Chicken Feet — keith Goldstein
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Daily Archives: July 13, 2007
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- Douglas Adams
English humorist & science fiction novelist (1952 – 2001)
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See if you can read it to the end.
It is in the silence
I have long been intrigued with the encounter of Elijah and God at the mountain. It was not in the tumult of fire, wind or earthquake that God spoke but after all this in as the New Revised Standard Version puts it, “The voice of sheerest silence.” Here by the sea I have heard in silence between the waves the moments of silence that hint of God. Finding the sheer impression of the sacred is a neglected art.
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Elijah in the desert.
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The First Book of Kings tells of Elijah’s search for God and what happened when he reached Horeb, the mountain of God,
…(Elijah) came to a cave, and spent the night there. Then the word of the Lord came to him, saying, ‘Go out and stand on the mountain before the Lord, for the Lord is about to pass by.’
Now there was a great wind, so strong that it was splitting mountains and breaking rocks in pieces before the Lord, but the Lord was not in the wind; and after the wind an earthquake, but the Lord was not in the earthquake; and after the earthquake a fire, but the Lord was not in the fire; and after the fire a sound of sheer silence.
When Elijah heard it, he wrapped his face in his mantle and went out and stood at the entrance of the cave. (19:9, 11-13)
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The Monks of New Skete, an Orthodox Monastery in New York, are famous for raising beautifully trained German Shepherds.
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A Neo-surrealist take on Da Vinci’s Last Supper — The party appears to be late as the figure to the right at the table is checking his watch. It seems a sort of Waiting for Godot sort of post modern take on Eucharist.
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Planet Earth —close up of tired truck fender. Everything is a matter of perspective — far enough away it is a truck fender but close up it looks like a planet. Everything is connected!
Beyond Contradiction 