Advent 2025

The Love of Jesus is endless . Their Love for me is endless . Jesus is Love. Jesus is Life. So, must my Life be  endless ? Life's self-Love is endless. Villanelle: What All Words Mean February 2018 Can I write a villanelle about my Love (Love's name not discreet I should reveal)? That might be kind of hard.—What rhymes with Love ? Through years of scribbled valentines I strove and agonized, and now I’ve placed the stele to scrive a villanelle about my Love. Alas, my Love, and dost thou me reprove (your doughty fisherqueer with open creel) to pose this queery deep—What rhymes with Love? But diligent as Psyche's ants I'll prove and into your affections softy steal by singing a villanelle about my Love. Then we’ll give thanks unto the gods above, who in our dalliance make themselves real and help us know the words that rhyme with Love. And what an ever-tasted nectar trove, when we had lingered at this endless meal! I could write my villanelle about my Love when I realized...

How can I manage to give my gifts? A ngel-- the T emperance card in the Tarot deck. One foot in water, one on land. Suggested by the 3 of Cups inverted or not inverted.  Are there problems with my love? Well, after all the constraints suffered by the poor bound woman on the 7 of Swords ,  I shouldn't be surprised that I can't figure out how to give it. But I do receive the gift of love from my family and friends. So, let me be quiet and look within--better be the Priestess than the Magician. I'll keep working on my gifts because I love doing it. And, sure, I'll print books and give them to people.  Soon maybe!

O magnum mysterium, et admirabile sacramentum, ut animalia viderent Dominum natum, iacentem in praesepio! O beata virgo, cuius viscera meruerunt portare Beautiful Egret. Alleluia! O great mystery and admirable sacrament that the animals should see the Lord born, lying in a manger! O blessed virgin, whose bowels deserved to bear the Lord Christ. Alleluia!

I declare ! I declare you wifey and wifey! said the Dr. Rev. Laura Potter. and it was so: The Demon Lizard Patriarchy was smashed! LOVE EXISTS... by Maya Angelou I'm grateful for being here, for being able to think, for being able to see, for being able to taste, For appreciating Love-- for knowing that it exists in a world so rife with vulgarity, with brutality and violence, and yet Love exists. I'm grateful to know that it exists.

My love is deep. I'm in deep shit. Adam fell into a deep sleep. That was when God removed his rib  to create our beloved Mother Eve. Queer Walking in a garden green, earth deep beneath my feet. Is this garden wild or tame? Everyone knows who bore the blame— ‘twas our beloved Mother Eve, wandering in the Garden green. How could Master Adam refuse?—that dweeb!— just wild enough, but mostly tame as a mule, same as that later Abraham creep who stabbed a wild lamb in a green thicket. The blood ran clean, but our human destiny skipped a beat at the fatal choice of wild or tame. We need not speak the awful Name, but Yhwh was the one at fault. Let us walk this garden green! The Wilderness shall not be tame!

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I think today's Advent word should be Robe , not Robes . Wait till I put on my robe. It'll be my blue bathrobe of terry cloth, of course. Oh yes! Oh yes! Robe of white ?  I guess that would be my body before I put on my bathrobe. If my body were really white, that is!

 Old English: cl ǣnsen . Old English Root: cl ǣne - clean , pure , unmixed . Leviticus 14:4: Then shall the priest command to take for him that is to be cleansed two birds alive and clean, and cedar wood, and scarlet, and hyssop. Mark 1:42: And as soon as he had spoken, immediately the leprosy departed from him, and he was cleansed. In MAGA America, clean means white, and MAGA is cleansing the country by deporting non-white members. But there are no real white people. Brain-Eating Amoebas in Texas More bad stuff from south of the border— brain-eating amoebas in Texas. Are they just part of the natural order, like poisonous rattlesnakes and spiders, residing somewhere in the hierarchy of Linnaeus— a ways east of Eden’s border? The brain-eating amoebas live in the Latin quarter— just more devil-spawn to tease us. We’re the kings of the natural order, anointed stewards of this former garden, so we must rid our fields of weeds— unspeciated—from south of the border. God told us the gr...

