Being Good In The Dark: Suffering With Cancer Like Good People

Theater structures emotion.  And around here have usually preferred our lives to resemble a musical comedy, with lots of absurdity and silliness.  It isn't that we don't take ourselves seriously.  It's that we know that seriousness isn't always in the long face or the serious talk. 

Really, it's in love.  And really good love knows how to laugh, when to weep.  Mostly how not to stare unendingly at itself and its needs.  In fact good comedy takes life very seriously.

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Taking Your Road

Updated on Saturday, April 7, 2012 at 7:50PM by Otter

“Thus far may you grow, and no more. Any idea you may engage in, but not the one at the center of the garden, the fundamental that holds the thing together.” [But truth] must be true, and it must stand up to the nibbling at the center of the garden. We all nibble at different paces, and find our true selves, and our experience of god, as best we can.

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