Saturday, January 25, 2014

You Can Learn a Lot From a Mummy

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Imagine that you find a book written by an itinerant priest 500 years ago.  Most of the pages are missing and the ones that remain are wri...
Sunday, January 19, 2014

Linnunrata, Vikings and Tigers

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I love the Finnish myth of the creation of the world which starts with an exploding egg.  What I love even more is the cosmology that wa...
Saturday, January 11, 2014

Freely Poisoning the Elk River

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I was walking in the pouring rain this morning.  The temperature was hovering just around freezing.  The largest lake – once a vital w...
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Sunday, January 5, 2014

Beyond the Barricade in Tahrir Square

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  Driving north up Al Kasr Al Aini towards the barricade on the south side of Tahrir Square we quickly realized the great fortune of sel...
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Sunday, December 29, 2013

Kyrie Eleison… Down the Road that I Must Travel

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While its origins are not entirely clear, it is reasonable to assume that the Roman Catholic Litany of the Saints officially entered th...
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Sunday, December 22, 2013

Social Security: Soaring with Vultures

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So I was sitting at the table this morning, overlooking the ponds and the forest, when I was struck by the stark Roman insignia gr...
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Sunday, December 15, 2013

Not Worth Living

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In Plato’s Apology , he attributes to Socrates the frequently quoted maxim: “The life which is unexamined is not worth living.”  Adjacen...
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