We gather together in waving wild fields—
babooming, fattening, old Father Big Bang;
balooning, exploding new Mother Presence;
twinning quarks sing duets; Phoebe and Nick dance,
following, not following, borrowed patterns
under this fathomless blue sky—we begin
Author: dust
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Words like birds flit through,
settle in, and fall out of
space—matters of time.
Roy Herndon Smith: Mourning Serendip: Part I–Mourning Serendip: Chapter 1– Mourning
For me, love of religion was first love
of Ceylon (now Sri Lanka). I moved there
when I was nine, and lived there for two years
with my mother and diplomat father.
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Roy Herndon Smith: Mourning Serendip: Prelude
This post introduces a book I am writing, Mourning Serendip. I will be posing chapters of this book as I am writing it.
Below is an excerpt:
this book is about
religion, which means
it’s about what is
going down here, now
between you and me
which means “about” is
misleading, a lie
we are never “out”
of religion as
existence coming
together to form
itself as a whole
through us, in us, as
us, as not us, as
Marlene Vine, artist: statement
With this post, I introduce the work of the artist Marlene Vine. I have known Marlene for a number of years and greatly admire her paintings and works on paper. She constructs worlds of color, form, and feeling I get lost in. I will be posting her paintings with links to her website regularly. Roy Herndon Smith
Hierarchical religion and authoritarianism
Roy Herndon Smith re: A Confession of Faith in a Time of Crisis http://reclaimingjesus.org/ While I am very glad to read this confession as an attempt to counter the identification of "Christianity" with oppressive sectarian authoritarian absolutism--one might call it "Chistianicism"--it also articulates why I no longer consider myself to be a "Christian." The confession begins and…
March 8, 2018
Mary’s home today.
When she walks from room to room,
her slippers rustle
