For The Birds
"“What if we stopped busying ourselves by organizing nature to just exist with each other?” My comrade asked wistfully one morning. John Lennon’s fine song came to mind; “Let it be.”...
16
Sep
14
Sep
A Guaranteed Liveable Income Plan
"A Guaranteed Liveable Income plan would make it possible for more Canadians to get job training, education, participate more fully in their communities and have resources made available to them which would facilitate a more dignified life rather than one which is stigmatized."...
13
Sep
Following Your Moral Compass
"“Fine,” I replied, “be the most ethical atheist you can be.” I think he was trying to “get off the hook thinking only religious folks have to be ethical. Not so, morality and ethics apply to everyone."...
12
Sep
“But who do you say that I am?” –23rd Sunday in Ordinary Time.
"’ve read numerous pieces in recent years, written by women and men who are asking the question, can I remain in the church, in spite of all that has been exposed?"...
11
Sep
9/11 – 20th Anniversary
" . . . we have seen that the real enemy is not a Muslim jihadist with a paper-cutter, on an aircraft, but the world that we have crafted ourselves."...
10
Sep
Confessions of a Millennial, Gay Catholic: The CDF Dubium
:he message that needs to and must stick with us is simple: love one another. If we could manage to work toward fulfilling this commandment, then maybe, just maybe, we might have some hope of a better world."...
04
Sep
03
Sep
Talking With Francky
"When I’m sometimes automatically being judgmental, or nursing old resentments about past hurts, I think “that’s my ego, that’s the other standard.” "...
01
Sep
Not a ‘birder’
"(It was believed the pelican pierced its own breast to feed its young with its blood.)"...
31
Aug
The Summer of 2021
"This summer of 2021 has had its share of ups and downs., consolations and desolations, pains and hopes."...