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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; line-height: normal;">Found this poem in the waiting area at the Episcopal Diocese office here in Arizona. Somehow it relates to this topic.</p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; line-height: normal;"><br></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height:
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height:
normal">Isabel Galbraith</p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height:
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. There are risks, however, in maintaining illusions that are too out of
whack.<span style="mso-spacerun:yes"> </span>– Timothy D, Wilson</p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height:
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height:
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height:
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height:
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melancholy—</p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height:
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height:
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height:
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height:
normal">Within your songs, you troubadour, </p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height:
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height:
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height:
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height:
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height:
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height:
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height:
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height:
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height:
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height:
normal"><span style="mso-tab-count:1"> </span>Then were shut up
in their towers?</p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height:
normal">I don’t want to be unprepared</p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height:
normal"><span style="mso-tab-count:1"> </span>For life’s cold
thundershowers.</p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height:
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height:
normal">So don’t puff me up to astronaut, </p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height:
normal">Or Guinevere of Camelot, </p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height:
normal">Or world’s best boss, Sir Michael Scott—</p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height:
normal"><span style="mso-tab-count:1"> </span>The let-down’s
suicidal</p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height:
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height:
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Idol.</p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height:
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height:
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height:
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height:
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dark,</p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height:
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height:
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is stark:</p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height:
normal"> </p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height:
normal">Dumb jokes my friends indulge me in, </p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height:
normal">New wrinkles in my oily skin, </p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height:
normal">The <i style="mso-bidi-font-style:normal">joie de vivre</i> that I trade
in</p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height:
normal"><span style="mso-tab-count:1"> </span>For grouchiness at
home,</p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height:
normal">Lost time that I could have spent</p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height:
normal"><span style="mso-tab-count:1"> </span>Working on a poem,
</p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height:
normal"> </p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height:
normal">Dumb poems about the slightest things,</p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height:
normal">A pen that’s lost and long-lost flings –</p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height:
normal">They hurt, but what really stings</p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height:
normal"><span style="mso-tab-count:1"> </span>Is when I add it
up:</p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height:
normal">No roommates and no wedding ring,</p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height:
normal"><span style="mso-tab-count:1"> </span>No money, book, or
cup. . . . </p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height:
normal"> </p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height:
normal">I’m definitely glad you’re there, </p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height:
normal">Protecting me from this despair,</p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height:
normal">The bruises my ego would otherwise wear,</p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height:
normal"><span style="mso-tab-count:1"> </span>Believing it
deserved them.</p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height:
