What people miss when they talk about village life is usually not village life.
They miss the picture of it. The smell of bread. The stove ticking in winter. Chickens scratching in the dust. A man coming home with dirt on his hands and knowing exactly what he has done that day. A woman pulling preserves from a cellar shelf. A table with real food on it, not something extruded, … Read the rest
By Eric Le Roy
The universe was once a black hole so small that not even a microscope would have detected it. If my feeble grasp of science is right on this one, then it makes it all the more amazing when that cacophonous “Who Let the Dogs Out? moment occurred. All hell broke loose, literally and metaphorically. Night and nothingness made way for light and somethingness.
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There are people who leave religion because they hate it, and people who leave because they loved something in it and could no longer pretend. I understand the second group better. Not because they are smarter, but because they are usually gentler. They are not trying to win arguments. They are trying to stop lying to themselves.
Most believers I have met are not hungry for control. They are tired, … Read the rest
