15 August 2008

Nature wild and beautiful

The storm took down 26 utility poles and 2 power stations. A direct lightning strike almost put one of the stations in overload. This was on Wednesday night. Late Thursday afternoon, there were still homes without power.
It was one of those Monsoons that deceives. It played coy well into the evening, staying back. It surrounded [...]

15 August 2008

No one word

One of the pitfalls in the Great Religion Debate is the idea that a single word can describe anyone. It doesn’t matter what word we’re talking about — “Catholic” is just as useless as “Atheist” is just as useless as “Muslim.” In laying claim to the word “atheist” as a descriptor for myself, I am [...]