Genesis, the book of beginnings, speaks of the moments where Adam examined and named the animals in God's new order. I'm certain that this process took place over a protracted period of time. I wonder where the porpoise fell into the line up?
Could Adam, in this state of innocence, converse with the porpoise? Or being the only being created in the Imago Dei, did thougthful, willful communication solely belong to the Godhead and the "living soouls" of Adam and later, Eve?
“Treating 65-year-olds differently because of stereotypes or falsehoods would be ageist; treating them differently because they have already had more life-years is not.”
“An obvious example is not guaranteeing health services to patients with dementia,”
Almighty God, the fountain of all wisdom, you know our necessities before we ask and our ignorance in asking: Have compassion on our weakness, and mercifully give us those things which for our unworthiness we dare not, and for our blindness we cannot ask; through the worthiness of your Son Jesus Christ our Lord, who lives and reigns with you and the Holy Spirit, one God, now and for ever. Amen.
Sarah Palin was the brightest light and the freshest breeze to blow into our collective minds during the bitter 8 year campaign to unseat, obfuscate or befuddle the apparent winner of the battle of the hanging chad. She was a powerful woman, comfortable in her power and her own skin. I believe that it was this, which caused her critics to become apoplectic. The looney side of the left, not simply happy to see her and Mr. McCain defeated in 2008, they howled for her blood and opened an unheard of barrage at her entire family.
She's far from over.
July has washed ashore in Suburbia Majora, with her heat humidity and bugs. Unlike a crisp New England summer, there's a certain melancholy that accompanies the hazy, thick skies of a Virginia summer. There're days of heat, punctuated by the shaking of the heavens as leaden anvils, their tops daring to defy heaven, release their fury on the earth below.
In the next several evenings, the skies will be lit with the display of illegal fireworks that'll entertain many while taunting the County Stormtroopers. Me, I've lost my nerve to light off the cool stuff, sticking with the OTC fireworks that seem to be available in any of Suburbia Majora's many shopping centers. So far, Barry hasn't placed patriotic celebrations in his sights so for now, we can still stuff our pie holes with Nathan's franks and light the night.
