I’ve been awarded the “Thoughtful Blogger Award” by Jolly Roger at Reconstitution 2.0. JR said the most lovely thing: Virus Head is one of the most gracious people I’ve encountered in my years of blogging. She has a gentle patience that almost makes me feel bad for the chainsaw approach I take to some of my more notable commenters. I DON’T feel bad, of course, but seeing her way stops me dead in my tracks from time to time. For…
Leave to someone working in theoretical neurobiology and
What Greek Goddess are you? You are Athena! Born from the head of Zeus himself, this goddess is the most respected and capable of all the goddesses. Like this goddess of defensive warfare, crafts and wisdom, you are courageous as a warrior, cunning as a fox, and wise beyond your years. You do not try to be a leader, but you are one merely because you have the raw material that renders admiration and followers. Though you may not know…
Children’s views on angels. I only know the names of two angels. Hark and Harold. ~Gregory, 5 Everybody’s got it all wrong. Angels don’t wear halos anymore. I forget why, but scientists are working on it. ~Olive, 9 It’s not easy to become an angel! First, you die. Then you go to heaven, and then there’s still the flight training to go through. And then you got to agree to wear those angel clothes. ~Matthew, 9 Angels work for God…
I stumbled across a great post at live. laugh. love. As a person trying to do things to make this world a better place, it makes me very angry to read the glorification of violence and death in violence as something done out of love and endorsed by God. Loving your neighbor as yourself does not include trying to kill them in the first place. In a global sense, aren’t we all neighbors? Aren’t we all brothers and sisters? Seems…
Strangely, I find that I am a bit sad to hear that Tammy Faye (Bakker, Messner) has died. In appearance, she was more artificial than artificial, but there was something endearing about that to me. I found her very likable, and I think she meant others well – especially as she got older. I think she was a little pathological, and of course she had terrible taste in men. There was something so odd about her, but still… I liked…