King's Highway Isaiah 35:8: And an highway shall be there, and a way, and it shall be called The Way of Holiness; . . .it shall be for those: the wayfaring men, though fools, shall not err therein. There is the highway And the homemade loving kind, And the highway's mine. And us ramblers are getting the traveling done. Your fathers built with stones That stand and shine. Heaven's where you find it, and you can't Take too much with you. But, Daddy, don't you listen: It's just the highway talkin'. Townes Van Zandt When the time gets right, I'm gonna pick you up And take you far way From trouble, my Love Under a big ol' sky Out in a field of green There's gotta be something Left for us to believe  Oh, I await the day Good fortune comes our way And we ride down the Kings Highway-ay-ay. Tom Petty All things that are alive Are brothers in the soil And in the sky. And I believe it with my blood, If not my eyes. I don't know why we can't Be ...

Today's Advent poem is easy. I was looking up recompense in an online Bible concordance, and I ran across a reference to the Antichrist AI Overview: "Recompense" in relation to the Antichrist in Christian theology refers to the ultimate divine judgment and repayment, where God will justly punish the Antichrist and his followers for their evil, while also rewarding [Huh, lost it and had to search again. Apparently, AI makes a new Overview for each identical search.) the righteous, as described in biblical prophesy, especially in books like Daniel, Romans, and Revelation, indicating a final settling of accounts. The Antichrist is Das Turd, of course.  But Jesus will soon return! Jesus is not an avenger; the settling of accounts happens as Karma. Jesus is Karma.  They will always return.

Well, it's abundantly   clear! Well, what is ( abundantly clear, that is)? Here comes Santa Clause, Here comes Santa Clause Right down Santa Clause Lane. Here doesn't care if we're rich or poor, He'll be here just the same! Ho ho, the mistletoe hung where you can see, In Holiday abundance ! God, I'm sick of these jingles, as I wait for the Vermont Country Store person to come on and help me with my order. It's abundantly clear I'm sick of waiting! Ha! but now here comes Amy on the line and helps me order a Portuguese flannel nightshirt for my wife-- Snow Cardinal ! Those cardinals are abundantly red on that snowy-white flannel. Something else is abundantly clear as well (though it makes me sick to mention it)-- After what happened yesterday, it's even more  abundantly clear than ever that Das Turd gives permission to all and any who side with Archie against Meathead.

He felt he was betrayed, his honor was betrayed, and his human dignity  was betrayed. Paul Robeson, Introduction to Othello's final speech.

Oh garbage dump, Oh garbage dump. Why are you called a garbage dump? Oh garbage dump, Oh garbage dump. Why are you called a garbage dump? Charles Manson. And if thy hand offend thee, cut it off; it is better for thee to enter into life maimed than having two hands to go into hell, into the fire that shall never be quenched.  Mark 9:43. Unquenchable fires of Gehenna. Gehinnom,Valley of Hinnom southwest of Jerusalem, where a garbage dump burned perpetually because constantly fed with cadavers and other stinky trash. Now you can't use the word garbage  ( ashpah ) without evoking the  unquenchable fires of hell. If someone is garbage  they may be arrested and deported back to the shithole   countries from which they immigrated-- dumped into the fire. Das Turd knows how to activate such Biblical ideas in our minds.  I'm afraid the real hell-fire is the  unquenchable  hatred of the Israelis and Americans for their neighbors.

And chiefly Thou, O Spirit, that dost prefer Before all Temples th' upright heart and pure. Instruct me, for Thou know'st; Thou from the first Wast present, and with mighty wings outspread Dove-like sat'st brooding on the vast Abyss And mad'st it pregnant. Milton, Paradise Lost. AI Overview: A brooding hen goes into "mother mode," stopping egg-laying to sit on eggs (or even just a nest) for about 21 days to incubate them until they hatch. God, then, is a brooding Hen, sitting on the vast Abyss, making it pregnant  with life. The Abyss, with its eggy brood , is God Themselves. A word for bringing forth live young is viper . Vipers are vivus (living) parere (bringing forth). So, to call the Republicans a brood of vipers is a vile insult to snakes.

