When the power of words and ritual come together in the best way it can strike fire in human hearts.

St Francis of Assisi


                        PATRON SAINT  OF ANIMALS AND THE ENVIRONMENT

Pope Francis makes an Easter plea for peace


                          "LET THOSE DESERT PLACES IN OUR HEARTS BLOOM"

Sunday, March 24, 2013

success

What is success? To appreciate nature's beauty. To know even one life has breathed easier because you have lived. This is to have succeeded.

                     -Ralph Waldo Emerson (1820-1882)

SiLas Be~~~~~~his take on faith.

I'm not a "man of  faith" but there are rare instances where I find it to be useful. When you see a fork in the road of your future, one positive and one negative and you have no control over the direction life will take you, but instead of fretting about it, you have " faith" that things will turn out alright. In the best sense of the secular definition of the word I feel it's functional on occasions such as this.
Faith as a religious tool to ignore reality however is quite toxic

Thursday, March 21, 2013

Morning Dove on the porch at sunset


                                      The Animal Collective concert was cancelled. Si was disappointed!

Si's Eye


         "The Leather Jackets"          episode of "The Twilight Zone"

Saturday, March 16, 2013

Discharge

We are picking SiLas up at 6:00. He is going to finish his IV drugs at home so he can attend
an  Animal Collective concert tomorrow night at the Orpheum Theatre