So last night I was thinking about the lengths some Jewish people go through to obey their religious stricture against doing work on the sabbath. This can involve elaborate set ups with lights on timers and pre-prepared meals and all manner of things that I don’t remember. And all of it hinging on […]
The Tibetans have an interesting variation on prayer, in the form of prayer wheels. A prayer wheel has a prayer written on it, usually many, many times, and is designed so that a person can easily spin it. The idea is that when you spin the prayer wheel it is as if you […]
It’s Friday the Thirteenth. I could talk about that but when it comes down to it, that’ll happen again next month, so maybe I’ll talk about it then. Instead I’d like to mention that yesterday was the 200th birthday of both Charles Darwin and Abraham Lincoln.
Now if those two seem like strange people […]
Today was one of those rainy gray days. The kind of day where the light makes it feel like twilight all the way through, where it feels like the day is ending even when it’s barely begun.
I asked God if she ever felt like that, like whatever she was supposed to get done didn’t […]