The Sublime Roundabout

My love's eyes shine With starry-eyed mirth Her footsteps, sublime, Seem not to touch the earth Angels have their wings Shedding their grace Voices celestial sing Filling the immensity of space Yet my love, angelic Does not soar so high She leaves worlds idyllic And deigns to stay so nigh She thinks she is unworthy Of adulation plain Yet to me, she seems unworldly Descended from a heavenly plane And in her glance I feel Renewed by strength unmeasured Her touch my heart doth heal By her smile I am so pleasured Forever thus were two hearts one And thus are you, my glorious Sun

One day we will all wake up and realize we are not many races, but one. I've recently had some discussions with someone who is close to me. This is someone who is intelligent, talented, driven, and professional. Yet this person is also quite racist. It's interesting, because this person belongs to what might be called a minority race anyway. This person's assumptions and generalizations based on other's ethnic or racial profiles are nonetheless pronounced and disturbing. And I'm not quite sure what to do about it. I grew up in a home where race was not discussed. It was a non-issue. People whose biological or genetic make up made them look different from me was of no concern whatsoever. One may be aware of such differences, but these differences and this awareness was something very mild, like noticing the difference in the shapes of leaves, or the way different clouds form shapes against the blue sky. One was not superior or inferior. There were no value judg...

My dear brothers, You're missing it. Your life is passing you by, like a ship in the night, and YOU ARE MISSING IT. I am no expert on women. Shucks, I can't even understand the things my soon-to-be ten year old daughter thinks/does. But there are a few things I've come to know as (almost) universally true. And at the risk of sounding like I know what I'm talking about, I will share some of them with you: 1. Women are the most sacred trust that God has given to the world. Full stop. If you want a real, constant, and impressive manifestation of God's love of and for His sons, one need look no further than the women who grace our lives. Women are the repository for any/every culture. They are the grace, the beauty, the civilizing influence in our world. They are the sweet mothers of our children. They have a greater influence than any teacher, they are more healing than any nurse, and they are more lovely than a summer's day full of light. There are excepti...

Intransigent. That was the word that kept running through Rick's mind: intransigent. He'd lived with his daughter half of his life. Granted, the care and education she'd received was most often from others - well paid individuals who knew what they were doing and how to be quiet about it. He'd been busy, too. While his beautiful wife was the titular head and spiritual guide of the team, Rick handled the day to day operations in such a way that it was really him who was behind most of what went on. He also functioned as the filter for the information that did reach his wife such that she was only given the information she needed to make the appropriate decisions. This had been their arrangement from since they were first married, he about 8 years older than she. So why, then, was his daughter so truculent? Why was she unable to simply fall in line? Why couldn't he manipulate her the way he'd so easily done her mother? The situation was untenable for a man...

Her lower lip pouts But there is no denying Sparkles in her eye

I'm old. This year is my 20 year high school reunion. I'm not going. I don't want to see any of those punks. Well, maybe one or two. But the whole facebook/social media revolution has made the idea of a reunion kind of moot, in my mind. I have already connected with most of the folks I would want to see, anyway. So it's a bit anti-climactic. I'm also too busy to go, anyway. Yep. I'm that booked. So, one of the things that has bothered me about it is the post touting the opportunity to advertise at the reunion. The exact text follows (names/personal info changed for the sake of anonymity): Sponsorship/Advertising Opportunity!!! Due to overwhelming interest of some very successful classmates, we are opening up a few select sponsorship/advertising opportunities to everyone for a limited time. This is a chance for you to give back to the greatest high school class ever and to showcase your success since high school. The proceeds will help lower the overall cos...