At the urging of an AI teacher I am rewriting some of the HTML code of The Zoo Fence website. A few decades ago, this would have taken me a few hours. Now, many decades later it is going to take this old man longer, much longer.
Why The Zoo Fence? One night in 1974, in a fishing camp on the windward side of Moloka'i in the Hawaiian Islands, one of us dreamed of publishing a journal called One day in Eden, Adam sees Eve for the first
time. Again, a reminder: This website is undergoing major surgery. It is going to be a while, a long while, before it is truly presentable again. In the meantime to open the next page, click hereThe Zoo Fence
. The name probably originated from the practice of the Honolulu Zoo to allow artists to display their work on the zoo fence along Monsarrat Avenue. Some years later, when The Laughing Cat issued a newsletter which evolved into this website, the choice of a name seemed already to have been made. Why the laughing cat? Back then, we shared our home with a cat that laughed.
the zoo fence at Waikiki
“I am Adam,” he says to her.
“Yes, I know,” Eve replies, “so am
I.”
In The Beginning
Chapter 4
A Brother Theophyle cartoon
Call No Man Father
Theo asks his friend, Rabbit “How come you’re so sure God exists?”
Rabbit responds, “That’s easy, I created Him.”
Theo wonders, “Don’t you mean, He created you?”
Rabbit agrees, “That’s what I said, He created me to create Him.”
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· The Zoo Fence ·
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Words I Use
and what I mean
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A spiritual seeker's rule of thumb:
If it can fit into my mind, it's too small
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Consider this
The physical body is not what I am.
It is where I am.
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This too …
Apparently I am someone
appearing
as an apparently distinct embodied self,
namely Stefan (substitute your name),
living an apparently mortal life
in an apparently material world
for an apparent while
and no apparent reason
other than just because.
Or not.
I know that I know nothing
Plato quoting Socrates
You say tomayto, I say tomahto
to God it's all one, the One
thanks to George and Ira Gershwin
we two
Stefan and Nancy
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OM
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a path to awakening
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RELIGIOUS & SPIRITUAL
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The function, the purpose, the reason of bodily life is to learn how to love ourselves, how to love one another, how to love creation, the fact of it, the content of it, the source of it, responsibly, generously, sensibly, healthfully, thoroughly, delightfully, spiritually. And so, yes, I am convinced we reincarnate repeatedly, as often as it takes, until we pay attention, until we take life seriously, until we take love seriously, until we learn how.
In a word, we're in class.
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Beware the man of one book.
Saint Thomas Aquinas
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CONSCIOUSNESS
what it is … and is not
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· Prayers in The Quiet Room ·
and
· What is Prayer ·
· Let us Pray ·
· A Simple Meditation Practice ·
· A Seeker’s Primer ·
· Asking Prayer ·
There is only One Thing in the Universe
It Is God — God Is It
therefore, the love, the beauty, the peace
that can be found anywhere can be found everywhere
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The Lord is my shepherd,
I shall not whine.
here and
here
Every happening, great and small,
is a parable whereby God speaks to us,
and the art of life is to get the message.
Malcolm Muggeridge
So I will pray that my heart,
where You already have a foothold,
may receive more and more of You,
until one day the whole of me
will be filled with the Whole of You!
Saint Augustine
And such a word is this word God
The Cloud of Unknowing
M A R R I A G E
marriage is not about the two of us
marriage is about the three of us
you and me and God (believed in or not)
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and
Divorce
when unavoidable
(ditto)
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· In The Beginning ·
deciphering the why of life
· A Continuing Fiction ·
the stories of Peter K Wensleydale
· Take Off Your Shoes ·
the quest for spiritual awareness
· The Cranberry Tales ·
a children's story for adults too
· The Fall ·
catastrophe or conspiracy
· The Last Supper ·
this bread, this body
· The Crucifixion ·
why didn’t he run
Nancy at The Zoo Fence
Sitting Angel
The Case for and Against Celibacy
Mother Teresa's Prayer
Coincidence or Grace
… and many more
What is my life
?
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