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A Word, if You Will, about My “Gone too Soon” Profiles
[Dumbledore says, in J. K. Rowling’s Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows, “Words are, in my not-so-humble opinion, our most inexhaustible source of magic.” Which is why, perhaps, I have found this such a difficult piece to write. No magician … Continue reading
Posted in AIDS, Angels, belief, Death, faith, health, Love, poetry, Uncategorized
Tagged ACT UP, AIDS, Ancestry.com, Civilian Warfare, David Haney, Dean Savard, family trees, Fire Island, Fire Island Pines, gone too soon, Mark Simpson, Michael Bishop, Profiles in Grace, Ruffin Cooper, Tim Dlugos
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The Love of God: Diamonds in the Rough (Fourth Annual Posting)
“We have nothing, if not belief.” – Sir Reepicheep, Chief Mouse of Narnia, Voyage of the Dawn Treader (C.S. Lewis) “Do the arithmetic or be doomed to talk nonsense.” – John McCarthy, A.I. trailblazer [1] We are the uncut diamonds … Continue reading
Posted in Angels, belief, biology, cells, diamonds, faith, God the Father, Holy Spirit, Living Water, Love, physics, prayer, quitting, quitting smoking, religion, smoking, Uncategorized
Tagged atoms, cells, compounds, DNA, evolution, geology, Life, living cells, primordial ooze, progress, RNA
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The Flow of God: Living Water (Fourth Annual Posting)
“Then the angel showed me the river of the water of life, bright as crystal, flowing from the throne of God…” – Revelation 22:1 This post is surely my most presumptuous, but perhaps the most important. It is perfectly possible … Continue reading
Posted in Angels, belief, faith, God the Father, Higgs Boson, Higgs Field, Holy Spirit, Living Water, Love, particle physics, physics, prayer, quantum theory, religion, Uncategorized
Tagged Beauty, belief, faith, Goodness, Higgs Boson, Higgs Field, Hope, Large Hadron Collider, Life, Light, Living Water, love, religion, science, Truth, Water of Life
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#dollyofanothercolor
I’ll make this very brief. I was heading downtown on the subway today and sitting right across from me was a little Asian girl about five years old who was clearly in love with her new plaything, a beautiful African-American … Continue reading
“Consider the Lilies…” 2016
How can you not give your whole heart to the unlikely miracle of the day lily, a flower, as we learned from Superstorm Sandy, that takes fully two years to form and then, in one magnificent thrust of proud determination … Continue reading
Posted in Angels, belief, biology, faith, miracles, Uncategorized
Tagged Cedar House, day lilies, Fire Island Pines, Gardening
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Summer’s Bounty, June to September, 2016
As I write this, there is hard cold rain blowing horizontal out the windows. The pool man was here earlier to tie down the cover for winter and I was reminded by the radio a few minutes ago that this … Continue reading
Posted in Angels, faith, God the Father, Love, Uncategorized
Tagged astilbes, beach house, Cedar House, day lilies, deck plantings, Fire Island, Fire Island Pines, Flora, garden, Gardening, hostas, roses, shady gardens
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First Flowering, 2016
Well, it begins…. After six months away from the beach garden, we returned in late April to begin anew. This will be the fourth year since the great salt water inundation by Superstorm Sandy, and already Richard and I have … Continue reading
Posted in Angels, faith, Rebirth, Uncategorized
Tagged azalea, beach house, Beauty, buttercups, garden, Gardening, hostas, lily of the valley, spring, wisteria
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TBT:GTS#1: Randall Robbins, Actor, Teacher, Leader, Friend
INTRODUCTION My over-arching challenge here is to write this post – the first in an occasional series – in such a way that it will keep you smiling even if it may, at first, give you pause. But, I know … Continue reading
Posted in Angels, belief, Death, faith, God the Father, health, Holy Spirit, Love, poetry, prayer, Uncategorized
Tagged "Annie", "Company", acting, actors, AIDS, Carolyn Kirsch, Death, Equity, Equity Library Theatre, HIV, Randall Robbins, Sanford FL, Seminole High School, Theatre, Uta Hagen
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Diamonds in the Rough: Third Annual Posting
“We have nothing, if not belief.” – Sir Reepicheep, Chief Mouse of Narnia, Voyage of the Dawn Treader (C.S. Lewis) “Do the arithmetic or be doomed to talk nonsense.” – John McCarthy, A.I. trailblazer [1] We are the uncut diamonds … Continue reading
Posted in Angels, belief, biology, cells, Death, diamonds, faith, God the Father, Higgs Boson, Higgs Field, Holy Spirit, Living Water, Love, particle physics, physics, prayer, quitting, quitting smoking, religion, Uncategorized
Tagged Angels, belief, diamonds, evolution, guardian angels, soul, strong atomic force, weak atomic force
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The Flow of God: Third Annual Posting
“Then the angel showed me the river of the water of life, bright as crystal, flowing from the throne of God…” – Revelation 22:1 This post is surely my most presumptuous, but perhaps the most important. It is perfectly possible … Continue reading
Posted in Angels, belief, biology, Death, faith, God the Father, Higgs Boson, Higgs Field, Holy Spirit, Living Water, Love, miracles, particle physics, physics, poetry, prayer, quantum theory, religion, Uncategorized
Tagged Beauty, Goodness, Hope, Life, Light, love, Truth
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