Muhyiddin Ibn 'Arabi

"Although the Real is One, beliefs present Him in various guises. They take Him apart and put Him together, they give Him form and they fabricate Him. But in Himself, He does not change, and in Himself, He does not undergo transmutation. However, the organ of sight sees Him so. Hence location constricts Him, and fluctuation from entity to entity limits Him. Hence, none becomes bewildered by Him except the discerning, and no one understands this admonition except him who combines the assertion of similarity with the declaration of incomparability." 

~Tr. William C. Chittick, Imaginal Worlds, 163. 

Birds of Play: Peace in That

Jesus In America

Only he don’t come down

        from His Tree

        Him just hang there

                               —Lawrence Ferlinghetti

 

The pharisaical hearts

 

and pig-headed minds

 

of perfervid bringers

 

of theological bull shit

 

are beating us down

 

white assed bigots

 

thump love redacted bibles

 

on imperious pulpits

 

inside walled in god boxes

 

while a nation hangs captive

 

with a sorrowing old Jesus

 

nailed to a bad assed place

 

and a bad assed time.

 

~ H. C. Palmer

 

Reading

 

The Bridge

 

Daniel Barenboim plays Beethoven Sonata No. 8 Op. 13 (Pathetique)

Ramazan

 

Shock and Awe

 We observe the 20th anniversary of the Empire's criminal attack upon the people of Iraq.

Public Education

 

Candy-Rama

 

833 Western Ave.

                                         Photo credit: Bill Rockwell.

Coker Arboretum

 

The Left Should Defend Classical Education

                                                 By Liza Featherstone.

Liberty Avenue

 

                                        Check out Chris Litherland Photography.
 

Greenfield Ave.

 

Spring Garden

 

Forbes Avenue

 

St. Nicholas Church, North Side

                                                     Demolished 2013.

Duquesne Incline

 

I will arise and go now...

 

The Plain Sense of Things