Here's some of what I read today online ....
There's a post at The Stone, the philosophy blog of The New York Times - Reclaiming the Imagination - about the way imagining work and its value. I spend a lot of time imagining :) but it's not just frivolous - what would Ignatius' Spiritual Exercises be without it? :)
Salvation by Lynn Ungar
By what are you saved? And how?
Saved like a bit of string,
tucked away in a drawer?
Saved like a child rushed from
a burning building, already
singed and coughing smoke?
Or are you salvaged
like a car part -- the one good door
when the rest is wrecked?
Do you believe me when I say
you are neither salvaged nor saved,
but salved, anointed by gentle hands
where you are most tender?
Haven't you seen
the way snow curls down
like a fresh sheet, how it
covers everything,
makes everything
beautiful, without exception?
James Carroll has another post in the Boston Globe on his series about the history of the problems in the Middle East. In this segment he brings up Christian Restorationism, the idea that the return of Jews to the Holy Land is a pre-requisite for the return of Jesus the Messiah, and the final redemption of the world.
Archaeologists may have proven the the Iliad and the Odyssey are based on fact ... Homer sweet home... Archaeologists find 'Odysseus's island palace'
- Ulysses and the Sirens by JW Waterhouse
