I’ve been thinking about the Prayer of St. Francis recently and thought I’d share the Sarah McLachlan version with you. Play song from Lala.com* We like this prayer here at MoF: John recommended it for a secular meditation and I as a secular prayer for strength. At that last link, I removed what I saw [...]

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the preceding image is licensed for reuse under Creative Commons by El_Enigma I feel like I’m cheating when I draw on old content, but the unfathomable tragedy in Haiti has me thinking about past events that challenged my faith in a compassionate, omnipotent god. My faith took some time to die, but one comparatively tiny [...]

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I hope you’ll indulge me for a moment of self-reflection. It’s been an eventful past three months. On 09/09/09, I was excommunicated, and I still haven’t had a chance to reflect properly on the event and its impact, partly because at the time it (unexpectedly to me) became more of a struggle for Jana than [...]

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Just got home. The event was full to the brim and spilling down the sides with courtesy. Surprisingly, it felt good to greet a few old friends (I’ve known some of the men for nearly 20 years). It will take me some time to process this, but I feel pretty damn fine at the moment. [...]

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Ten Reasons to go vegetarian: 1. To boost your anti-corporate activist cred. 2. To protest in the nude for PETA someday. 3. You’re a cheapass mofo. 4. To pick up on bepierced and tattooed babes/dudes at the vegan grill. 5. To help meatpackers survive through unemployment. 6. What Would Buddha Do? 7. To save the [...]

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Lying in bed in the wee hours this morning, I got to thinking about the murder of Dr. Tiller (deeply saddening, for all kinds of reasons) and about different views people have on an issue that is generally presented as a two-sided issue. I am pleased to see that most pro-life organizations are condemning his [...]

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Seems only appropriate to post a song about Boston, since I just returned from there..

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Jana and I just had a long talk about money and the future. We’ve got two children in public schools, Jana’s a grad student at UCI and I basically an employee of the State of California, so the Governator’s promised “Financial Armageddon” could make things rough in the coming months. Certainly it’s introduced (or at [...]

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Would anyone be up for a virtual toast on Friday night? Here’s my thought: send or twitpic a picture of you with a *drink in hand, preferably taken on the same evening, by Friday May 8th at 11pm my time (Pacific) and I’ll put them all together in a blog post and a flickr photoset [...]

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