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		<title>A Christian in an &#8220;Unforgiven&#8221; world</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 08 Jun 2011 17:02:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[One of my favorite westerns is “Unforgiven.” I walked away from watching it thinking I had just seen Eastwood make a clear statement against redemptive violence. But when I talked to some others, Christians and non-Christians, their response was that the movie gloried in violence. The climax of the film is a shootout where he [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=aesopsdaughters.wordpress.com&amp;blog=3791557&amp;post=101&amp;subd=aesopsdaughters&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Death, suicide and self-recriminations</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 23 Apr 2011 22:58:45 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[A couple of years back a friend from high school reached across the sundered decades (via Facebook) to ask me a question. Less than a year before her oldest son &#8212; a talented young man who had just begun his career in Washington, DC &#8212; had been killed in a bicycle accident. She expressed concern [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=aesopsdaughters.wordpress.com&amp;blog=3791557&amp;post=99&amp;subd=aesopsdaughters&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Seasonal restraining order</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[Last Friday temperatures were around 70. A week later they are less than half that and the ground that was vowing green has returned to white. March is the month of delayed gratification, dreams deferred, and barely credible hopes that maybe tomorrow will be better than today. It offers spring like a cryptic note from [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=aesopsdaughters.wordpress.com&amp;blog=3791557&amp;post=86&amp;subd=aesopsdaughters&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>I am peeper, hear me sing</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 19 Mar 2011 06:13:32 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[A couple of days ago the peepers started to call. Their piercing notes always begin to rise in a perpetual chorus from the wetlands near the front of our house in the days before the vernal equinox. And that sound won&#8217;t cease for several weeks. It is an annual rite of spring. Thousands of these [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=aesopsdaughters.wordpress.com&amp;blog=3791557&amp;post=80&amp;subd=aesopsdaughters&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>To honest heretics everywhere</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 01 Mar 2011 20:22:25 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[In 1788, Benjamin Franklin wrote (with typical bad grammar and endless run-on sentences) in praise of a scientist and theologian with whom he was friends. He called his colleague, Joseph Priestly, &#8220;the honest heretic.&#8221; &#8220;I do not call him honest by way of distinction,&#8221; Franklin wrote, &#8220;for I think all the heretics I have know [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=aesopsdaughters.wordpress.com&amp;blog=3791557&amp;post=72&amp;subd=aesopsdaughters&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>secrecy and intimacy</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 05 Nov 2010 04:50:32 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[A ran across the following thought provoking question at a blog site. what is the relationship between &#8216;secrecy&#8217; and &#8216;intimacy&#8217;? i mean, there&#8217;s, of course, the etymology: the English word intimacy derived from the English word intimate derived from the Latin word intimus (inmost; most secret; most intimate) derived from the Latin word intimatus derived [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=aesopsdaughters.wordpress.com&amp;blog=3791557&amp;post=56&amp;subd=aesopsdaughters&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Must read sci-fi</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 03 Jun 2010 05:13:29 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[One of my favorite authors is William Gibson. I first read neuromancer around the time the internet was taking off. I read it just before a book by Howard Rheingold called "Virtual Reality." Rheingold was and is an expert on evolving computer technology. Gibson, when he wrote that novel, was an unknown who professed almost no understanding of computers. "Neuromancer" was written in 1984 and "Virtual Reality" in 1991. Remarkable was the similarities between the technological visions of the two books. Not the least of which was that Gibson imagined a universe in the interconnection of computers. He named it "cyberspace." Rheingold talked about how that place was being. and would be used.

In short, Gibson is a very good writer who is also a remarkable visionary. His books, somewhat like Ray Bradbury's, don't focus on the science part of SciFi. Tech is not a character, it is just part of the world in which the stories take place. But while his worlds are often dystopian, some nearly apocalyptic in fact, they dovetail in some rather remarkable ways with the way technology is affecting our "real" world.

So when I saw the New Yorker had asked him for his top ten list of science fiction books, I had to take a look. Some are expected gems of the genre. But others ....<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=aesopsdaughters.wordpress.com&amp;blog=3791557&amp;post=50&amp;subd=aesopsdaughters&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Christ and &#8220;Magnolia&#8221;</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 24 Mar 2010 05:37:25 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[P.T. Anderson, according to many accounts, did not begin writing &#8220;Magnolia&#8221; with any thoughts of religious overtones. The amphibian event in the film was not inspired by a biblical reference (that was written in after the script was mostly done) but by the work of Charles Fort, who wrote books about scientifically inexplicable events. Anderson [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=aesopsdaughters.wordpress.com&amp;blog=3791557&amp;post=48&amp;subd=aesopsdaughters&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>The Book of Love</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 17 Mar 2010 02:29:52 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[&#8220;The book of love is long and boring No one can lift the damn thing It’s full of charts and facts and figures And instructions for dancing&#8230;.&#8221; From &#8220;The Book of Love&#8221; by Stephin Merritt Just the other day my 16-year-old daughter and I were discussing love &#8212; and all that goes with it &#8212; [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=aesopsdaughters.wordpress.com&amp;blog=3791557&amp;post=27&amp;subd=aesopsdaughters&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Read with animation</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 05 Aug 2008 04:27:25 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[A few days ago I ran across a book review in a newspaper. The book being reviewed was &#8220;Reading Magic: Why Reading Aloud to Our Children will Change Their Lives Forever,&#8221; by Mem Fox. It was the headline of the column that caught my attention &#8212; Dads and books make a powerful combination. In the [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=aesopsdaughters.wordpress.com&amp;blog=3791557&amp;post=25&amp;subd=aesopsdaughters&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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