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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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TBT/GTS#3: Peter Frazer, MD – A Life Redeemed
December 1, 2016 – I didn’t really plan to post this on World AIDS Day. It just turned out that way, but I can’t think of a more appropriate time for this story or a more appropriate tale for this … Continue reading
An Open Letter to the President-Elect
“I have often … in the course of the session … looked at that sun behind the President without being able to tell whether it was rising or setting. But now at length I have the happiness to know it … Continue reading
Posted in Angels, belief, health, Love, miracles, prayer, Rebirth, Uncategorized
Tagged Benjamin Franklin, Constitutional Amendment, Health care, Robert F. Kennedy, Trump, U.S. Constitution
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TBT/GTS#2: George “Bud” Falkenberry, Born to Act
Of all these profiles I expect to write – and as you will come to see, there are far too many – this one is the one I want most to get right because, even after more than 30 years … Continue reading
Posted in Angels, Death, health, Love, Uncategorized
Tagged acting, actors, AIDS, AIDS quilt, Alabama, Birmingham-Southern College, Falkenberry, gone too soon, HIV, KKK, Ku Klux Klan, Selma, Upper West Side
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“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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For Bastille Day: Vichyssoise Redux
Around the year 2000, we invited our wonderful longtime Fire Island neighbors, Guy Musquere and Daniel Meyer – along with eight of their Parisian guests – to join us for a Bastille Day dinner, and since I wanted to honor … Continue reading
Posted in Angels, cooking, Holy Spirit, Love, recipes, Uncategorized
Tagged Bastille Day, chives, cold soup, cream soup, Fire Island, French, soup, Versailles, Vichyssoise
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Recipe: The Elusive Magic Cobbler
I’m not sure when I first heard tell of it. Probably listening in on the womenfolks’ conversation while sitting on a folding chair in the back of the Century Methodist Church at a Wednesday night fellowship dinner (while scarfing down … Continue reading
Posted in Angels, cooking, desserts, Love, recipes, Uncategorized
Tagged blueberry cobbler, deep dish pie, easy cobbler, easy dessert, peach cobbler
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