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Dec. 5th, 2019 08:38 pm1. Five Common Misconceptions About the Electoral College
( excerpt )
2. Plodding my way through "Captives in the Night by Loretta Chase" - it's a romantic murder mystery, but the writer isn't really good at writing a mystery, and it was the second book she wrote, apparently...so also sort of weak in the writing. Lots of mistakes. Yet, can't stop reading it for some reason. 50% of the way through.
Also, reading the Hickman show-runned Dawn of X books. Mixed feelings. ( Read more... )
I'm in a reading slump.
3. Music that has been fitting my mood lately...
( Peter Gabriel and Kate Bush - Don't Give Up )
I saw them perform this in concert in Wembley Stadium (London, UK) in 1987. I think it was 1987.
( Sarah McLachlan's Full of Grace )
( Bert JAMSCH - Come Sing Me a Happy Song.. )
( Rachel Loy - Big Sky )
( It's Been a Long Long Long Time Since I've Felt Fine by Guy Forsythe )
5. Meditation Quote of the Day...
A thought doesn't become a problem until we think about it.
6. In the Unitarian Bible Study Group last night we read the first section of Exodus, where the Pharoah asks the midwives to kill the baby of the Israelites if the baby is a boy, if it is a girl to let it live. But the midwives feared God more than the Pharoah and didn't do it, instead they lied to him and said it was impossible.
What was interesting was it wasn't clear if the word was "fear" or in "awe" of God.
( Read more... )
Then we were asked what we held in awe? What made us awe struck?
The Minister mentioned termites...how there is this micrograsm in termites, millions upon billions -- in order for it to digest wood. But it can't work alone, it needs something to make it work -- so it has on top of it a parasite that helps it. Isn't that amazing? She said she found more and more things to be awestruck by of late.
Such as the racing traffic, the kids, the swirling leaves, the tall buildings all working in concert with each other -- like a complex organism.
And I thought about looking up into the Sky and struck by how incredibly beautiful it was, and amazing, and ever changing. And fathomless. I believe in God because of the sky.
Another women talked about the impeachment hearings and how she was struck by the awesome complexity of how our government works, the millions of phone calls, meetings, layers and layers of effort involved and the complexity of the laws themselves.
And another related a story about a child that was born in the uterine sack, was 1.16 pounds, and in the ICU, after the mother had two miscarriages prior to this child...and the child was born within 30 weeks...yet, yet...as of today, the child was of the weight and inches it would have been if born on time, and it is healthy and doing well...and that is just amazing.
What did you see today or this week that struck you with awe? And you thought wow, this is amazing? This world is such an amazing gift, and I'm so lucky to witness this and be here?
( excerpt )
2. Plodding my way through "Captives in the Night by Loretta Chase" - it's a romantic murder mystery, but the writer isn't really good at writing a mystery, and it was the second book she wrote, apparently...so also sort of weak in the writing. Lots of mistakes. Yet, can't stop reading it for some reason. 50% of the way through.
Also, reading the Hickman show-runned Dawn of X books. Mixed feelings. ( Read more... )
I'm in a reading slump.
3. Music that has been fitting my mood lately...
( Peter Gabriel and Kate Bush - Don't Give Up )
I saw them perform this in concert in Wembley Stadium (London, UK) in 1987. I think it was 1987.
( Sarah McLachlan's Full of Grace )
( Bert JAMSCH - Come Sing Me a Happy Song.. )
( Rachel Loy - Big Sky )
( It's Been a Long Long Long Time Since I've Felt Fine by Guy Forsythe )
5. Meditation Quote of the Day...
A thought doesn't become a problem until we think about it.
6. In the Unitarian Bible Study Group last night we read the first section of Exodus, where the Pharoah asks the midwives to kill the baby of the Israelites if the baby is a boy, if it is a girl to let it live. But the midwives feared God more than the Pharoah and didn't do it, instead they lied to him and said it was impossible.
What was interesting was it wasn't clear if the word was "fear" or in "awe" of God.
( Read more... )
Then we were asked what we held in awe? What made us awe struck?
The Minister mentioned termites...how there is this micrograsm in termites, millions upon billions -- in order for it to digest wood. But it can't work alone, it needs something to make it work -- so it has on top of it a parasite that helps it. Isn't that amazing? She said she found more and more things to be awestruck by of late.
Such as the racing traffic, the kids, the swirling leaves, the tall buildings all working in concert with each other -- like a complex organism.
And I thought about looking up into the Sky and struck by how incredibly beautiful it was, and amazing, and ever changing. And fathomless. I believe in God because of the sky.
Another women talked about the impeachment hearings and how she was struck by the awesome complexity of how our government works, the millions of phone calls, meetings, layers and layers of effort involved and the complexity of the laws themselves.
And another related a story about a child that was born in the uterine sack, was 1.16 pounds, and in the ICU, after the mother had two miscarriages prior to this child...and the child was born within 30 weeks...yet, yet...as of today, the child was of the weight and inches it would have been if born on time, and it is healthy and doing well...and that is just amazing.
What did you see today or this week that struck you with awe? And you thought wow, this is amazing? This world is such an amazing gift, and I'm so lucky to witness this and be here?