I've always loved this poem.

Listen to the MUSTN’TS, child,     
Listen to the DON'TS     
Listen to the SHOULDN’TS The IMPOSSIBLES, the WON'TS     
Listen to the NEVER HAVES
Then listen close to me-     
Anything can happen, child, 
ANYTHING can be

--Shel Silverstein

The 14 Billion Years It Took

Do you remember, at the start, how small everything was? Smaller than a point. Like everything was somewhere between a thought, almost, and a reality, almost. And then I looked at you and thought

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And then everything that would ever happen, happened.


--I wrote this for you.
8.16.10

"morning is not optional,
but waking is bravery."
--marty mcconnell

I have spent my entire morning reading religious texts, starting with the Bible. It is disgustingly violence- and sex-filled, which I knew prior to reading but not to the full extent. For comparison's sake, I read large portions of the Quran and the Book of Mormon, and they are all really quite similar in that aspect. Really disgusting disgusting books.

The morals that we extract for children as a guideline for life are fine, but it is unfair to call what we teach as the "Bible" or the "Quran" a true summary of the text itself. We extract the morals that our society currently accepts and call it ancient law, where in reality the ancient law is long outdated and ignored.

But it is too late to change because God apparently no longer speaks to us anymore.
It is time to write our own versions.

--My wonderfully brilliant friend Julia