rivercrow

We live near a staging area for a local common grackle migration. I’m estimating that about a thousand birds, perhaps more, congregate in the trees to the south of our house a couple hours before sunset. Gorgeous loud squeaky birds. Once they’ve done chatting, they fly north, nearly silent except for the occasional flight calls.
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http://open-mind.org/
http://www.nacronline.com/dox/library/sp_distr.shtml
http://www.vandruff.com/grace_faith.html
Col 2:6 (KJV) As ye have therefore received Christ Jesus the Lord, so walk ye in him.
# Grace has been defined as getting what you don’t deserve, or more formally unmerited favor. Previously we looked at the unmerited part. But what is this favor? What do we get, specifically? For grace is not merely a […]

Last_Caress on INTPCentral Forum wonders:
I have a theory that antidepressants suppress right brain activity.
I consistently scored 50/50 with a slight bias either way when I was on them.
Now that I am off and my full range of emotions has returned, my right brain characteristics have become more pronounced once again.
Went to school for art, got […]

Newton’s First Law of Motion: The Law of Inertia
An object at rest tends to stay at rest,
and an object in motion tends to stay in motion
with the same speed and in the same direction
unless acted upon by an unbalanced force.
“We are our memory. We are this chimerical museum of shifting forms, this heap of broken […]

Someone on INTPCentral’s Forum called attention to this article and book. Interesting study….
http://www.physorg.com/news9756.html
“Every year, close to 1 million people around the world kill themselves. Florida State University Bright-Burton Professor of Psychology Thomas Joiner has spent much of his career trying to find out why.
“After all, lots of people are hopeless and depressed, many severely. Why […]

13 You are the salt of the earth; but if the salt loses its flavor, how shall it be seasoned? It is then good for nothing but to be thrown out and trampled underfoot by men.
14 You are the light of the world. A city that is set on a hill cannot be hidden.
15 Nor […]

In the divine light, a speck of dust
Joyously dances, without need or lust.
You too can choose to dance in light divine
Delight the stars and deep earthly mine.
http://www.rumionfire.com/shams/rumi051.htm
Shahriar Shahriari translator
Vancouver, Canada
April 12, 1998
http://www.the-vu.com/God_Heart_Dance.htm

I dreamt of a table covered in wooden boxes. Each box was a cubic foot and made of coarse-grained wood, with dove-tail joins and metal corners.
Beside each box was a matching wooden lid. Each box was open, but I could not see the contents of any box from my perspective. I needed to pick each […]