From the step forward, step back department:

New Hampshire Episcopalians elect a gay bishop, the Department of Justice shuts down its annual gay employees' event.

You know you're in trouble when your government is more concerned about who you're sleeping with than your church is. Not that, in my world, your church should tell you who you may and may not sleep with either, but the majority of folk seem to want that kind of instruction with their spirituality, which is their business, I suppose. The trouble I have comes when your church wants to start directing people outside its membership about where to put their genitalia... (Or when the right to assemble peaceably is dependent on whether or not you're the sort of group the government approves of. That's not much good either).

From the step forward, step back department:

New Hampshire Episcopalians elect a gay bishop, the Department of Justice shuts down its annual gay employees' event.

You know you're in trouble when your government is more concerned about who you're sleeping with than your church is. Not that, in my world, your church should tell you who you may and may not sleep with either, but the majority of folk seem to want that kind of instruction with their spirituality, which is their business, I suppose. The trouble I have comes when your church wants to start directing people outside its membership about where to put their genitalia... (Or when the right to assemble peaceably is dependent on whether or not you're the sort of group the government approves of. That's not much good either).

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Was going to do another in-box poetry today, but the only interesting line was "Autohexaploid". I think that would mean something that is like six more of itself, but I'm not sure. Maybe something that makes six sets of its genetic code without any outside assistance.
Pondering it all.

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Was going to do another in-box poetry today, but the only interesting line was "Autohexaploid". I think that would mean something that is like six more of itself, but I'm not sure. Maybe something that makes six sets of its genetic code without any outside assistance.
Pondering it all.

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"Jewish mystics have long taught that holy sparks of Light are lodged in all things. In order for the act of Creation to occur, shards of the divine fell into the world of matter. Thus, as Rabbi Isaac Luria described this cosmic situation, it is the task of each person to redeem and liberate the sacred that lies within every material form, animate and inanimate. From stones and plants to animals, ourselves, and one another - a heavenly Exile exists until the Light returns unbroken to its Source."

- Edward Hoffman (The Heavenly Ladder: Kabbalistic Techniques for Inner Growth)

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"Jewish mystics have long taught that holy sparks of Light are lodged in all things. In order for the act of Creation to occur, shards of the divine fell into the world of matter. Thus, as Rabbi Isaac Luria described this cosmic situation, it is the task of each person to redeem and liberate the sacred that lies within every material form, animate and inanimate. From stones and plants to animals, ourselves, and one another - a heavenly Exile exists until the Light returns unbroken to its Source."

- Edward Hoffman (The Heavenly Ladder: Kabbalistic Techniques for Inner Growth)