Month: March 2008
Agnostic Creed
Posted on March 9, 2008 in Agnosticism
Brian Kane has posted P.Z. Myer’s nicely worded Atheist Creed.
Still, same old problem that troubles all thinking along the theist/atheist rift: certainty.
My agnostic creed isn’t a creed at all, but just a simple statement of fact:
I don’t have the answers to ultimate questions and I can live without them.
[tags]Agnosticism, atheism, religion, spirituality[/tags]
Dream
Posted on March 8, 2008 in Dreams
I remember a dream of driving south on the Coast Highway, looking to my right and seeing a large, rocky island of cormorants, drenched by the ocean.
The White Blossoms
Posted on March 4, 2008 in Daily Life Neighborhood Prose Arcana
Tonight, beneath the white blossoms of a purple plum tree and an electric lamp which hummed away the silence, I stood. Not a very interesting story to tell, but the moment was thick with the immediate presence of the night and the white corners of the condos.
Coat Weather
Posted on March 3, 2008 in Neighborhood Santiago Fire
Rabbits have begun to appear in the coyote brush that fringes Portola Hills. I saw three on a short walk around Concourse Park in the fog yesterday. In the spring, they will breed more, and then the offspring will discover that the burnt-out district is quite free of predators. So this year will be a good year for rabbits, at least until the bobcats, the coyotes, and the hawks find places to hide or to perch.
It was foggy until this morning. The hills are bright green where the grass is coming back, a pale green where they were sprayed with a hydroseeding compound, and brown in the places where neither Nature nor Humankind made provision. People still come to gawk: on my Saturday afternoon walk in the park I saw a cluster of tourists led by a man who was pointing. The rabbits paid them no heed. I just hurried home, holding my coat close.
High winds made it coat weather even with the sun.
