Tag Archives: Book of Job

Actually, I kinda like clouds…

By Mel | Published: Wednesday, 20 January 2010
Clouds are actually really beautiful, when I'm not feeling grey. A little about the aha! experience of 1984, when I permanently came out of my former self-hatred.
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Helping Haiti (& telling Pat Robertson to STFU)

By Mel | Published: Wednesday, 13 January 2010
How can we help the people of Haiti in the aftermath of yesterday's devastating earthquake? By sending them assistance -- not by blaming them, as Christianist lackwit Pat Robertson so predictably does.
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Job 42.13

By Mel | Published: Saturday, 9 January 2010
A poem based upon a verse in the Book of Job, with an account by a Kansas farmer who saw the inside of a tornado in 1928.
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Buddha in the coffee shop

By Mel | Published: Saturday, 2 January 2010
My Side Street Saturday included an encounter with a handcarved Vietnamese Buddha of white-grey marble, which its owner hopes to sell as a fundraiser for Veterans for Peace. A little about Job, integrity, cold, & low atmospheric pressure, too.
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Sermon (a poem)

By Mel | Published: Sunday, 17 May 2009
It’s Sunday, a day of sermons. Tales have it that Rev. Jerry Prevo will be delivering one of his predictable diatribes against homosexuality from his pulpit at the Anchorage Baptist Temple (broadcast live at 11:00 AM on KCFT-TV — cable channel 19, broadcast channel 35). In counterpoint, this week’s sermon at 2:00 PM at MCC [...]
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