As I’ve written before, I haven’t been a practicing Christian for many years. I won’t regurgitate my reasons again, but I handed in my Catholic Club membership card way back in my 30s. This doesn’t mean that I jettisoned my Christian values along with all that dogma and patriarchy, however, because I didn’t. While I…
Category: Spirituality
10 Things I Think I Think On April 27, 2024
Spring is upon us, and oh, how the mind flourishes this time of year, with all those treebuds opening, flowers blooming, people out and about with fewer clothes on, and longer, warmer days lighting our way to another endless summer! Moods are brighter, my friends! Smiles abound. A long, shitty winter of my discontent is…
Choose Your Own Adventure
When I was 12 years old, I was in this enrichment program with five of my classmates where we were able to study anything we wanted, anything that came into our minds that interested us. It was totally free-wheeling. One day, at someone’s suggestion, we took a field trip to a computer programming facility, the…
My Creed
Back when I was still a practicing Catholic, I was really into the Apostles. I had many questions about them. Who were these guys? Where did they come from? How were they chosen? Why were they chosen? Why did Jesus decide to give these particular men a rose on ‘A Very Special Episode of The…
A Plague On All Our Houses
ROMEOCourage, man; the hurt cannot be much. MERCUTIONo, ’tis not so deep as a well, nor so wide as achurch-door; but ’tis enough, ’twill serve: ask forme to-morrow, and you shall find me a grave man. Iam peppered, I warrant, for this world. A plague o’ both your houses! ‘Zounds, a dog, a rat, a…
The Meaning of Life (Part 1)
This seems like an overly ambitious subject to be tackling on only the second post of my blogging rebirth, but I got some pretty good sleep last night and it’s a sunny Saturday with nothing pressing on my agenda, so fuck it, I’m feeling overly ambitious. I spend an inordinate amount of time contemplating the…