Origin of this whole darned show…

Where do I come from? How did I get here? Like this? Well, as a conspiration of the molecules, atoms, events and relationships, history and cataclysms have brought me here. And here is where I am from; I will live from here. Flesh from the edge of space, from the

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Dive toward the liberation of doubt

I live so far away from who I wanted to be when I grew up – a scientist, my world built on what could be proven with measurement, numbers, and the experiments woven from them. My world is now language and ideas, things that are ever in motion and often

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Seas of possibility …

The numeric exponent that might calculate the number of missed possibilities from any final outcome achieved would wrap the world with its length. It’s incalculable. Every word we uttered or wrote, every ornament we chose for the Christmas tree, and any book we finally picked up to read over the

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Yes. Yes. Yes.

I can hardly write. The words pasted over this morning’s Almanac card slayed me. Text within this block will maintain its original spacing when published never forget you are a breathing accident of chance ample with reverberations of the impossible a bright buoyant moment in the dark indifferent stream of

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Patience with change …

“[P]atience with all attempts at changing … is respect bestowed on the present…” Maria Popova This quote, from Maria Popova’s An Almanac of Birds, caused me to pause when I first read it. Of course that is true! Taking our time to move away from what has been is a

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Year A, Second Sunday after Christmas

Theme: Supersized Superheroes Quotes What do we do with our lives;we leave only a mark.Will our story shine like a lightor end in the dark? Give it all or nothingTerry Britten, Gary Lyle, We Don’t Need Another Hero (Thunderdome) Superheroes were born in the minds of people desperate to be

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Year A, Advent Four

Theme: Babies and Stars: Promise or Potential? Quotes Potential has a shelf lifeMargaret Atwood All we are not stares back at what we are.W. H. Auden Revised Common Lectionary Readings Isaiah 7:10-16Psalm 80:1-7, 17-19Romans 1:1-7Matthew 1:18-25 For complete texts, please see Vanderbilt Lectionary Resources: Revised Common Lectionary Texts For commentary

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Year A, Advent Three

Theme: Hard Work Quotes Most people do not really want freedom, because freedom involves responsibility, and most people are frightened of responsibility.Sigmund Freud, Civilization and Its Discontents When you live for a strong purpose, then hard work isn’t an option; it’s a necessity.Steve Pavlina Revised Common Lectionary Readings Isaiah 35:1-10,

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Year A, Advent Two

Theme: Those Crazies; They Have Always Been with Us Quotes Being crazy isn’t enoughDr. Seuss Looks like what drives me crazyDon’t have no effect on you–But I’m gonna keep on at itTill it drives you crazy, too.Langston Hughes, Selected Poems In a world full of people, there’s only some want to

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Year A, First Sunday after Christmas

Theme: Accompaniment: It takes all of us. Quotes It was no messenger or angel but one’s presence that saved them.Isaiah 63:9 Amended Be here now.Ram Dass Revised Common Lectionary Readings Alternate Readings Words to Introduce the Readings We celebrate a new year by singing out the old year and making

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