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Two Thousand Twenty-Four
I wanted to wish a Happy New Year to each of my dear readers. May this year be a healthy, prosperous one, and may it bring about the destruction of those who hate us and those like us. May we receive answers to some of the questions that trouble us. May we stop wasting time on things and thoughts and people who dissipate our energies and disrupt the harmony we crave. May we notice and laugh at the absurdities swarming around us in this life. May we abandon the idea that we’re going to solve that particular problem or set that certain thing right. Most of all, may we open…
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Decade Ending
My wife bought me a crucifix and a statue of the Holy Family a couple of years ago at an antique shoppe, both made of porcelain and painted with blue highlights. Lately, I have found myself gazing more frequently and more intensely at the statue than at the crucifix. The idea of a heavenly mother is a novel one for me, and yet it is sensible and appeals to me. Since boyhood, I accepted what I was taught as truth, which was that God is a sort of single dad. Like so much of the rest of it, I chafe under the idea nowadays, and I fill notebooks with my…