Tag Archives: Voice from the Whirlwind

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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