• The Shape of the Leaf

    When someone or some circumstance takes what is mine, I tend to bloat up with justified anger.  Yet there’s no reason for anger, no call to injustice.  Everything I own is but a borrowing, and a remainder bequeathed when I pass.  All that I survey as mine in truth belongs to that which lives its […]

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  • The Unplanned

    I think the fundamental mistake people make regarding a higher power is that they liken God’s mind to their own minds.  The more religious among us assume, for example, that God is in control of the universe.  Many of us believe that God has drawn a vast and indescribably complex central plan. We believe that […]

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  • Worlds

    The atom master smashed his club down upon the rock, and worlds he forged from the hearts of stars.  He pounded his rod down again, and universes hatched, squeezing through an orifice that had no size.  And yet, he fashioned the universes in ignorance.  Worlds within worlds he smelted by his surmises.  In the infinite […]

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  • What Is It That You Want?

    Some thoughts about our deepest desires.  First off, dreams are often impractical.  Let’s not worry about that.  If they were practical, they wouldn’t be dreams.  Second, when we start to move toward the things we really want, obstacles often pop up.  We become afraid of not getting what we desire.  We start to convince ourselves […]

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