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Heinrich Schutz’ lament for Absalom
Thanks to Dennis Aubrey of Via Lucis for sharing Heinrich Schutz’s rendering of David’s lament, “My son, Absalom!” in response to “Holy Tears: David, Absalom…and Us” posted here on Views from the Edge...
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Pavlov’s Dog and American Illusion
“Views from the Edge” is not partisan. We couldn’t care less who owns the ideas. It’s the ideas themselves we care about. Our intent is to unpack the deeper philosophical and religious convictions...
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Opting for Silence
Views from the Edge will be closing down for the time being. Whether on Wednesday morning we wake to election results to our personal liking or to results that confirm, in our opinion, the adage that...
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Basho and Election Day on Views from the Edge
Old pond, frog jumps in - splash. Views from the Edge jumped OUT of the blog pond two days ago. Then… yesterday… it made a big splash. The daily number of visits soared to 1,466 yesterday, 14 times...
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Sojourners publishes “Just Leave Me Alone”
This afternoon Sojourners published “Just Leave Me Alone” as a Lenten Reflection. Jim Wallis, founder and CEO of Sojourners, is one of the nation’s outstanding social justice theologians and...
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End the Violence
Today’s Sojourners’ blog posted End the Violence . After reading this article, I submitted this comment about the “comments”: I am continually amazed and dismayed by the character and content of...
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A Beautiful Woman
Mary Magdalene“Not a Limerick” A beautiful woman named Honey Told jokes with a countenance sunny. The punch lines were bold, and the jokes were well told, but since not about sex were not funny. -...
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Syria piece re-published today
Today MinnPost re-published yesterday’s Views from the Edge piece. They do a fine job of editing and draw a wider audience. Here’s the link: Irony of Ironies: Honoring King, then entertaining a...
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Verse – Almost 2015
On the Seventh Day of Christmas It was New Year’s Eve: Fifty Drunkards drinking, Forty Fatsos feasting, Thirty Flighty Females flirting, Twenty Macho Males maneuvering, Ten Cute Couples kissing And...
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2014 in review
Thanks to all of you who visited Views from the Edge in 2014: about 20,000 visits from 126 countries. Here’s an excerpt from WordPress’s year end report: The concert hall at the Sydney Opera House...
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Say “Good Night”
After a long day, it’s time for Views from the Edge to say “Good Night” and “Thanks for dropping by today”. Filed under: America, Comedy, Humor, Life, Uncategorized Tagged: comedy, George Burns,...
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Not “Good-bye”– just “Goodnight”
Last night we signed off with “Say ‘Good Night”, a video of George Burns and Gracie Allen ending their show with George saying to Gracie, “Say ‘Good Night'” and Gracie saying “Good Night” to the...
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Who Is Emily Hedges?
Emily Hedges Emily’s not just any writer. She’s a good one! Emily’s review of Go Set a Watchman, Harper Lee’s controversial sequel to To Kill a Mockingbird, appeared on Views from the Edge on...
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THE QUESTION – to be or not to be?
Hamlet, William Shakespeare The questions “Who am I?” and “Why is Views from the Edge still here in 2016?” share a bit of Hamlet’s question whether “to be or not to be?” We’re no Shakespeare! But...
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Question for readers of Views from the Edge
I need your help. I’m taking a refresher course called Blogging 101. Views from the Edge is the name of this site. Fine. I’m sticking with it. But what about a “tag line”? Since “Views from the Edge”...
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About Us: One Little Corner
I’ve always had a sense of living at the edge of the world. It’s not a bad thing. It’s not a good thing. It’s just the way it’s always been for me. But, as I watch and listen from my little corner of...
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2014 in review
Thanks to all of you who visited Views from the Edge in 2014: about 20,000 visits from 126 countries. Here’s an excerpt from WordPress’s year end report: The concert hall at the Sydney Opera House...
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Breaking Silence
Views from the Edge (VFTE) has fallen silent lately. Maybe you have too. The reasons for silence are like the hairs on our heads. Who can count them? The silence on Views from the Edge is both...
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Jump start down by the old Mill stream
My battery went dead on January 8. I had no interest. Nothing to say. Views from the Edge was dead as a doornail. I wondered if the juices would ever flow again, but didn’t much care whether they did....
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Dear Friends, It’s been a while. Views from the Edge has been unusually silent after the video of George Floyd’s murder under a white Minneapolis Police Department cop’s knee went viral. The silence...
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