Just to call yourself non-religious (secular, humanist, skeptic or atheist) seems to threaten some people who think self-identifying as a […]
Tag Archive for ‘photography’
Freedom and Philadelphia
Images of Freedom, not all the typical ones, from Philadelphia.
Question of the Day
Maybe I’ll make this an ongoing series … I wonder: Since we hear so much from our Pious Preacher Politicians […]
Prayer-able
Found a visitor praying on our deck today. I stopped to pray with them. The prayer had no words … […]
Noticing the Unnoticed
In some ways I think most of my life has been about noticing things others don’t seem to see. Not […]
Beautiful Noise of Nature
“The Beautiful Noise of Nature (and Faith?)” I get the feeling sometimes we live on Bird Planet. The variety of […]
Eleven and a Half Steps to Enlightenment
“Eleven and a Half Steps to Enlightenment” Does that title catch your attention? Disclaimer: this essay will not provide the […]
Sacred Profanity
Do words like “sacred” and “holy” (or “profane”) have any meaning anymore? Did they ever? The Sacred, the Holy and […]
Resetting Our Compass
Time to re-set our compass “Something strange is happening.” So says a geophysicist at the University of Leeds in England. […]
Heaven, or West Virginia?
For ten days in June, the Rogue took us over 1800 miles through North Carolina, Tennessee, Virginia, West Virginia, Maryland, […]
John Muir’s Birthday
April 21, 1838. Naturalist-to-be John Muir was born in Dunbar, Scotland. I think it’s a day worthy of celebrating as […]
Cataloochee in B&W
One of our favorite (and closest) areas within Great Smoky Mountains National Park, Cataloochee Valley offers trails and trees, wilderness, […]
Friendly Freethinker 