Stained Glass: oddly shaped bits of color arranged to form a picture. Life: oddly shaped bits of experience arranged to form a character.
Those born with the gift of nurturing imagine we will guide our children on magical discoveries. In the meantime, we practice on surrogates – other peoples’ children – nieces and nephews, cherished friends, sunday school classes and scout troops.
Enter the ‘spinster paradigm’ – the single person with the car, career, house, and three cats. Whatever the form, there’s someone to miss you when you’re gone and greet you when you get home.
Once upon a time, and in a few other cultures, the bedroom was a perk of being married, right up there with the big party and three shiny new toasters. But, that’s old hat these days.
Day one of the new schedule, sort of… I was up & out this morning to join my neighbor and her dog for the “morning constitutional stroll”. On my doorstep was a pair of fliers announcing a group promoting freedom and the voice of the unheard. So, I’ve given them a little more than an hour of …
One afternoon, a young man showed up on my doorstep, offering me the opportunity to buy some magazines and thus support his education. We spoke for a while, and finally broached the obvious subject. You see, he’s gay, and I’m a conservative christian. While his persona was easily noticeable, mine came as a bit of …
A few extra notes on the Temple Tours experience. RE: the Monastery and the Benedictine Monks – their group prayer time with the chanting in the sanctuary occurs 7 times each day, each time with a focused topic of prayer, and they begin at 4:45 every morning. I don’t often _see_ 4:45 in the morning, much less be up, …