With a farewell speech that contained searing attacks on capitalism, Marxism, birth control, sex, drugs and “lax morals,” Pope Benedict XVI has deeply underscored his church’s irrelevancy to Latin American Catholics and proved how out of touch he is with God’s movement in modern times.
By all accounts Joseph Ratzinger was and is a highly intelligent [...]

(No, unfortunately it’s not for Kira. This came through in my email this morning, so I thought I’d pass it on.)
May 3, 2007
Good News Travels Fast!
Your [tag]activism[/tag] just saved supplements from being turned into “untested drugs”! [tag]Big Pharma[/tag] will be back, but today, we can do a victory dance!
Thank you 435,005 times. That’s the number [...]

Just popping in here to mention that in the mail today was the first earnings check I’ve ever received from our [tag]POD[/tag] [tag]publisher[/tag]!
Okay, so 7 Mysteries isn’t endangering anyone on the [tag]Times[/tag] [tag]Bestseller[/tag] list yet — but it sure was nice to see $omething come back for all that hard work.
Don’t know what the [...]

You know how intense the clash of disparately evolved cultures and societies is getting when you can see it by simply loading a webpage.
As I loaded my [tag]Google[/tag] homepage this morning I first saw this: Cleric’s 2nd wife sparks polygamy debate. The article discusses the reaction in Indonesia of a [tag]televangelist[/tag]-style [tag]Islamic[/tag] cleric (yes [...]

As in, two from out of the blue this morning (well, three, but I’m only going to talk about two of them here) to shake up whatever passes for reality here at MFL.
These two came from Rob [tag]Brezsny[/tag]’s FreeWill Astrology newsletter. the first was the opener:
“If you desire to know where your spiritual work lies, [...]

Something to share today:
First an article on Gregorian Chant that explains the title to this post.
Second, a link to Walsingham in Texas, a Live365 radio station that broadcasts these chants 24/7. Tune in while you’re reading for a relaxing, tuned-in, timeless moment of awareness…
[tags]music, timelessness, awareness, gregorian, wow![/tags]

… the computer we use to connect to the Internet died a few weeks ago. Hence, no blog posts, no email, no online community support, nothing.
We’re back now, and the series on my son’s hospitalization should conclude within a few posts.
Thanks for you patience. It’s great to be back!
Metaphors For Life’s website

What every person ought to know before they become hospitalized.

I’ve noticed that since I wrote the last installment I’ve felt like writing again, and about more than what happened to my son and my family this past summer. I’m getting ideas and concepts about projects I want to tackle that don’t involve my home. [...]

“Much of your pain is self-chosen.
It is the bitter potion by which the physician within you heals your sick self.
Therefore trust the physician, and drink his remedy in silence and tranquility:
For his hand, though heavy and hard, is guided by the tender hand of the Unseen,
And the cup he brings, though it burn your lips, [...]

Hospitals advocate the use of narcotics for pain management with an unconscious zeal, and very carefully refuse to look at the long-term consequences for patients and their families.
“We do not properly appreciate the absence of pain.”
That is a quote from a book I read a long time ago, when I wasn’t much older than my [...]