I can still hear Karen Armstrong’s mature and direct voice on the radio. She’s a British religious scholar, a former nun. She talked about her new book, The Case for God.
She aligned my understanding of Christianity in a snap. Here are some excerpts:
– There’s Mythos (abstract, myths) and there’s Logos (reason, science). We need both […]
On a busy road to work, there stands a church with a skull and bone pirate flag on its roof.
I’ve passed by it thinking “it’s San Francisco, anything goes”, until the other day, I took a closer look.
The church was actually 3 connected buildings; on one end is a Japanese Christian church and the other, […]
It’s been exam / paper week at the local college. I’ve been taking two courses - sociology and psychology- to massage my brain back into shape. But by golly I’d forgotten how stressful an ordeal classes were. It’s all done online, which I find to be more difficult, but it’s convenient.
Yesterday I visited the family […]
A magnetic young sales man with a half open shirt brought passerby’s toward his stall.
“It’ll make a nice gift, see, no second-hand smoke”.
It was sold for $120; this electronic cigarette vaporizes nicotine liquid, so there’s no tabacco smoke involved.
“You refill your cartridge with e liquid, sold separately for about $2 a shot. They come […]
On a daily walk with the little boy,
we came across a giant bubble.
A man held two poles, one in each hand.
A dangling rope connected two ends of the poles.
The man dipped the rope in soap.
He asked the wind to blow.
The wind blew softly.
Softer than a baby’s temple.
Big bubbles came from the man’s magic wands.
The biggest […]
One can never predict the next Japanese fad. This time of year it’s Trader Joe’s bags, an American supermarket eco-bag that’s sold here (at the supermarket) for $2.99.
Apparently the girls have gone bonkers over these in Japan. It’s sold there for 1500 yen ($15).A few friends are going back to Japan soon, they’ve already made […]
Fourth day now.
My hand is weak when holding the pen; in the wee hours I linger in that dreamy haze and illustrate the scenes that came to pass.
Interesting to see a recurring pattern, for me it’s been climbing tall buildings in the dark. My friends Rie and Mami made an entrance twice in a row, […]
Paul’s band Hello Monster is recording an EP now, 4 catchy poppy rock songs. The other day they had a photo shoot. I joined with my own camera and took some behind-the-scene shots.
Bands talk about what their image should be and things, and so the Hellomons decided to go with button up shirts and ties. […]
A handful of people gathered for a meeting at my CASA girl’s 14th home, it was her aunty, cousin, social worker, a wraparound social worker, her assistant and I (CASA). This time her change of home was positive, there was a lot of optimism in the air.
The meeting in the living room was held to discuss the well-being […]
“Why do we drink cow milk and not human milk?” Paul asked. I agreed, drinking human milk would be more healthy I would think.
“What if” he continued, “instead of drinking milk that come from hormone injected holstein factories, have milking mothers give milk for pay? Imagine at stores, you see packages like Idaho mother’s milk […]
