Ramblings of a Middle Aged Lunatic

                I think modern religion has it all wrong.                 I think they have it wrong about a whole slew of things, but the major issue is this notion that all the good people on earth that follow God’s laws are going to Heaven.                   We’re not supposed to be going to Heaven.    We’re supposed to be making Heaven.   Right here on earth.                 God is not a superior supreme all-seeing being watching and judging all that we do, including our very thoughts.   God is us. The good part of us, the positive energy in the universe.   We have been given the earth.   We can either make it Heaven or Hell.   The ...

I’ve been doing a lot of thinking lately about time, and how quickly it passes.  Just yesterday it seemed like youth was forever, and now I’m looking in the mirror seeing grey hair and wrinkles forming, and I realize it won’t be long now until everything just sags and collapses.  Soon I’ll be wearing elastic waist pants (like I don’t already, who am I kidding)? and flowered shirts and wearing geriatric shoes and liking it. I don’t know if this is just my perception, but there seems to be an awful lot of those “Before and After” celebrity shots that show stars twenty years ago and what they look like now, appearing everywhere.   It’s jarring, to say the least, because even if you’ve followed the career of say, Kate Moss, the aging was gradual.  Looking at pictures of her taken in 1992 and today side by side is shocking.   The sudden death of my mother several weeks ago has only highlighted this for me.  Hours before she died she was making plans ...