The moon of exploding trees . . .

It's Sol's day . . .a cold start to a warmish day to TulseyTown. Southerlies bring afternoon cloud cover and overnight rain. The clouds will cover the last full moon of December tonight. Fear not, the “Cold” moon will be peeking between clouds tomorrow.

There comes a time when humanity is called to shift to a new level of consciousness, to reach a higher moral ground. A time when we have to shed our fear and give hope to each other. – Wangari Maathai

Sunday Sermon

We've tried to turn “God” into a thing with a face, when the word is a stand-in word for everything—Reality, truth, and the very shape of our universe. . .Without an interior journey of [an[ inner experience, much of what we call religion is largely childhood conditioning...atheists, agnostics, and many former Christians rightly react against this because such religion [remaining immature], childish and often fear-based, and so they argue against a caricature of faith. I would not believe in that god myself! – Fr. Richard Rohr, Meditations, 12.8.24

… the shepherds tending their flocks by night in Judea who were summoned by the angel to go to Bethlehem to see the wondrous thing did not go to find jolly people around a Christmas tree with nice gifts and a turkey dinner with a fine wine and rice pudding. – Garrison Keillor, The small holiday of a happy man, in his Column on 12.6.24.