childhood fantasies
childhood fantasiesremind meof youwho I haven’t metyeti miss you so much.please, tell me (when)i will see youagain
Category: Spiritual Reflections
Music of My Soul
the music of my soul,youstop, start, in seeming unforgiving rhythm. why? so hard, so precise,like a machinethat lives and breathes,flawless until it isn’t,one untilmany …. I’ve decided I want to see how long I can keep my daily streak, because this is fun. I’ll to try to keep it creatively spiritual, quick creative free verse […]
Happy Resurrection Day
Ostara aka Easter actually happened a few weeks ago at the Spring Equinox, so Happy Resurrection Day. Come on Christian invaders! If you’re going to steal our holy days at least do it right. Is what I might say if I were a modern-day polytheist with a northern hemisphere, temperate climate based pantheon that I […]
Religion, Peace, and War
One more thing before I go into my traditional pre-Easter sulk while the majority of the world tiffs me off a smidge more than usual as people celebrate a nice guy’s murder with chocolate and bunnies and other Ostara (Germanic Goddess) -> Easter related traditions. Which I have nothing against. But let’s talk about the […]
The Divinity of Jesus
RE: https://perfectchaos.org/2021/03/29/the-central-issue-of-theology/ This is re: the either/or of a blog I read which posits if Jesus is God and the only way to the Father, then only Christians can be saved. Or vice versa that orthodox Christianity must be wrong. Why? Please see for example Nostra Aetate. You don’t get much more orthodox than the […]
Goodbye Organized Religion
Quick closure post to say that this time I mean it. My on and off again relationship with organized religion in general, I am switching to off. We can worship in small groups or in our homes and gardens and with people of so many different faith traditions. We do not need to bow to […]
FF: Leave the Light On
CLICK THE FROG TO JOIN THE PARTY Not sure if I’ll be back,but leave the light on.When every other light goes dark…. she thinks of his parting words. She remembers stories: oil that never ran out, hopes too strong to be quenched by physics. Sometimes, she wakes from dreams of him and, for a second, […]
FPQ: The Audacity of Hope
Fandango’s Provocative Question #114 – This, That, and The Other (fivedotoh.com) Do you think that there is any chance that the U.S. Congress will ever take decisive, bipartisan action to pass and enact nationwide common sense gun laws to try and stem the tide of mass shootings, or is the best that the American Congress will ever do is to […]
FF: Marry Me
Click the frog to join the party. Don’t care what they say. This is between you and me. Let’s declare our Undying loveBefore the oceanIn front of friends and family and … everyone elseOn a beach, sand between our toes,Carefully cracking glass ceilings beneathour feet. Tiki torches stuck in the groundwhere they belong,can light paths […]
FF: Some Instruction Required
CLICK THE FROG TO ADD YOUR STORY Sophia had never gardened before, but how hard could it be? So, she bought a toy rosebush with gorgeous pink florets and planted it. For a few years, the tiny bush grew, until one year it stopped flowering for no reason. Furious at being cheated, Sophia sliced the […]
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