Tuesday, September 28, 2010

Theophany of Parenthood

God is love, and parenthood is pure theophany. I understand now why the central images the bible uses to communicate God's love revolve around the love/loss of children.

Thursday, September 16, 2010

It's not only important to ask, 'Where God did I encounter You today?', but to also ask, 'Where God did I ignore You today?'

-J Hanshaw

Saturday, September 4, 2010

"I am a former Trotskyite--which, as you all know--is the royal road to NeoConservatism".

-Charles Krauthammer

"What if we're all wrong?"

"I was on stage with Allen Ginsberg in the 1967 Human Be-In in Golden Gate Park and we're sitting there looking out at 10,000 people and the sun is setting and there's a parachutist coming down... Timothy Leary is on stage with Gary Snyder, and Allen turns to me and whispers, 'What if we're all wrong?'"

-from an interview with Beat poet, Lawrence Ferlinghetti