Rev Dr Sparky on Real/igion

Tag: Life

  • Gratitude Workarounds

    Photo by Chris Ensey on Unsplash Because the wheel’s still spinning By now we probably all know the terrific Zen tale that teaches us never to assume we know whether events will turn out to be good for us or bad for us. The story goes like this: A man’s horse runs away — bad news! The horse returns,…

  • On Refusing to Be Ill

    Photo by Allan Bueno on Unsplash And what do to when this no longer works Okay, fine. I’m ill. It surprises me that I am even considering writing this post because I am not allowed to be ill, I have never been allowed to be ill, and part of me is sure that if I just refuse to…

  • Waiting Around with John Milton

    Photo by Johannes Plenio on Unsplash Could be paradise up ahead Sometimes, if you’re feeling uncertain and sort of irrelevant, an old, dead, white-guy poem is just the thing you need to read. I mean that in the nicest way, too. I do love a great variety of humanity, but I am essentially an archaic, white, middlebrow…

  • The Real Reason We Don’t Get Along

    Photo by Ben Wicks on Unsplash We’re living backward. Americans, they say, are ideologically and culturally split down the middle, just like that cheap pair of pants I foolishly bent down in that time. Since the Founders, we have always enjoyed a lively back-and-forth exchange of ideas, but now it appears the division is becoming personal…

  • Is This Life Broken or What?

    Photo by Markus Spiske on Unsplash I couldn’t tell from the manual I’m getting real tired of trying to get Life to work right, and I’ll bet you are too. So I complained to the Management. Everybody assumes this Life thing is the best thing ever. It’s a powerhouse product; a gamechanger. It provides us with sunshine…

  • Truths of a Cosmic Mom

    Photo by 🐣 Luca Iaconelli 🦊 on Unsplash I get it now… My mother was not like other mothers. Looking back, I can see that she was actually living in a cosmic sphere that only casually intersected with our suburban life. And the cryptic sayings she imparted, that sounded so ordinary, held uncommon wisdom. To look at…

  • I’ve Flunked Traveling

    Photo by Daniel Eledut on Unsplash Thank goodness. Ask anyone what they would do if they had the leisure, and what do they answer? That’s right: “Survey says: Travel!” I’ll bet nine out of ten Americans see themselves traveling the world, broadening their horizons by visiting countries not as great as this one and posting pictures…