So, i was waiting for the bus a couple weeks ago, and this old guy is waiting there also.  He's got a navy baseball cap, and he's pushing a little wire cart full of groceries, and his skin is brown and weathered and covered with purple sores and scabs, and he's all in white, and he's smoking a cigar, if that don't beat all!  and i think, "what do ( Read more... )

God:  is bigger than anything.  God is everything.  words like "bigger" and "everything" and "God" are useless when talking about God, because to posit a thing is to acknowledge its negation.  to say "bigger" is to acknowledge that somethings are less big.  God is both of those.  God is so everything that there's really no point in talking about ( Read more... )

the physical therapist, who was a great person, gave me exercises and electrocuted me and asked me if things hurt an prodded me, in reverse order.  the tingling, she says, is not a direct side effect of the hole in my back, but rather connects higher up in the neck.  When i heard a crunch, so many years ago, she asked, where did i hear it, neck or ( Read more... )