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Sometimes We Do the Right Thing
Any number of quotes come to mind as we move towards All Saints Day, Halloween, and perhaps the most consequential election in a lifetime. All in the midst of the scourge of the greatest pandemic since the so-called Spanish Influenza of 1917-18. While the… Continue Reading “Sometimes We Do the Right Thing”
We Shall Not Be Moved
I remember my geology teacher at Cal. State. Los Angeles, Dr. Ehlig. He taught optical mineralogy, a highly abstruse, conceptual subject. It required the ability to think in three dimensions all at once. And it was held after the lunch hour in a hot,… Continue Reading “We Shall Not Be Moved”
Sixteen Tons of Number Nine Coal
I remember my dad talking about the coal industry of his boyhood home in West Virginia. And while he grew up in a rather privileged home, he did have a sympathetic heart for miners that virtually had no future in the mines. Wages were… Continue Reading “Sixteen Tons of Number Nine Coal”
Tell Me A Story
When families get together, or when we used to get together before COVID-19, it didn’t take long before favorite stories to be shared around the circle. In our family, one of the favorites my brother and I regailed the family with was about our… Continue Reading “Tell Me A Story”
So Much Pain
As if there were not enough to worry about with coronavirus, elections, the economy in the tank – now this. NASA warns us that an asteroid is approaching Earth the day before Election Day, November 2nd. All the more reason to vote early. Remember… Continue Reading “So Much Pain”
Stop, Look, Listen
When I was a young boy our family would take trips from Compton into Los Angeles. Driving up Alameda Blvd., as we neared the downtown area the railroad tracks for all the industrial spurs would enter the street and run right up the center… Continue Reading “Stop, Look, Listen”
Do Not Conform – Be transformed
On Sunday morning I woke up with a racing heart and a sense of dread. I had just come back to consciousness from a terrible dream – a nightmare, really. In this dream I was seated in my vestments ready to take the pulpit… Continue Reading “Do Not Conform – Be transformed”
The Cool Kids’ Table
We moved to a new neighborhood when I was in my second year of high school. Now, I must confess that pretty much all through junior high and into my first year of high school, school was a social disaster. And an academic disaster. … Continue Reading “The Cool Kids’ Table”
Demon Seed and Alien DNA
As July rolls into August, high seas and ferocious winds threaten to swamp the Ship of State. Huge surges of new waves of coronavirus inundate hospital emergency rooms. This week one of our own at St. Francis has been hospitalized with COVID-19 (she is… Continue Reading “Demon Seed and Alien DNA”
“With Sighs Too Deep for Words – Seeds of Hope”
I must be doing something wrong. But I am perplexed as to what it could be. This spring, as last spring, I went to my garden and scattered some seeds. Sweet Alyssum, Nasturtium, California Poppy. And what came up? Nothing. Just like last year. … Continue Reading ““With Sighs Too Deep for Words – Seeds of Hope””
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