The metaphors in faith

It's fascinating to me that one of the best explanations I've seen of scripture as metaphor comes from a book with a metaphor in its title. And it also occurs to me that perhaps the reason extreme conservatives see scripture completely differently than I do is that they cannot understand metaphor. In the secular world, [...]

Dear Helen

I know I'm full of useless one-line posts today, but I did make myself
laugh in the middle of devastation when I nearly typed “hurricane
Latrina” in another forum.
And Dear CNN: Thank you for making me feel less shitty about my profession.

Right now I wish I had credit

With gas prices being what they are, I feel a need to buy a bicycle.
I know that should not be prompted by gas prices, but honestly the
reason I don't have a bicycle is that I can't afford one.

Too long i've been doing the stompy stomp

Someone outside is beating a metal something against another metal something.
My reaction to this is to nod along.

stupid flickr

I'm trying to figure out why there's a flickr nav tab called:
Your contacts'
Alternatively, I'm going insane with “My contacts' WHAT?”
The hurricane bullshit again has me re-evaluating what I'm doing with my life, now that I'm out of the headspace funk that dragged me backward by about 8 years earlier this week.
Dean and I managed to [...]