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Its snowing again, and it has zoomed up to a sweltering 12 degrees, with prospects of even reach 18 F. The picture above gives the general impression. It’s a house just down the road from here. I awoke this morning to another 2 inches or so, and its not letting up at all. Looks like…

There are many covered bridges in Vermont, and the one in this picture is in Grafton where I am rapidly becoming one of God’s frozen people. But its always nice to remember the beautiful view when one is here in the summer and looking through the telescope of the covered bridge. But just to thaw…

Greeting to God’s Frozen People everywhere from Frostbite Falls (aka Grafton Vermont, see the pictures of the bandshell here and the house where I am staying taken two summer’s ago) where it is a toasty 1 F on the thermometer with windchill down to -16F. Grafton is a beautiful little town (3,000 or so depending…

Sometime the propaganda put out by a studio about a new film, amazingly proves to be accurate. Here is the synopsis from Universal Films of the riveting new docu-drama film Frost/Nixon “Synopsis: Oscar®-winning director Ron Howard brings to the screen writer Peter Morgan’s (The Queen, The Last King of Scotland) electrifying battle between Richard Nixon,…

I’m off to Vermont to write for a month and to work off some of the Christmas cheer and to play my 12 string and here’s a little ditty I wrote to help me out with my New Year’s Resolution (and no… the picture above is not quite me…..)BW3 LB’S It’s sweepin’ cross AmericaThe plague…

BLOOD VESSELS ‘In Principio erat Verbum’ Chalice, CupGrail GobletWaiting Wine Glass—Blood Vessels. Plate,PatinWafer, MorselBeckoning Bread Basket–Table Service. Mere morselsOr Bare Body?Uncommon CupOr Challenging Chalice? From SacrificeTo SacramentFrom Sign to SymbolFrom Servant to ServiceGrace Comes a Calling Blood ShedBlood TransfusionHis ExtinctionOur DistinctionBy Intinction. ‘You are what you Eat’ ————

It is sometimes difficult to bring an excellent play to the big screen, but John Patrick Stanley has successfully brought both his Pulitzer Prize winning writing skills and his Tony Award for this story to the big screen, with an Oscar worthy cast– Meryl Streep, Phillip Seymour Hoffman, and Amy Adams to name the principals.…

How do you measure a human heart?By beats and chambers four?By calculating capacity,Or do you look for more? Do you follow the EgyptiansPlacing hearts upon a scale?The ones that were the heaviestWere those beyond the pale. Or should we think like HebrewsWho saw within the heartThe locus of thought, feeling, willThe place where ‘souls’ start?…

And from the other end of the spectrum comes the story of a Baptist minister and his legal travails as he tries to inject God back into the public sphere. See what you think. BW3 http://www.nytimes.com/2009/01/04/us/04louisville.html?th&emc=th

Here is an interesting article from the London Times kindly sent to me by Jim Foster written by an atheist who thinks Christianity is good for Africa. You’ll be intrigued to see why. Here is the link…..see what you think. BW3 http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/comment/columnists/matthew_parris/article5400568.ece
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