Sunday, March 17, 2013
regardless of race, religion, union or Creed
Jesus was a carpenter.
The New York City Carpenter’s local posted a YouTube video that celebrates shrouding St. Patricks in scaffold.
#7 on Billboards Hot 100 in 2000
In the early 1980’s I was part of a team of young men who went way up into St. Patrick’s ceiling to swap out the theatrical lighting.
We went up in Genie lifts. Over amp’d and under paid.
I pulled one from the dumpster for a souvenir, lugged it home and I’ve kept it ever since.
Hangs in my kitchen.
Saturday, March 16, 2013
we harmony
cduniverse.com
sjsue1afall2012.com
Women’s voices stimulate the area of a man’s brain that also processes music.
That’s what British research found in a study of brain activity in a dozen men. A male brain tries to decipher modulation in a women's voice--it tries to figure out what she means--- so a female is perceived clearer and better able to communicate information.
Male voices activate imagery in a man’s mind, the “minds eye” of the brain.
This tends to confuse men who are trying to “picture” the speaker, whereas they just go with the flow of a woman.
That sounds about right. :-)
We knew that back in 1919.
jadedism.com
Friday, March 15, 2013
Thursday, March 14, 2013
you may say that I’m a dreamer
but I’m not the only one
news.com.au
Did you watch the crowd in St. Peter’s Square last evening? The loving glow was religious faith at its best. There is no denying faith is a thing of beauty when you can read it in their eyes.
Still, I was disappointed. The unusual circumstance created by Benedict’s resignation offered a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity that was lost to more of the same.
I wanted a Pope younger and more dynamic, in touch with the modern zeitgeist and courageous to set things right. I wanted his first speech to openly recognize that all of humanity regardless of religion or sexual orientation is to be as equal in the eyes of the Church itself, as we are in the eyes of God.
I wanted a Pope with the integrity to accept and acknowledge that a group of old, unmarried men have no business in the politics of an adult woman’s body. I wanted a Pope to celebrate the healthy impulse of love in an adult-same-sex attraction as free of guilt and shame inside the Church hierarchy as it inevitably will be, out.
I wanted a Pope with the honesty and the good common sense to state plainly that one thousand year old dogma is a losing proposition in the 21st century. And I wanted that Pope to state with critical clarity that huge problems begin at home in the Priesthood, amongst the Bishops and the Cardinals and he who is without sin can only cast the first stone.
In short, I wanted a Pope to reach out into the hearts and minds of a rapt and global audience last night--me included--and wrench from the sordid headlines a moral clarity and an ethical vision of personal accountability that rang so universally true it thrilled the faithful, galvanized the rest of us and returned to the Vatican a virtuous authority it once embodied but has squandered through centuries of economic and sexual malfeasance, and the lying to cover it up.
Instead, we got Pope Francis.
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