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Drinking Snow Water From a Tin Cup
Can we pause for a second to appreciate how strange and amazing it is to be alive in a temporary body inhabiting a floating rock spinning through space in perfect celestial precision? Our worries and insecurities seem pretty insignificant compared to the mystery and miracle of it all.
~ Roz Brooks
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To quote Ricky Gervais, “God gave you free will so that you have the choice to either worship him or go to hell.” Every time I post the Gervais quote on an evangelical site, it gets a lot of likes and “amens.” To the best of my knowledge, and with more than 40 years of observing them up close and personal, irony is a baffling foreign concept (and thus satanic) to bible thumpers.
~ Wayne Sumstine
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Down valley a smoke haze
Three days heat, after five days rain
Pitch glows on the fir-cones
Across rocks and meadows
Swarms of new flies.
I cannot remember things I once read
A few friends, but they are in cities.
Drinking cold snow-water from a tin cup
Looking down for miles
