A brief prayer from The Left Hand of Darkness comes to me often. On the planet Gethen, in the book, it’s from the Handdara; here on Earth, it sounds like something from process theology. I was moved to say it by today’s photo on NASA’s Astronomy Picture of the Day:
“Praise Creation unfinished!”
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April 3, 2014 at 8:58 am
Carol Bierach
I am again pleasantly surprised…. to see you are a daily APOD person… as am I…. and science fiction/fantasy! and an artist too! and kids with analogous rainbow names!!
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Ursula K. LeGuin: An appreciation (Very Far Away from Anywhere Else) | Sermons in Stones
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