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Let’s just stick to this image:
A tall woman comes up to the front of the chapel, pink hat over steel hair and freckled brown skin. When she begins to sing her voice is uneven, imperfect, strained:
“Put on your face….”
She makes it through the verse, takes a breath.
The congregation starts in, unevenly, […]
Imagine, if you would, the landscape of Egypt-of-old.
Think of the sharp divides that the dry air leave between day and night. Think of the sudden line between the desert and the fertile land, and the way the flood presses back the sand, and the sand presses back the flood. Think of the river flowing […]
So earlier I happened to follow a link to a person commenting about the SCA and social dynamics therein. Specifically, they commented on the tension between the people who are seeking authenticity, and the people who are looking to have fun.
They touched on a number of places each of these people cause trouble for […]
We were late getting to church today – we got up to the balcony to sit down just as the guest preacher was finishing up the Tolkien quote of the everything lately (from The Fellowship of the Ring):
“I wish it need not have happened in my time,” said Frodo. “So do I,” said Gandalf, […]
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