some context for our troubled world…

As we collectively seek to find hope in a world seemingly falling apart, with band-aid solutions failing us left and right, a deeper conversation needs to be had, held within a larger framework of meaning-making.  Let us zoom out for a few minutes and take in the...

What if “God” is pattern recognition?

What if “God” is pattern recognition?  I’ve been chipping away at my own Unified Theory (just as physicists have been trying to crack a Unified Theory that explains everything) and while it will go to infinity as a mystery, there’s a convergence of science and...

Violence, vulnerability, oppression, and us.

Survival mode.  Thank God for survival mode – because we survived.  Unlike, dammit, the hundreds of people IN A HOSPITAL in Gaza today, that were blown up while in their most vulnerable state.  A bomb blows up a hospital.  Likewise the women and...

Solar eclipse, October 14, 2023

The sky darkens.  Bird activity ceases.  Not a single leaf quivers in the still air. The quiet – so quiet it’s loud. The cloud blanket overhead slips silently across the sky, undulating in thickness. A gray pallor settles over the neighboring houses, trees...