Friday the 9th

Shouldn’t read news early, but EarthSky News is irresistible: asteroid to pass earth today, 39,000 miles distant, leads click by click to NASA Planetary Defense Coordination Office article https://www.nasa.gov/planetarydefense/faq. As it says, unlikely, an undetected object could strike earth at any moment, but go ahead and finish your breakfast. Rest of the news: fighting, hatred, our speck on a speck place in the greater scheme of cosmology renders pathetic our infighting, but it’s evidently innate, our nature, ants v ants, bees v bees, dog v dog, tribe v tribe, band v band, ish v ish, congress v congress of baboons, disturbing, distressing likeness, image, divine likeness whether from Word or dirt, earth, mud, ground, ha-a-da-ma, Breath, behold earthling. Why must we fear, hate, fight and destroy, kill each other - no fighting until Word spoken or Spirit breathed into: it appears that we must, have no say, it’s innate to our likeness, our divine image. A divine experiment of - - 



No? read the Book of Joshua to see where we got it, were taught it, led and commanded to it. “The God of Peace, who brought again from the dead …” an appealing divergence until it comes to “through the blood,” which returns us home after all. Are You the One, or should we look for another? Octogenarial musing, repented, confessed, penanced and absolved.

Breakfast. From cioppino, tomato base with chicken broth, cod, crabmeat, shrimp, to added lee kum kee oyster sauce to added oysters, to can of creole okra gumbo bought September in Louisiana, Time and creation moving toward perfection, darkened by more oyster sauce, another half pint of oysters cooked into just this morning. Water, glass of water.

88/53 p31, nap.

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