Rev Dr Sparky on Real/igion

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  • Through the Portal

    Photo by Joshua Rondeau on Unsplash reluctant poetry It’s just another magic place to go, like pocket parks or winter forest clearings,where you can stop deciding who to be, or why;and ease your iron shoulders of their weight: So I am not afraid to get away from hereinto the vasty deep that beckons there, alight with wisdom,…

  • Please stop interrup —

    Photo by David Clode on Unsplash The fierce urgency of [unintelligible] My mother often interrupted me while I was talking to tell me not to interrupt others while they were talking. Once I boldly responded that she had, in fact, interrupted me to tell me that. But only once, because my mother was not to be…

  • Now See Hear

    Photo by kyle smith on Unsplash Newsreaders are losing their senses If the content of the news weren’t crazy enough to keep me away from the nightly media scatshow, the failing language skills of the commentators is. They’ve forgotten the meanings of simple verbs like “listen” and “look.” “Take a listen” This is wrong. We can “take a…

  • Madcap Delinquent Prophet on a Scooter

    Photo by Marc Sendra Martorell on Unsplash On taking back your power My new electric scooter arrived last week, and I am already hopelessly in love with it. It’s the stand-up kind — I just step on with one foot, kick off with the other foot, and toggle a power switch that glides me forward. Wind in my hair……

  • Fear Is the Mindkiller

    Photo by Tofoli Douglas on Flickr Walk toward it. We had a fine time at our house the other night watching the iconic 1953 film Invaders from Mars. With our CGI-jaded senses, we giggled at how the “Martian” was basically an actor shown from the neck up wearing a Carmen-Miranda-style headdress, only with tentacles rather than fruit,…

  • For the Church Ladies Who Always Bring a Covered Dish

    Photo by Gor Davtyan on Unsplash reluctant poetry What outrageous ecstasyis locked behind those silent lips? Still hands don’t clap or lift,but merely tremble in the Presence,weary from the work. Straight-backed supplicants,while rapt, do not cry out;and sometimes they may sing or smilebut do not keen or shout. And is this truly worship,bound so quiet and…

  • A Tiny Religion

    Photo by Samuel Austin on Unsplash It’s not easy. But it’s simple. I have to laugh at the way people complicate religion. It’s just as funny as the way I get all confused when I reorganize stuff: “Well, if I put that in there, then where will this go? And if I move these things, they’ll just…