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Life in the Spirit

LIFE IN THE SPIRIT

Most people in the world are familiar with fish.  We learn about fish and aquatic life in school and many of us eat fish as part of our diet.  Some people raise fish as a hobby.  Others actually fish, themselves, either on lakes, ponds or in rivers or in the ocean, as several of Jesus’ disciples did over two thousand years ago and even other communities two thousand years before that.  Probably all of us know that with the exception of three or four species...

Cancer Chronicles

CANCER CHRONICLES

If using a mobile phone, the landscape (i.e., horizontal) orientation of your phone provides the better experience. Welcome to my blog on bladder cancer. Looking back, I’m reminded of the title of a Grateful Dead album (“What a long strange trip it’s been”) which more or less describes my experience, now in its fifth month since I first learned I had bladder cancer. I wake up some mornings and wonder what rabbit hole I’ve fallen into? Yet, every cloud has...

Россия стоит перед новой угрозой

РОССИЯ СТАЛКИВАЕТСЯ С НОВОЙ УГРОЗОЙ

Россия стоит перед новой угрозой. Россия может оказаться на грани гражданской войны, поскольку Евгений Пригожин идет маршем на Ростов, российский город вблизи Украины, в котором проживает более 32 000 человек. [Пожалуйста, имейте в виду, что все эти новостные сообщения следует считать ненадежными, поскольку интенсивность этой истории растет с каждой минутой. Но я собрал их как можно лучше из газет, доступных в Интернете. Я не могу лично поручиться за все, что написано ниже”.] В конце пятницы западные СМИ сообщили о поисках...

Empty barrels make the most noise.

EMPTY BARRELS MAKE THE MOST NOISE

I grew up on a resort in the mountains, and we’d have a dozen barrel-sized trash cans filled with kitchen waste behind the dining hall building. There were always a few empty cans as well. We’d also be visited regularly by black bears in the middle of the night. When the bears tipped over the cans that were full, you would not be able to hear them because the contents of the can would muffle the sound. But when they...

МАТЬ РОССИЯ

Лидеры семи африканских стран призвали сегодня президента России Владимира Путина прекратить войну в Украине, ссылаясь на “большую нестабильность и вред для различных стран по всему миру”. Это происходит на фоне того, что президент Путин подтвердил начало размещения тактического ядерного оружия в Беларуси. Это не приближает мир к миру. Для большей части мира (включая Запад) нестабильность, о которой говорил президент ЮАР Сирил Рамафоса, исходит, я полагаю, от экономических санкций. Для Африки вред исходит от повсеместного голода. Сегодня я прочитал, что в...

REFLECTIONS

This post will be an ongoing commentary on the Russian invasion of Ukraine with future entries based on Open Source Intelligence (OSINT) as well as other relevant but hard to locate information, some of it first hand. Often an interesting story splashes on the front page of newspapers but then disappears soon after. In this post called Reflections, hope to track what happens to these stories. The Exclusion Zone April 1, 2022 (Updated April 4, 2022) The nuclear power station...

HARMONIE UND HEILUNG IN DER NATUR

Harmonie und heilung in der natur: In den letzten Jahren habe ich den Klimawandel mit wachsender Sorge beobachtet.  In meinem Alter werde ich wahrscheinlich nicht mehr lange genug leben, um die vorhergesagten schwerwiegenden ökologischen Folgen zu erleben, die wir unseren Kindern und Enkeln hinterlassen werden.  Aber ich bin dennoch beunruhigt, weil wir in unserer Blindheit und Gier unseren Mitmenschen und zahllosen anderen Arten, die den Planeten mit uns teilen, schweres Leid zugefügt haben.  Diese unschuldigen Lebewesen wurden aus Gründen der kommerziellen Ausbeutung oder...

Frog in boiling water

THE SLIPPERY SLOPE

One of the more overused terms in the U.S. today is “slippery slope.” It refers to a decision a person might make that has unintended consequences. And, while many consider the term to be fallacious, it is not necessarily so. Missing a day of school because you overslept does not mean you’ll eventually wind up in prison if you extrapolate the likely consequences. But a failing grade for academic dishonesty such as cheating may mean you won’t graduate if your...

ARE WE ALONE IN THE UNIVERSE?

On June 25, 2022 the Office of the Director of National Intelligence released the Preliminary Assessment: Unidentified Anomalous Phenomena.  It was a nine-page unclassified document, though there are suggestions in the press that some classified portions were not released.  That may not be a sinister cover-up if so, but rather a normal procedure to protect U.S. military capabilities and tactics. While the report did not reject the possibility of extraterrestrial life as the origin of these encounters, neither did it exclude extraterrestrial...

Metamorphosis

METAMORPHOSIS

At this time of the year in the northern U.S. and southern Canada, the monarch catepillar is starting to eat voraciously in preparation for the next stage of its life. You can easily find them on the leaves of milk weed, perhaps its favorite source of food. Presently, it will retreat into the darkess of a chrysalis, with which it enshrouds itself. When it emerges as a brilliant butterfly, we say that a metamorphosis has taken place. The apostle Paul...

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