tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-55717894242071738702024-03-12T18:24:29.845-07:00Grrr!Peterhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16268915400753087872noreply@blogger.comBlogger42125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5571789424207173870.post-10053377722898809872015-05-28T21:47:00.001-07:002015-05-28T21:47:27.880-07:00<img src='https://scontent.cdninstagram.com/hphotos-xaf1/t51.2885-15/e15/11379046_446779728815660_1731118672_n.jpg' style='max-width:586px;' /><br />
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Peterhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16268915400753087872noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5571789424207173870.post-15606573485363870182015-04-07T17:53:00.001-07:002015-04-07T17:53:14.906-07:00After the rain....<div xmlns='http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml'><img style='max-width:586px;' src='https://scontent.cdninstagram.com/hphotos-xfa1/t51.2885-15/e15/11138054_1589198278012819_589456315_n.jpg'/><br/><br /><div>via Instagram <a href='http://ift.tt/1c5X5Ac'>http://ift.tt/1c5X5Ac</a> </div><br /></div>Peterhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16268915400753087872noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5571789424207173870.post-82005781859233683872015-03-24T13:43:00.001-07:002015-03-24T13:43:14.522-07:00<div xmlns='http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml'><img style='max-width:586px;' src='https://scontent.cdninstagram.com/hphotos-xpa1/t51.2885-15/e15/928786_1387346121586374_68063293_n.jpg'/><br/><br /><div>via Instagram <a href='http://ift.tt/1CnoCaa'>http://ift.tt/1CnoCaa</a> </div><br 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src='http://distilleryimage0.s3.amazonaws.com/ac9117d4c65e11e1985822000a1d011d_7.jpg'/><br/><br /><div>via Instagram <a href='http://instagr.am/p/Mr82y0E-0o/'>http://instagr.am/p/Mr82y0E-0o/</a> </div><br /><br /> </div><br /> Peterhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16268915400753087872noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5571789424207173870.post-80855291939121714582012-05-30T19:56:00.001-07:002012-05-30T19:56:51.805-07:00<br /> <div xmlns='http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml'><br /> <img style='max-width:586px;' src='http://distilleryimage9.instagram.com/c4fd7654aacb11e18cf91231380fd29b_7.jpg'/><br/><br /><div>via Instagram <a href='http://instagr.am/p/LRmM5eE-7N/'>http://instagr.am/p/LRmM5eE-7N/</a> </div><br /><br /> </div><br /> Peterhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16268915400753087872noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5571789424207173870.post-69672761237483017982012-05-17T10:43:00.000-07:002012-05-17T10:46:09.462-07:00"The Idealogical Turing Test"<a href="https://www.facebook.com/tuffpup">Greg</a> recently sent me a link to a great post on <a href="http://www.facebook.com/l.php?u=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.patheos.com%2Fblogs%2Funequallyyoked%2F2012%2F05%2Fsign-up-to-play-in-the-ideological-turing-test.html%3FLLM%3Dgreg%2540grrr.com&h=2AQHoF9ur">Patheos</a>, called the "Idealogical Turing Test."<br />
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I was intrigued, so I entered. One of the questions is:<br />
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"<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; font-weight: bold;">Write a brief (~50 word) bio of yourself and your religious affiliation. These get published at the end and help me build up a range of interesting participants</span>"<br />
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Well ...I started writing and.... a few more than 50 words spilled out, so I thought I'd share them here!<br />
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"I was raised Roman Catholic and attended 12 years of Catholic School. Grades 1-8 at a small <a href="http://www.sjcparish.org/">diocesan elementary school </a>where I was always getting into trouble with the nuns. <a href="http://www.archmereacademy.com/">High School</a> was at a private, independent Catholic prep school run by an order of very progressive and (then) left-leaning brothers. I attended college at the Quaker-heritage <a href="http://www.upenn.edu/">University of Pennsylvania</a>, where I came out as a gay man.<br />
