Time Life Magazine, that Groovy Lady on the Cover?

[teachmevp]

I got to meet a groovy heart, and that women walked that word, without saying a word;

must have been groovy times in them days.

[Pax]

that groovy girl, for girl she was at that time,

turned me on to Handel's Messiah

and Alastair Sim's climatic grin ...

She was everything a young girl should know and feel and be.

on our only date ever,

I wore Chuck Taylor All-Stars

and a new suit.

I pinned a corsage on her pretty dress.

but a way east function was not a date

a dinner concert

pressed down

shakin' together

running over

we were,

so we were

in a castle in Rye

with maroon tablecloths

ice water

and waitresses glad for a strange crowd

she was a star...

someone's star

not my future star

not Victor's private star

God damn it

"I think somebody better put out the big light,

cause I can't stand to see you this way.

Alison, I know this world is killing you.

Oh, Alison, my aim is true ..."

[excathedra]

sniffles (((((((((((((((((((( pax )))))))))))))))))))

[waysider]

"I think somebody better put out the big light,

cause I can't stand to see you this way.

Alison, I know this world is killing you.

Oh, Alison, my aim is true ..."

[Pax]

we were so

so we were

we so were

we lived a year of magical thinking

Daddy owned the cattle on a thousand hills

eternal life had begun early

our hearts were filled with fire

then....

bad religion stokes the sin of small men...

men in wolves' clothing

Merde

Merde

Merde I tell you

they were all up to their souls in Merde

and scriptural non-reality cemented them there*

the wheels on the bus stopped going round and round

we got off and that has made all the difference

some stayed on, they are exactly where we left them... to the meter

Give up fundamentalism... it sucks as religion

(it's pretty good as justification for sin... slavery, hatred, violence, war, phobia, capitalism etc. )

Trust legitimate scholarship

religion doesn't have to be awful

even if the road with Jesus is dusty, dusty

better to be on the dusty roads with Jesus

than on the motor coach with merde.

behold...

eternal life is right there at your right hand

just like death

and Daddy's cattle

and our hearts are filled with fire.

*"The heart cannot easily accept what the mind rejects." Marcus Borg

[Broken Arrow]

Ain't nuttin' wrong with dusty! :)

[teachmevp]

It was so cool how Kristen would over look my dustiness; their

is that poem, foot prints in the sand; I saw foot prints in the dust.

[Pax]

Ain't nuttin' wrong with dusty! :)

right on, Broken Arrow,

... I'll be running that through my cranial computer,

and using it in public speaking

for the sake of those who that might hear me...

and who have been hurt.

In the name of one who walked beside the Galilean Sea

and gathered common folk like ourselves to His side,

that we all might follow Him

down life's dusty roads;

the name of Jesus of Nazareth,

Amen.

[excathedra]

Trust legitimate scholarship

religion doesn't have to be awful

i don't know about that

i do agree regarding merde (i had to look it up)

and i'd walk any road with jesus of nazareth

[Pax]

i don't know about that

i do agree regarding merde (i had to look it up)

and i'd walk any road with jesus of nazareth

Excathedra,

I'd commend to anyone and everyone "The World's Religions" by Huston Smith

-the very best one volume work on world religions.

Reading the chapters on Hinduism and Buddhism were terribly moving experiences for me.

For Christianity, Marcus Borg writes beautifully and is on the cutting edge of progressive Xnty.

[Broken Arrow]

Nevermind. I got the answer to my question.

Edited August 28, 2010 by Broken Arrow