282 instances of written in the online King's Bible Concordance. The first refer to God's commandments written on the tablets handed off to Moses. To say that something was  written  was to say that it must be believed because God said it. Here's a typical instance from Nehemiah : On that day they read in the book of Moses in the audience of the people; and therein was found written, that the Ammonites and the Moabites should not come into the congregation of God forever. Neh 13:1. The Old Testament was written from the point of view of people--the Israelites--who believed themselves to be surrounded by enemies from which only their jealous vengeful God could save them. The Ammonites and Moabites were semitic peoples who lived in regions of modern Jordan and worshipped gods linked with Molech--baby-burning fiery furnace. Similarly, anything  written  today to be read and spoken in The News is believed, even if it's a lie. The Ammonites and Moabites burned babies; ...

My whole heart is in my writing. I need encouragement to share it, but not to do it. Maybe I lack the courage to publish it, but I won't get cardiac arrest if no one besides me ever reads it.

AI Overvew: Equity equals the value of an entity's assets after all liabilities are subtracted; the amount that would remain for beneficiaries after the entity ceases to exist. Equity Manifesto: This is equity: just and fair inclusion into a society in which all can participate, prosper, and reach their full potential. Unlocking the promise of the nation by unleashing the promise in us all (policylink.org). Sounds like the Declaration of Independence, right? All are endowed by their creator with the inalienable right to life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness. Taking another tack, we may say that equity equals the salvability of a human soul after death. Equity is salvation . Equity is Life--the urge to realize oneself in fair and just relation to all other life. Karma? Sounds like Yoga , right?  Namaste , why don't we! Our white supremacist Republican regime denies equity to all, granting it only to white men, whoever the hell they are. White supremacy hates us lib...

Had to check back to see whether today's Advent word is Counsel or Council . Wise counsel or Council of nations . The House of Representatives is a council . It's Counsel , to tell the truth. But nobody ever gave me any decent advice--at least any I ever followed. And I never had to stand before the court. (Just as I can never get Capital and Capitol straight. Capital city, Capital letter, and Das Kapital.  B ut Capitol building-- like the Minnesota State Capitol where the anti-MAGA protests happened, with its awesome dome.) Evidently  council  is a deliberative body, while  counsel  is what that body decides. Then the Pharisees went out, and held a council against him, how they might destroy him. Matt 12:13 And the Pharisees went forth, and straightway took counsel with the Herodians against him, how they might destroy him. Mark 3:8 (Both passages perhaps borrowed from the lost Book of Q.) And straightway in the morning the chief priests held a consultatio...

So, we heed the warning, or heed the call. We heed the call to warn. AI Overview: The Proto-Indo-European root word h ē d meant cover or protect. In the later Germanic languages the meaning of heed changed to mark , observe, or pay attention . On Wednesday evenings at 4:00 this winter, we are called to march back and forth across the Lake-Marshall bridge in St. Paul,  carrying signs imploring rush-hour drivers to heed the warning signs of a fascist authoritarian regime: MANIPULATE HISTORY IGNORE DUE PROCESS ATTACK EDUCATION MILITARY USED ON CIVILIANS ANTI-DIVERSITY -SCIENCE -EDUCATION FIREHOSE OF FALSEHOOD CENSURE AND FIRE CRITICS PARTY LOYALTY ABOVE ALL ELSE Black hoods cover our heads, but our faces are unmasked. We march spaced apart, trying to carry the signs so that the drivers can easily read them. We want the readers to mark, pay attention, and to understand that we are all in danger and must be ready to cover and protect each other. We must lovingly  heed one anoth...

Yonder come day. Look at the sky! How these last days seem to fly! Just a few more days we'll have to cry. There'll be much better days by and by. Judgment Day? I think it's a lie! Hot summer days. Let's get high! I see a new day in your eye. God's birth day is nigh!

