Death of a bunny

Janaki Salad died last night. I first noticed something was wrong Monday night when she didn't eat. She loved celery and the two stalks I had given her that morning were untouched. She would usually romp around my room but this time she just found a place to sit and didn't move.

I made an appointment for the vet but couldn't get one until this afternoon. She didn't last that long. She was wheezing last night. She hopped around the room once or twice after the lights were out, then lay down under my desk. When I got up at 2am, that's where I found her.

She was the only thing soft and cuddly I've had within reach for a long time and I'll miss her.

Killer bunnies from outer space

Opening scene: talk show discusses the ludicrosity (wait! that's not a real word! who cares???) of an invasion of killer bunnies.

Talk show is interrupted by a news bulletin.

Cut to the evil General McCaw giving orders to the invasion strike force leader Commander Cuddles (pictured at right).

Then it's all over but the screaming...

Coming soon to a download site near you...

Rough weather hopefully behind...

OK, there are some stories I haven't been telling. Some may have to wait until May.
But mostly I haven't been keeping up to date because I'm lazy. That's right, you guessed it.

Saw a very interesting National Geographic show last night on "The Gospel of Judas." Whoooo boy - despite the careful approach they took with scholars dished up with more scholars, I'm sure some people will take exception to to any boat-rocking of belief systems.

I think the healthiest approach to dialectical spiritualism is to accept that spirituality (or professed lack of it) is a manner of self-expression. Everyone doesn't have to express themselves the same way (unless you have a really totalitarian approach to things).

Anyway it piqued my interest in diving into Gnostic teachings a little more. As a non-Christian in a very occasionally belligerently Christian country, I identify heavily with Jesus and his teachings - though in a way that many "in the mainstream" would not agree with.

The part I found most interesting is the idea that there is a spark of divinity within each of us, which runs somewhat contrary to an idea circulated by many who claim that a central tenet of Christianity is that since the fall of Adam and Eve, we are all inherently sinful and without redemption have no hope.

But there's a different approach to that discussion which I'll save for another day...