Kingfishers, Dragonflies, and Stones

As kingfishers catch fire, dragonflies dráw fláme; / As tumbled over rim in roundy wells / Stones ring; like each tucked string tells, each hung bell's / Bow swung finds tongue to fling out broad its name; / Each mortal thing does one thing and the same: / Deals out that being indoors each one dwells; / Selves -- goes itself; myself it speaks and spells, / Crying Whát I do is me: for that I came.// Í say móre: the just man justices/ [Gerard Manley Hopkins]

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In "Four Cultures of the West," John O'Malley, SJ, showed us how to read the open book of our own personal experience and look at what we find there. This is what I find about family and friends, academics and humanism, religion and the rule of law.

Sunday, August 24, 2008

Blog Confusion

This blog, begun in 2005, was in tatters. For the past few months, it has been going through what the Church should be going through. A restoration, an instauration, a renewal, because so much of it is devoted to religion and the rule of law. From early 2002 and before blogging, pieces went to ARCC,CORPUS, Just Good Company, and a couple of other places. Most stuff is saved on the hard drive.

In our times and in our cultures, we the people of God want to reform religion itself, simply because we created it to honor and worship God who created us. God wants a friendship with us. We want a friendship with God. That is what religion is.

There was an older blog site and two current ones, soon to be one:

1. The first one with titles that changed with moods, ran from March, 2005 to May, 2007, out of Pine Point, Maine. It is not available on-line, but has been saved to the hard drive.

2. It was resumed as "Kingfisher, Dragonflies and Stones" when we moved back to Colorado late last year. Computer problems led to Blogspot's advice to stop posting in it and start up a new one. It is still available for reading but not for posting at: http://epaulkelly.blogspot.com/

3. The current blog, same title, was begun on our return home to New Hampshire in June, after having being away for eleven years. We had lived and worked and raised our family for almost 40 years here in New Hampshire, until we went West in 1997 and retired to Maine in 2001. The website address is: http://epkblog.blogspot.com/

In between blogging, I am transferring material from the hard drive and old blogs to this one. When that task is done, those old blogs will be removed from Blogspot, leaving this one as the sole blog, with stuff from 2002 to date.

Pardon please the confusion, but it was sort of an end run arund Blogspot's rules, because the old computer crashed, probably from being mixed up by our moving west, then east, then west again and now home. Our home was in Maine and then in Colorado, but my work was for a company at Lake Tahoe, California, with offices in Dover, NH, and San Diego, as well. The work was done from the home office in Colorado, with frequent trips to the other offices. That gave us the opportunity to drive through most of the western states, criss-cross the country in 18 transcontinental journeys in a RAV4, with two Dachshunds as constant traveling companions. A great eleven years discovering America, particularly the West. Good to be home.

Paul
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