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I spent many years angry with and estranged from the Catholic Church and considered myself agnostic. I was raised to think most other faiths were "shams" or pale imitations. Eventually I began reading more about Wicca, Quaker, Buddhism, Mormon and other faiths and began to become more open.<br />
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In my 30's, feeling a spiritual void, I began to explore <a href="http://starrking.org/">Unitarian</a>, Congregationalist, <a href="http://www.mccsf.org/">MCC</a> and <a href="http://www.saintgregorys.org/">progressive Episcopal</a> churches. I found some touch points with each - but none felt like "home."<br />
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Almost at 40, I moved from the city to a rural, small ranch in the high desert near Joshua Tree with my partner. The beauty and rhythm of the natural world were ever-present. I began to explore earth-based ritual, religions and Wicca. They seemed "natural" and right there.<br />
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After a series of personal tragedies, addiction, etc in my life I became angry with God, the Universe etc and moved to L.A. At MCC L.A. at a low point near my "bottom" I was re-baptized and became open to The Spirit again. My life changed.<br />
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I eventually found a safe, comfortable home with St Thomas the Apostle, Episcopal Church in Hollywood. It's very old-school, high church, but feels familiar and comfortable.<br />
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At this point in my life my theology is a hybrid of good bits from all I've sampled. However I feel they are all poor metaphors attempting to describe the ultimate indescribable mysteries of incarnation, the nature of God and the Spirit of the Universe. I find the traditional Christian metaphors I was raised with to be most comfortable - but I still consider them useful metaphors. My actual theology today more resembles Quakerism + Sagan's Contact + Battlestar Galactica than St. Paul, but I am now comfortable with celebrating old-fashioned ritual amidst personal ambiguity."Peterhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16268915400753087872noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5571789424207173870.post-18294684102529611182012-05-11T10:42:00.001-07:002012-05-11T10:42:04.013-07:00Buttscape<br /> <div xmlns='http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml'><br /> <img style='max-width:586px;' src='http://distilleryimage3.instagram.com/8744f0769b8f11e1be6a12313820455d_7.jpg'/><br/><br /><div>via Instagram <a href='http://instagr.am/p/KfrH79E-wj/'>http://instagr.am/p/KfrH79E-wj/</a> </div><br /><br /> </div><br /> Peterhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16268915400753087872noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5571789424207173870.post-87350691299643600572011-05-10T20:42:00.000-07:002011-05-10T20:42:02.735-07:00<a href="http://www.medicalbillingandcoding.org/medical-costs-1"><img src="http://images.medicalbillingandcoding.org.s3.amazonaws.com/Medical-Costs-1.jpg" alt="Why Your Stitches Cost $1,500 - Part One" width="500" border="0" /></a><br />Via: <a href="http://www.medicalbillingandcoding.org">Medical Billing And Coding</a>Peterhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16268915400753087872noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5571789424207173870.post-32869728092370929132010-04-27T12:23:00.000-07:002010-04-27T12:23:15.832-07:00A Subway Through Bellevue, WA?!I'm very surprised they're seriously considering a tunnel through Bellevue. It looks to me like there is already a terriffic off-street right od way available, and there does not seem to be the density there to support the cost of a tunnel.<br /><br /><a href="http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/html/localnews/2011668714_lightrail22m.html">Bellevue%20council%27s%20offer%20keeps%20light%2Drail%20tunnel%20alive</a>Peterhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16268915400753087872noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5571789424207173870.post-5599617899971526992010-04-27T12:00:00.000-07:002010-04-27T12:00:55.459-07:00What Los Angeles Metro could look like in 10 years if May Villaraigosa's 30/10 Plan Moves Foreward.<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://www.thetransportpolitic.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/03/30-10-Los-Angeles-Plan-Revised.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="http://www.thetransportpolitic.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/03/30-10-Los-Angeles-Plan-Revised.jpg" /></a></div><a href="http://www.thetransportpolitic.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/03/30-10-Los-Angeles-Plan-Revised.jpg">http://www.thetransportpolitic.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/03/30-10-Los-Angeles-Plan-Revised.jpg</a><br />
