" ... it was easier to believe that two Yankee Professors could lie than to admit that stones could fall from heaven." -- Attributed to Thomas Jefferson So (allegedly) said our third President on the subject of meteorites. The UFOlogists will never let him live it down. I thought of … [Read more...]
“The Color of Electrum”–Ezekiel Visits the 60s
Novelist and poet Valerie Nieman, author of Blood Clay, did me the honor last month of "tagging" me for a writers' blog hop on the theme of "My Next Big Thing." Val posted on her current project, a gripping, suspenseful novel called Backwater, about a young girl’s coming of age and her encounter … [Read more...]
Kris Kringle, Christ Child – Some Outsider Thoughts on Christmas
"And the angels came, did you hear them sing? In the shining light of the maternity wing Sayin' 'People, do not be afraid, Love is new! In the Heart of every child Love is born to you.'" -- Kathleen Hannan, "Every Child" It's that awkward time of year again. When store clerks puzzle over … [Read more...]
Maccabees, Taliban, and the Real Story of Hanukkah
I wrote this "Hanukkah Q&A" ten years ago for a web course on Judaism. Things have changed a lot since then, in the world and in myself. Back then I didn't identify religiously, as I do today, as a Unitarian Universalist of Jewish heritage. But when I wrote, "there's no holy book, ours or … [Read more...]
Don Quixote, Dulcinea, and Danny Shapiro
"To each his Dulcinea, Though she's naught but flame and air." -- "Man of La Mancha" I've heard it said that everybody ought to read Don Quixote three times in his or her life: in youth, in middle age, and in the ripeness of one's elder years. I've already followed two-thirds of this … [Read more...]
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