http://blog.metacentricities.com The intersection of vertical lines through the center of buoyancy of a floating body when it is at equilibrium... A collection of centers... Where religion, politics, science, technology, the environment and Michelle's brain and life meet. Tue, 26 Aug 2008 02:04:24 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en I'm taking a little break from filling boxes and taking down pictures and wrapping delicate things in newspaper to watch the DNC convention via streaming video (since I don't have a TV.) In three days, a truck is going to come, and take all of my stuff away, to go ... http://blog.metacentricities.com/2008/08/25/three-days-and-counting/ Real Live Preacher is a blog by a real Baptist minister. I've been reading it pretty consistently since I discovered it quite a number of years ago (pre-seminary).  He even used to have a chat room I would visit on occasion. That's where I met Rev. Sean, a UU Minister ... http://blog.metacentricities.com/2008/08/17/real-live-preacher-takes-on-hell/ On August 28th, a truck will come and take all of my stuff away, to go to California. It seems unreal, somehow, that it will happen quite so soon. But the date is approaching at a rapid pace. I'm in my standard "moving is chaos" challenging place. I get restless, have ... http://blog.metacentricities.com/2008/08/13/two-weeks-and-counting/ In a month or so (August 31st to be exact) I have to be out of our house, because we found a renter for September 1 (actually, one of my present housemates is going to take over, and get more housemates - and he already found a bunch.) I'm quite ... http://blog.metacentricities.com/2008/07/29/leave-taking/ Ruth and I are in Cleveland, OH - taking a break from her two-week long residency teaching poetry at Ashland University's MFA writing program. I joined her for the week, and have been doing a bit of work, and a good bit of writing. I'm sitting at a cafe, namely Arabica's ... http://blog.metacentricities.com/2008/07/19/cleveland-oh/ The brou-ha-ha around Jesse Jackson's comments about Obama, and how he would like to excise a part of Obama's anatomy has been, for me, a very interesting study in the politics race. (When you watch the video, have a look at Jesse Jackson's right hand, and his face, as he ... http://blog.metacentricities.com/2008/07/13/the-politics-of-race/ This is the Wordle this blog made: It's kinda cool. Check out the tool. http://blog.metacentricities.com/2008/07/04/my-wordl/ The song by Sophie Hawkins, called "California Here I Come" is playing right now. Not quite by coincidence, it came to mind as I thought of writing this post, so I put it on. But it is one of my favorite songs, no matter where I'm headed. Short story: I'm moving ... http://blog.metacentricities.com/2008/06/21/changes-again/ If you've read this blog for any length of time, you probably have picked up that the classic Christian theological concept of the trinity: Father, Son (who was an embodiment of the Father, and died, and was resurrected, etc.) and Holy Spirit is a construct of God that I find ... http://blog.metacentricities.com/2008/06/01/theology-of-the-trinity/ Well, since it seems I can't figure out exactly what to say on this blog, and I am happily neck deep in science fiction writing, I have a new blog, over on LiveJournal. It's only going to be about science fiction writing, and it's on LJ because there is a ... http://blog.metacentricities.com/2008/05/29/ack-another-blog/