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Minutes to Memories
By Nils von Kalm http://soulthoughts.com “Days turn to minutes, and minutes to memories. Life sweeps away the dreams that we have planned” – John Mellencamp, Minutes to Memories There is a scene in the movie Up in the Air where George Clooney’s character is trying to convince his brother-in-law-to-be to not jilt his bride on […]
Walter Brueggemann’s 19 theses
1. Everybody lives by a script. The script may be implicit or explicit. It may be recognized or unrecognized, but everybody has a script. 2. We get scripted. All of us get scripted through the process of nurture and formation and socialization, and it happens to us without our knowing it. 3. The dominant scripting […]
Caring for Creation
My five litre failure? October 23, 2010 by greenFish I ¢â‚¬â„¢ve been in a state of shock for the past few weeks. A state of disbelief. When the water bill arrived, I had to look at the figures at least twice. Then, still doubtful, I walked out to the front yard to check the water meter. […]
Walking a defence against dementia
Walking could protect brain against shrinking, US research says Neurologists who monitored 300 volunteers over 13 years say walkers could be defending themselves against memory loss Martin Wainwright guardian.co.uk, Wednesday 13 October 2010 19.15 BST The historian George Macaulay Trevelyan wrote in 1913 that he had two doctors: “My left leg and my right”. Now […]
A Special Gift
A young man learns what’s most important in life from the guy next door It had been some time since Jack had seen the old man. College, girls, career, and life itself got in the way. In fact, Jack moved clear across the country in pursuit of his dreams. There, in the rush of his […]
Money Making and Money Giving
*Sightings* 10/11/2010 – Martin E. Marty Ungodly and godly money making and money giving are key topics while many Christian churches gear up for November as ¢â‚¬Å“stewardship month. ¢â‚¬ As they and others face ¢â‚¬Å“budget-setting time, ¢â‚¬ multiple items netted from the public press and the internet beckon for attention. Several focus on the more gross stories […]
SIMPLICITY AND COMPLEXITY (a little exercise in philosophy)
Class: Who’s right? For every complex problem, there is a solution that is simple, neat, and wrong. ¢â‚¬” H. L. Mencken For every problem there is a solution which is simple, obvious, and wrong.” ¢â‚¬” Albert Einstein Versus Thomas Aquinas: If a thing can be done adequately by means of one, it is superfluous to […]
Burnt Biscuits
“When I was a kid, my mom liked to make breakfast food for dinner every now and then. And I remember one night in particular when she had made breakfast after a long, hard day at work. On that evening so long ago, my mom placed a plate of eggs, sausage and extremely burned biscuits […]
Happiness – and The Mayonnaise Jar
The Mayonnaise Jar When things in your life seem almost too much to handle, when 24 Hours in a day is not enough, remember the mayonnaise jar and 2 cups of coffee. A professor stood before his philosophy class and had some items in front of him. When the class began, wordlessly, he picked up […]
David Suzuki: Ecological Idealist
When there’s a choice about our caring for the earth between the needs of grandchildren/human relationships and short-term monetary profits, Suzuki is the best contemporary exponent of ‘the more responsible way’. I’d call him a prophet – conveying messages which are so true they’re hurtful, and often uncomfortable. He’s sometimes described as ‘one of the […]
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