Well, Ratzinger was making a LOT of very conservative decrees or other pronouncements, these were I think driving folks away from church faster than they were leaving before. He was causing problems and alienating more and more folks. I suspect he was given a 'choice ( Read more... )

It seems some cosmic joke that when we reach an age where we start to get the world figured out that we also realize we have less time to exercise that knowledge. We spend so much time building our knowledge and experience that it feels wrong we have so little time to exercise, enjoy and share it.

I know I am a bit odd in how I see the world and other people. There are a very few types of folks I value in my life, my guess most folks are like this but they don't think it though like this ( Read more... )

On winter nights with slow fall snow ( Read more... )

I just had to un-friend my brother on Facebook. He posted a thing from Carla Shepheard that was the last bit. I wrote this reply ( Read more... )

The Northern lights are out tonight, a dim green glow of hazy bright ( Read more... )

Today we can do something that was a bit more expensive when we were younger. We can record our own stories, the life or family history. My Mom is the last person that remembers a good deal of my family history. My Father rarely spoke about his side of the family. So many pictures that I don't have names to go with ( Read more... )

Beryl is a family of gems that have a hardness of 7.5-8 making them good for all jewelry applications, rings if the stone is protected. When step cut, or cut with large facets it can really make for lively and flashy stones. It comes in a few natural colors and may of the colors have also been grown synthetically ( Read more... )

How to buy a Diamond - As with most things the basic rule applies in the end "is it worth it to you." But there are other things that can help ( Read more... )

Statement: Marriage is a Holy Sacrament and / or a Civil recognition under the law ( Read more... )