Elephants are so much like people.
Monthly Archives: February 2020
Life in the outer darkness
The appointed Gospel text for Sunday was Matthew’s Parable of the Wedding Banquet, Matthew 22:1-14.
I was struck by verses 11-14 —
11“But when the king came in to see the guests, he noticed a man there who was not wearing a wedding robe, 12and he said to him, ‘Friend, how did you get in here without a wedding robe?’ And he was speechless. 13Then the king said to the attendants, ‘Bind him hand and foot, and throw him into the outer darkness, where there will be weeping and gnashing of teeth.’ 14For many are called, but few are chosen.”
— in that, last Tuesday at McDonald’s, I’m the one who got thrown into the outer darkness.
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Pinocchio
“I’m sexy and I know it.” — NOT!
ADVISORY: Lewd.
Ironically, I really like the GEICO Pinocchio commercials.
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“Normal” life goals out of reach – for millions
Bookmarks:
“Normal” life goals out of reach – for millions • I want this job. • Marketing strategies, part 5 • Farmers unite to combat hunger • Marlene Pinnock follow-up • Alex Hribal update • Stranger murders father breaking up a fight
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More about the Priestly Source
The theory that would become JEDP, began with questions of word use. Why do some passages refer to God as “God,” others as “the LORD,” and others as “Lord GOD?” Why do some passages call Moses’ mountain “Sinai” and others “Horeb?” As one sorts these things out, it becomes clear that each of the four supposed authors is distinctive not just in word use, but also in writing style, interests, beliefs, and even politics. Continue reading More about the Priestly Source
Podcast — Exonerating Meghan
There is no truth without love.
ADVISORY: This one’s a bit of a downer.
Exonerating Meghan
Elton John, “Candle in the Wind”
Related: The Rifleman, “Day of Reckoning”
Related: Mordochai the troll
Related: Prince William says he can no longer ‘put his arm around’ Harry ahead of Sandringham crisis talks
Related: Open heart
Related: Jason James Britt
Tags: Meghan Markle, Media, Fake news, Bullying, Projection
The second chakra
ADVISORY: Discusses sex.
Tuesday, December 31, my heart got set on a hotel stay. But there was sure to be nothing available that night — New Year’s Eve — and it was infeasible for me to get a room the next night, given the hoops a homeless man must jump through to be inside on New Year’s Day. So I reserved a room for two nights later, Thursday the second. Continue reading The second chakra
The poop on the stoop
The shelter boots us out at 5:45 a.m. daily. You must take all your belongings with you and cannot come back until 2:30.
Until February 2013, my custom on non-work days was to go to Dunkin’ Donuts to pray, drink coffee and use the bathroom, until the library would open at 10:00 and I could go online. Then the temp agency closed down, and I could no longer afford Dunkin’ Donuts coffee, and so began going to McDonald’s instead.
Some days I would arrive at Dunkin’ Donuts before opening. One such morning, I arrived to find a large, neat pile of human feces on the doorstep. It was clearly no accident. Who had left it there, and why, had no bearing on the fact that it was there now.
When staff arrived we opened the door and stepped inside very carefully to avoid any contact between the door and the stool, or our feet and the stool. However, I knew that if nothing were done about it, eventually, inevitably, customers who could not take the time to be as observant and careful would step in it and begin tracking it through the store.
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Dreaming of my own place
Some of them act so much like people act
in the places I won’t go.
Where trees thrive, people thrive
This thinking goes back to 1973.
I was a senior in high school, running an errand in the family car. I must have been listening to WKSU. This 5- or 15-minute segment came on. A female spokesperson for the ACLU said that, under the compulsory school attendance law, a minor can only be in one of two places: a school, or a penal facility. In her view there was no real difference.
I was an honors student and deeply convicted that education is the answer to poverty. Thus her remarks left me incensed. More than that, whereas I’ve never been a conservative, it seemed to me that the ACLU and other, like-minded movements were bent on destroying all order in society. The family unit was under attack. Marriage was under attack. The schools were under attack. Change for its own sake, which seemed to be what these people were after, isn’t good. Nothing can be built on a foundation of chaos. A child needs to root oneself in earth that will be in the same place today as tomorrow. A tree can’t grow in quicksand.
The Homeless Blogger 