normal">You help me function, help me dare, </p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height:
normal"><span style="mso-tab-count:1"> </span>Steel nerves when
life unnerves them.</p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height:
normal"> </p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height:
normal">The trouble is, we must – like flowers –</p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height:
normal">Receive the right amount of showers</p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height:
normal">And sun to pull new blooms from bowers.</p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height:
normal"><span style="mso-tab-count:1"> </span>To help us be us</p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height:
normal">The inner eye’s more sweet than sour:<span style="mso-spacerun:yes">
</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height:
normal">Ourselves as loved ones see us</p>
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AICP Planners: 14.5 CM for all ToP courses<br><br>--- On <b>Sun, 5/20/12, John Cock <i><jpc2025@triad.rr.com></i></b> wrote:<br><blockquote style="border-left: 2px solid rgb(16, 16, 255); margin-left: 5px; padding-left: 5px;"><br>From: John Cock <jpc2025@triad.rr.com><br>Subject: Re: [Dialogue] The Grand Design<br>To: "'Colleague Dialogue'" <dialogue@lists.wedgeblade.net><br>Date: Sunday, May 20, 2012, 1:32 PM<br><br><div class="plainMail">Rather delicious trialog, Paul. Thanks. I was delighted to hear Dawkins say<br>he was an agnostic, not an atheist, to the laughter of many. Whatever he is,<br>he has been thinking it all through seriously. Williams was definitive but<br>open. The moderator, a philosopher, was less open.<br><br>I watched and listened as I watched my Braves beat the Rays. That too was<br>delicious as our first closer came in in the 8th inning, Braves ahead 2-0,<br>with two Rays outs, then proceeded to hit the next two
batters, loading the<br>bases, followed by the next batter hitting a blistering grounder that hit a<br>Rays runners and ended the 8th inning--and of course our closer finished off<br>the 9th inning as always, remarkably, leaving the Braves in first place. <br><br>Do inform us again, Paul, when they next debate, when they hopefully get to<br>the heart of the matter of the evolution of the Earth community to deal with<br>its future, and not just depend on Darwinian evolution and Godly<br>intervention.<br><br>John<br><br>-----Original Message-----<br>From: <a ymailto="mailto:dialogue-bounces@lists.wedgeblade.net" href="/mc/compose?to=dialogue-bounces@lists.wedgeblade.net">dialogue-bounces@lists.wedgeblade.net</a><br>[mailto:<a ymailto="mailto:dialogue-bounces@lists.wedgeblade.net" href="/mc/compose?to=dialogue-bounces@lists.wedgeblade.net">dialogue-bounces@lists.wedgeblade.net</a>] On Behalf Of<br><a ymailto="mailto:PSchrijnen@aol.com"
href="/mc/compose?to=PSchrijnen@aol.com">PSchrijnen@aol.com</a><br>Sent: Sunday, May 20, 2012 2:41 PM<br>To: <a ymailto="mailto:dialogue@lists.wedgeblade.net" href="/mc/compose?to=dialogue@lists.wedgeblade.net">dialogue@lists.wedgeblade.net</a><br>Subject: Re: [Dialogue] The Grand Design<br><br>I enjoyed the debate between Richard Dawkins and Rowan Williams on some of<br>these questions:<br><a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HfQk4NfW7g0" target="_blank">http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HfQk4NfW7g0</a><br> <br>Maybe it adds another dimension...?<br> <br>Paul<br> <br> <br> <br> <br>In a message dated 20/05/2012 19:18:12 GMT Daylight Time, <a ymailto="mailto:LAURELCG@aol.com" href="/mc/compose?to=LAURELCG@aol.com">LAURELCG@aol.com</a><br>writes:<br><br> <br> Jack,<br> <br> The Ground of Being that WAS before the big bang, and the<br>Evolutionary Impulse (Becoming) that
started the big bang, is what we've<br>called God. (This I've gleaned from Andrew Cohen.) I agree it is all<br>intelligent, but our tiny brains cannot begin to understand it. IT is the<br>All, in the phrases, "All that is, is good." and "I am One with All That<br>Is." Science is about grappling to understand it. Good scientists are<br>usually in awe of what they're discovering. What else would keep someone<br>looking in a microscope all day every day for years, or whatever laborious<br>process is required in their discipline? Scientists like Bryan Swimme and<br>men of faith like Thomas Berry sometimes collaborate to come up with<br>inspired works, like The Universe Story. This is all just my humble opinion,<br>as is the belief that the church, the cutting edge today, is the<br>evolutionary spirituality movement. Jean Houston is a recognized leader of<br>it and almost invariably ends her internet sessions with "These are the<br>times, we are the
people."<br> <br> From the great central valley of California, the center of the<br>Universe,<br> Jann <br> <br> In a message dated 5/20/2012 10:57:34 A.M. Pacific Daylight Time,<br><a ymailto="mailto:icabombay@igc.org" href="/mc/compose?to=icabombay@igc.org">icabombay@igc.org</a> writes:<br><br> As to the "Grand Design", it is the contention of some that<br>the creative process, that which underlies all, is inherently intelligent<br>and that intelligence can be understood.<br><br><br><br> _______________________________________________<br> Dialogue mailing list<br> <a ymailto="mailto:Dialogue@lists.wedgeblade.net" href="/mc/compose?to=Dialogue@lists.wedgeblade.net">Dialogue@lists.wedgeblade.net</a><br> <a
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