Gratus (pleasing, thankful), plus facere (to make).  To Gratify is to please or make thankful. AI Overview: To "gratify my blank" means to satisfy a desire or need, with "blank" being whatever you want to indulge--hunger, curiosity, ego, need for praise, or even just myself. So, I gratify myself by learning a song by tall, skinny, red-haired Steve Phelps from a nearly fifty-year-old recording. Steve was my best early grad school friend, and in 1978 we started a punk rock band called 7Hz.  (7Hz is frequency of sound that makes your internal organs rub against each other and causes internal bleeding.) Steve didn't play guitar in the band, but taught me the rhythm guitar parts of the songs he wrote-- including:       S hock of Recognition We're sitting up here in the thirty-fourth row Waiting for the show to start. Goosebumps all over our bodies. Icicles in our hearts. An icicle's the perfect weapon-- You just stick it in, it melts and leaves no trace. ...

Revelation 18: 9-10 We're reveling in our success.  Yup, we're golden. But kind of vain, right? There was a lofty ship and she put out to sea, And the name of our ship was the Golden Vanity. Well, we had not been out more than two weeks or three Til we were overtaken by the Turkish Reveilee. French imperative: Reveillez-vous: Wake up! Yup, I hope I'm woke! And the kings of the earth, who had committed fornication and lived deliciously with her, shall bewail her and lament for her, when they shall see the smoke of her burning  (Revelation 18:9). Her  may refer to Babylon, Rome, Das Kapital , or the oligarchy (Facebook, Tesla, Amazon). By another way of thinking, Babylon the fallen whore is the Earth itself. The Earth destroyed by all our rapey reveling. So, who are we , then?-- White men.

Blessed Quietness , Manie Payne Ferguson, 1897 1 Chronicles 22:9-10 Joys are flowing like a river since the Comforter has come, who abides with us forever, makes the trusting heart a home. I just need to turn off my thoughts for my heart to be trusting, to feel the Comforter inside me. And especially turn off the news and stop looking at Facebook! David's reign was fraught with enemies so that he could not build a house in God's name because of all the blood he'd shed. But God spoke to him and said: Behold, a child shall be born to thee, who shall bring thee sheqet -- quietness and tranquility-- rest from all enemies round about: for their name shall be Solomon (Peace, Shalom), and I will give peace and quietness to Israel in their days. People ranting about ICE attacking Somali immigrants in Minneapolis-- many comments in favor. Shekket! Shut up!  Du, Papageno, schweige still! ( Dare I remember?-- Quiet, piggy!) OK, I'm meditating now. Blessed quietness, holy quietness...

Amazing that the old Canaanite region has the same tribal breakdown today that it had three thousand years ago. AI says that the people of Gaza are "not directly or exclusively descended from the patriarch Jacob"-- so, are not of the tribe of Israel. Well, there are twelve tribes, right?--each named after one of Jacob's sons--Reuben and Levi and the rest. Gazans are descended from the people of the Levant--including the Philistines, right?--Nausicaa's Phoenecians. But it's worth noting that modern-day Gazans are as properly named "semitic" as are Israelis. The fact that my country is helping Israel annihilate the people of Gaza proves that we deserve our fascist doom.  But those of us who are not white do not deserve it. And there are no real white people!

The things we said today. Royal we , ha ha! Talking to myself. The Things We Said Today will be my 12-1 Said Advent poem. But what does the song mean by today: Then we will remember the things we said today? Today could have been sixty years ago-- the day my closest childhood friend Victor said The Things We Said Today is the Beatles's most beautiful song-- or the day (in fact) when I tried to learn that song on the mandolin Key of A- minor, starting with four strong A-minor  da-da-Da chords (I can kind of play them on my mandolin): Da-da-You say you will love me If I have to go. You'll be thinking of me. Somehow I will know. Victor died thirty years ago. And eventually the decisive shift to A-major: Me, I'm just the lucky kind Love to hear you say that love is luck -- l uck of being alive to remember my dead friend-- Someday when we're dreaming Deep in love not a lot to say Then we will remember The things we said today.