Advent I: The waiting may not be, in fact, the hardest part
The annunciation to Zechariah. Gabriel stands on the left, Zechariah on the right. I’m not sure what the birds signify, but I like them. Ethiopian Orthodox icon, ca. 1700. Image source: Wikimedia Commons This is the First Sunday of Advent. Throughout this season I will be posting a small devotional-type thing like this one every [...]
Behold the Void
The Zen enso, a symbol of the interplay between Form and Void Sitting meditation is not, as is often supposed, a spiritual “exercise,” a practice followed for some ulterior object. From a Buddhist standpoint, it is simply the proper way to sit, and it seems perfectly natural to remain sitting so long as there is [...]
Nostalgia for gamma rays
My homepage is NASA’s Astronomy Picture of the Day. It’s a great place to call home. And today when I opened up Firefox I was presented with a large version of the above image. It is an image of the entire sky as you would see it if your eyes were sensitive to gamma rays [...]