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Funding is already in-place for all of these projects, but the money flows-in from Measure R funds over the next 30 years. The Mayor's idea is to ask Washington to fund a loan against the future Measure R income, to allow all of this work to be completed within 10 years.<br />
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It's a brilliant idea. The LA Metro region certainly needs this much relief from traffic congestion as soon as possible. With all this in-place LA could quickly become almost as non car-dependent as New York. There would be a major rail or BRT stop within a 1 mile walk of a huge percentage of the region's population.Peterhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16268915400753087872noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5571789424207173870.post-49565415518785624122010-02-17T09:03:00.000-08:002010-02-17T09:03:09.042-08:00A Full Life in the Emptiest of Places <sup class="versenum" id="bg_passage-7997">1-3</sup> "Shout! A full-throated shout! Hold nothing back—a trumpet-blast shout!<br />
Tell my people what's wrong with their lives, <br />
face my family Jacob with their sins!<br />
They're busy, busy, busy at worship, <br />
and love studying all about me.<br />
To all appearances they're a nation of right-living people— <br />
law-abiding, God-honoring.<br />
They ask me, 'What's the right thing to do?' <br />
and love having me on their side.<br />
But they also complain, <br />
'Why do we fast and you don't look our way? <br />
Why do we humble ourselves and you don't even notice?' <br \="" /><br />
<sup class="versenum" id="bg_passage-7998">3-5</sup>"Well, here's why: <br />
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"The bottom line on your 'fast days' is profit. <br />
You drive your employees much too hard.<br />
You fast, but at the same time you bicker and fight. <br />
You fast, but you swing a mean fist.<br />
The kind of fasting you do <br />
won't get your prayers off the ground.<br />
Do you think this is the kind of fast day I'm after: <br />
a day to show off humility?<br />
To put on a pious long face <br />
and parade around solemnly in black?<br />
Do you call that fasting, <br />
a fast day that I, God, would like? <br />
<sup class="versenum" id="bg_passage-7999">6-9</sup>"This is the kind of fast day I'm after: <br />
to break the chains of injustice, <br />
get rid of exploitation in the workplace, <br />
free the oppressed, <br />
cancel debts.<br />
What I'm interested in seeing you do is: <br />
sharing your food with the hungry, <br />
inviting the homeless poor into your homes, <br />
putting clothes on the shivering ill-clad, <br />
being available to your own families.<br />
Do this and the lights will turn on, <br />
and your lives will turn around at once.<br />
Your righteousness will pave your way. <br />
The God of glory will secure your passage.<br />
Then when you pray, God will answer. <br />
You'll call out for help and I'll say, 'Here I am.' <sup class="versenum" id="bg_passage-8000">9-12</sup>"If you get rid of unfair practices, <br />
quit blaming victims, <br />
quit gossiping about other people's sins,<br />
If you are generous with the hungry <br />
and start giving yourselves to the down-and-out,<br />
Your lives will begin to glow in the darkness, <br />
your shadowed lives will be bathed in sunlight.<br />
I will always show you where to go. <br />
I'll give you a full life in the emptiest of places— <br />
firm muscles, strong bones.<br />
You'll be like a well-watered garden, <br />
a gurgling spring that never runs dry.<br />
You'll use the old rubble of past lives to build anew, <br />
rebuild the foundations from out of your past.<br />
You'll be known as those who can fix anything, <br />
restore old ruins, rebuild and renovate, <br />
make the community livable again. (<a href="http://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Isaiah+58%3A1-12&version=MSG&src=embed">Isaiah 58:1-12</a>, <a href="http://www.biblegateway.com/versions/Message-MSG-Bible/?src=embed">The Message</a>)Peterhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16268915400753087872noreply@blogger.com0