This past Sunday night, I was asked in a Zoom Meeting of a Church Community I have been attending, since soon after the pandemic began, if I might provide some reflection on the Ecological angles for Lent. As that meeting had been taking place, and the group leader/facilitator Joe Webb was asking participants about how they might contribute (as he Continue Reading
Facebook has really botched user friendliness, for anyone who wished to search for something in their own timeline. That’s pathetic. It’s bad enough that users don’t really have access to their own timeline data without having a PhD level technical degree in the Facebook graph (and even then, their idea of what data belongs to the user who is the Continue Reading
I have just under 3 and a half months left here at 1801. The building has sold, and I have to find a new place, either my permanent place (the goal since last year at this time) , or another temporary place on the way to finding that “new home”. Covid has certainly been a gigantic monkey wrench in the Continue Reading
I’ve often mused about where we might be in Electric Vehicles if we had started back when the Ecological Crisis was brought to the public attention in a big way. (There WAS an early EV that was produced and leased to people back in the early 90’s, but that effort was “mysteriously” (or, NOT so mysteriously) stopped and literally torn Continue Reading
“The time has come to rediscover the significance and implications of the first article of our Creed: our confession of God as the almighty Father, Creator of Heaven and Earth. We do not own the earth and all that is in it, but are creatures ourselves. We are not the masters of nature, but God’s children entrusted with the wellbeing Continue Reading
Heart-melt….from the granddaughter, via her Mommy.(More below, with captions. Click title of post to see them on the post’s dedicated page)
It doesn’t take an expert to know that this demonic man is the last thing we need to get our collective act together. His lack of leadership and modeling of abject selfishness is literally a deadly example.
News agencies are reporting the worst week yet for the rise in cases of Covid-19. All our institutions and organizations: faith, education, government, media…..how are they so woefully absent and , as a result, complicit in this mass denial of what is happening? Of course, there are some exceptions. But the order of the day seems to be that this Continue Reading
When Mike Pence and Donald Trump speak of “science”, they are actually meaning “seance”. Magical thinking that fuels massive cognitive dissonance, forcing them to willfully ignore any real scientific data, and throw up a smokescreen that claims that Climate Science is divided on this. It isn’t.
“It’s clearer than ever that Donald Trump won’t be stopped with a scoop—neither will his militias, his lawyers, or his 50,000 “poll watchers.” The worst-case scenario is apocalyptic. The best-case scenario buys the next generation time to try for something better.” — Jeff Sharlet in https://ift.tt/30iMHAJ The 2020 Election Isn’t About Idealism. It’s About Survival It’s clearer than ever that Continue Reading
from Vanessa Burnett 17hours ago: · “Tweet today from the president of the United States. I don’t know what this means any more than anyone else but it sure looks like a push for voter intimidation.”