole
A white cotton sheet luffing like a loose mainsailfloats willingly on soft air, not going anywhere. Just being itself, it is peacefully, quietly there. In a sudden change of mood, though, it fiercely rolls into a tight little ball and hurls itself into a mist, then just as quickly swirls...
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Mar.13.2010
Knowledge is linear because time is linear Part I a)This is pretty much a straightforward statement, nevertheless, it will take time to consider it, understand it and come to know and appreciate it.This is because time causes us to roll it out as though it were a carpet and find the clues, the...
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Dec.23.2009
A friend told me
he sent me a book.
This ran joy
up my spine,
a feeling intense,
I would not
have expected.
Life is filled with
such joys,
like the first snow
of the season.
Howard Thurman
wrote about the place
in each of us
for the singing of angels
that is so breathtakingly
beautiful
it...
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Dec.20.2009
Joy is the true gift of Christmas, not the expensive gifts that call for time and money....Let us pray that this presence of the liberating joy of God shines forth in our lives.
- Pope Benedict XVI
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Dec.16.2009
`Tis the Season!!!
Happy December, everyone! So here we are, at that magical time of year again. The time of year where we are supposed to stop, sit back, relax, reflect and enjoy our families and friends as we celebrate another wonderful year. Yeah, right. Something like that.
Instead,...
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