Something I've long believed in the premise of this book which I haven't read

Burning Bush 2.0

I figured out recently that I'm working 75 hours a week so it's no wonder really that this project has been neglected.  I still have occasional spikes of views in the thousands but I don't understand what's behind that.  I don't think it's people.

Anyway, I've always taken it for granted that the Holy Spirit's palette and lexicon are comprehensive and utterly inclusive.  I remember from History of the Catholic Church the story of the impact on St. Augustine by children singing outside his window.   They were singing 'Pick up. Pick up. Pick up and read." He turned to the bible with a new level of attention. I really need to read his Confessions.  I had some preconceived ideas of it as preachy and religiose.  'Confessions' sounds preoccupied with 'sin' which I find boring as a focus.

Jimmy Carter's article on a major decision in his life

Losing My Religion For Equality

I've mentioned before, I think, this little story within Autobiography of a Yogi.  Yogananda told of an old female monastic who wanted to join a particular monastery.  She had been refused because she was a woman.  She replied "We are all feminine in relation to God." She was admitted.  

Thomas Cahill on Bill Moyers

link to an interview with Thomas Cahill who wrote How the Irish Saved Civilization

He's talking about Pope Francis.  I'm inspired and encouraged by Pope Francis.  

well done context ads!

I haven't posted anything in such a long time.  Heavy sigh!

tonight I checked in on the stats then clicked on some recently viewed post and there in the 'Amazon Contextual Product Ads' were two book titles which I love together.  It was Toward the One and A Man Called Intrepid.  Both feature the same image of Madeleine / Noor Inayat Khan a spy who was instrumental in breaking the Enigma code.  I hope I said that right.  Enigma was a machine and a code. I think.

The Imitation Game, goes in to the same territory.

Now the Contextual Ads are showing Toward The One and Get Smart. funny.

Annonyme is alive

ummm.... I do want to do this still.  I'm still interested.  I just work a lot, have teen aged daughter and, although I think all day throughout other activities, by the time I have a half hour or so (which is rare) those thoughts are droopy and not presenting themselves in formation.  My posts are extremely brief because I realized that if I waited till I had time to develop a thought there would be no blog.

It's always on my mind to correct this prioritization disability embedded in circumstance.

  I just checked in and found another one of those bizarre spikes in views.  It's not just a rusty crawler.  I wish I knew what's up with that.  I think there's a really huge class in Israel, (an auditorium class like the Astronomy class I tried to take at the University of Maryland at 19) (what was I thinking?) with fabulously large numbers of students.  I think they are surveying blogs with religious themes, for some reason, and I'm a sample.  That's the only explanation I can come up with for another spike of 1332 views amidst the barren-nobody-looking-plain of negative stats around that number.  The page view spikes are clearly coming from Israel.  What?

If it were daytime I'd run outside and take a picture of the bushes in front of my super humble apartment building.  There was a growth spurt in the past week or so due to warm and rainy weather.  That greening of a clipped shrub coincided with a talk on the development of dendrites in the brain given by the principal of the school I work in.  Together they reminded me of my old speculation that the burning bush is a metaphor for the mind.  Actually, I pretty much think of mountains, roof tops, tops of stairs and ladders and upper rooms as representing the mind.  A friend of mine had a lovely dream she shared regarding the end of the world.  She dreamed every body went up on the roof of her house to watch the end.  The mood was light as if for a picnic.