A Few Words About Religion
I was not raised Catholic. My family attended and had been lectured to in Presbytarian churches and for a short time, Unitarian, but I converted while in college once I started going to the old St. George's with my dorm roommate. It fit me like a glove and I felt at home there despite my ignorance of the exotic rituals and prayers everyone else knew by heart. When I say that I am Catholic I say it with the caveat that I am an American Catholic , which is to say I do not agree with everything that comes out of the Vatican. Sorry. I have no issue with homosexuality. Love is love, and people are lucky and blessed to find it wherever they find it. I believe that priests should be allowed to marry and that women should be accorded more prominent positions within the church structure. There's more, but let's just leave it that I realize the Pope is not doing a little jig everytime I open my mouth and declare I'm Catholic. For the totter to that teeter though, I've been t...
This one's hard to let go of. The day Redford passes I'll die a little inside.
ReplyDeleteThanks for your tribute. I just posted my tribute at my other blog, Clutterquake.
How time
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and leaves the essence.
I loved him so. I will miss him
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When I was 14 in Boonville, OK in 1967, "Cool Hand Luke" was my favorite movie and I was a girl!!!
ReplyDeleteHere's to trying not to do the expected and instead to do the transcendent with humor and grace.
A great one gone. But such a legacy!
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