November 2004
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Haiku and the Double Helix| What I Am Thinking About
From New Perspectives Quarterly: The role of the scientific imagination in shaping the world to come is today uncertain as the great leaps forward . . . have revived old doubts and raised new fears about the human condition under the regime of reason. . . science is under attack both from religious extremists on… Continue reading
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Religion
From Whiskey River: "In the oldest religion, everything was alive, not supernaturally but naturally alive … For the whole life-effort of man was to get his life into contact with the elemental life of the cosmos, mountain-life, cloud-life, thunder-life, air-life, earth-life, sun-life. To come into immediate felt contact, and so to derive energy, power, and… Continue reading
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Carnival of the Cats #36 – A Kittie Feast
Joining us at the table today: Amanda sends Friday cat blogging Lisa sends Keeping Siofra Warm Zozo sends EnNui KaTz Jack sends You Could Learn A Lot From Boo Lesley sends Friday Cat Blogging (a Jane & Emma debut!) Sarah sends Minerva went for a spin…; more bebe blogging; ok, so maybe she’s just creepy… Continue reading
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Is a working father good for the child?
It’s a question society is too scared to ask: [adapted from an article by J. Murray-Smith] In an age in which everything can be bared, from marital intimacies in The Bride Stripped Bare to spiritual epiphanies (Madonna and the Kabbalah), to political and sexual proclivities, the only thing that is off the acceptable agenda for… Continue reading
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Cat Mustaches
Oh, the varied uses of cats. For those with chilly upper lips, there is the Cat Mustache (via Blogywood): click to go to site with larger photos Now, I adore my cats — Boo, the sweet retriever, and Spike, the affectionate bully — but, being Manx, they are not useful for this particular purpose, as… Continue reading
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