Re-posted from: http://sofarfromheaven.com/

I’m not an admirer of human beings as being particularly inspirational, on the whole.

Yeah, a lot of human sentences find themselves trapped between quotation marks in fragments people find supportive of viewpoints that won’t stand on their own hind legs. Pithy wisdomoids giving authority to vapid premises. Often this does happen in a synthetically inspirational context. But…

My cat, Hydrox, told me something I hadn't thought much about previously:

“The only ‘we’ worth talking about involves mutual resolve.  Creatures willing to allow the well-being of others within the ‘we’ to influence what they do.  No creature unconcerned for the well-being of the others within the ‘we’, no creature the others don’t have a commitment to, can be part of a meaningful ‘we’.”

I think Hydrox was right as far as he…

A while back this dove flew in here and spent a few weeks sharing the chicken feed on the ground. 

I'd never seen a white dove before.  It's forty miles to the nearest town of any size, fifteen miles to a village big enough to have a gas…

People looking for something to be frightened about, but who prefer to have their fears based on something more solid than the imaginations of others looking for something to be frightened about might find this comforting.

The spin axis of earth and the movement of the planetary magnetic fields are constantly being monitored, measured, recorded from a lot of different locations.  The people doing it study the results, make them available in the form of email newsletters, and based on…