Welcome to the internet's busiest one-person medical site. I'm Ed, "the pathology guy", an MD with board certification in anatomic and clinical pathology.
As the internet has grown, my course site has grown into a large, free public service.
I'm here to help anyone seeking to understand the "why"'s of health and disease, and to find what's known about uncommon diseases. Obviously I cannot diagnose or treat online, and I cannot comment on care you may have received. A visit to my site cannot substitute for your doctor's care.
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When we were both beginning our unusual medical careers, the real Patch Adams M.D., physician and humorist, wrote me encouragement. My pages deal with the most serious, and often the saddest, things in life. But I hope that others can find, throughout this site, a spirit of kindness and humility, and sometimes even a philosophical chuckle.
Friendship has always been the most important thing to me. The 'web has enabled me to be a friend to thousands of people around the world. For this I'm overwhelmingly grateful.
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The best way to find yourself is to lose yourself in the service of others.
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College: Brown U.,
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'72,
Magna in English Lit 1973 Medicine: Northwestern Medical School Residency: Northwestern, Wake Forest Board-certified in anatomic and clinical pathology Chairman, Dept. of Pathology, Kansas City University of Medicine and Biosciences, KC MO. Verify here. Focus: Helping people understand disease. Experienced lecturer, autopsy pathologist, medico-legal work (civil and criminal; plaintiffs, prosecutors, defendants; whoever I believe is RIGHT) |
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"The Pathology Blues"
"The Pathology Blues" -- animated
The Kansas City Field Guide to Pathology.
Recognizing lesions.
Basic Medical Histology -- Under Construction
General Pathology Board-Review
Systemic Pathology Board-Review
Bryan Lee: Pathology Instructor
Dino LaPorte: Pathology Instructor
Dino's
"PathoWeb" Museum
Ed Lulo MD -- Pathology Instructor
Ed Garcia MD: Medical Pictures
Tom Demark MD: Medical Pictures
Belief in God -- "For" and "Against"
Jesus of Nazareth
Mary of Nazareth
Ed's Notes on the Prayer Book Propers
The Episcopalian Lectionary
Ed's Notes
Franciscan Timeline
Science Education for the Clergy
Lambda Chi Alpha
Paul Skyles, one of four little brothers at the fraternity
William Blake's "Milton"
"The Tyger"
Li Po's Hermitage (Adventure Gaming)
Preventing F's: A Guide for Tough Teachers
The Ancient Musical Modes: What Were They?
If your browser is Java-capable, try my Medical Vocabulary Applet!
You can also visit my Medical Terminology Page
The Pathology Blues! Students learn best when they're laughing. Click here to download a DOS routine that plays a song made up of verses written by medical students taking their final exam. Sing along with me in my ASCII-art incarnation.
Episcopalians on the "Web": Help yourselves to my spinning logos.
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Since I became an Episcopalian in 1978, the denomination (1) has never told me anything that I knew was not true; (2) has never told me I was better than anybody else; (3) has never told me to hate anybody; (4) has never told me to do anything I knew was wrong; (5) has surprised me with the lack of hypocrisy among clergy and laity; (6) has never pestered me for money.
The denomination doesn't proof-text, embraces natural science, supports a person who chooses a clean-living single lifestyle, treats your private life and your politics as your own business, uses the golden rule as guide to behavior, regards all people of good-will as friends, focuses on life in this world, and insists that the Gospel faith and the Christian commitment are not merely personal or cultural prejudices. I say I made a good choice.
Meet the Archbishop
of Canterbury. Anglican Communion -- official site What Is Christianity? -- lecture by Rowan Williams St. James's Cathedral, Chicago -- my first parish Anglican Franciscans -- daily office prayers Textweek Lectionary Studies Virtue Online -- Global Orthodox (ultraconservative) Anglicanism. Link provided to show our diversity and as a balance to our very vocal (and generally despised) left-wing crazies; in particular, I cannot really support their anti-evolution talk or their outrage over women's ordination. Survey of Theology -- St. John in the Wilderness Ken Collins -- Disciples of Christ pastor who uses Anglican sources. I found much to like here. The Golden Key -- said to be an effective technique for prayer that changes you rather than tries to manipulate the Lord; squares well with the Sermon on the Mount |
August 2003: The denomination has been in the news.
The whole business has gotten a lot more attention
from outside the Episcopal church than from within.
Since the early 1900's, it's been understood
that what goes on between consenting, safety-conscious adults in
private is their own business. However, the norm
is still (1) saving "the best" for a stable, lifelong
marriage between a man and a woman; (2) focusing on stable, quality
friendship rather than "romance" with your own gender; (3)
following the Golden Rule in every aspect of your
walk through life.
All this seems best to me. If your experience
as a grown-up has been different, you'll need to conclude that I'm wrong.
March 2006: In the news again. The truth is that I feel
real solidarity with, and admiration for,
parents in Nigeria who are risking their
lives to profess the Christian faith in the face of militant
pseudo-Islam, and to raise families on a foundation of common
sense and common decency.
Right or wrong, the decisions by the US bishops
have played into the hands of the
world's worst anti-Christian hate-mongers.
Whatever happens, I'm loyal to the
larger Anglican communion
-- especially when it serves the real
needs of the world's genuinely neediest people.
Of course, you're welcome to disagree.
Mind Stuff
"I chose to become..."
... 'Tis known, I ever
Have studied physic, through which secret art,
By turning o'er authorities, I have,
Together with my practice, made familiar
To me and to my aid the blest infusions
That dwell in vegetives, in metals, stones;
And I can speak of the disturbances
That nature works, and of her cures, which doth
A more content in course of true delight
Than to be thirsty after tottering honor
Or tie my treasure up in silken bags,
To please the fool and death.
Shakespeare, "Pericles"
Despite my being an aggressive man, my interests have always been primarily academic.
For me, relaxing is learning a new computer language and using it to program. Entertainment is reading the classics or "Scientific American". A good vacation is one spent at the local public library.
I have an extremely high regard for truth, and very little tolerance for lies, especially the ones that interfere with human health and reasonable human freedom.
If 47 years on this planet has taught me anything, it's that making good decisions (for yourself and others) begins with looking at the world as it really is, taking elaborate precautions against kidding ourselves. This is called science. I recommend it. Science cannot tell us what's right or wrong, or answer our questions about ultimate concerns. But it's self-correcting, tremendously satisfying, and (contrary to what the crackpots on every side have told you) clearly makes its practitioners more, not less, humane.
The primacy I give to science as a way of knowing should not surprise any persons of faith (Christian, other) who actually know their stuff.
Here are a few of my favorite links.
American Scientific Affiliation --
the premiere organization for mainstream Christians
interested in dealing honestly with the implications
of scientific discovery. No one will agree with everything
on these pages, but I especially appreciate the debunking
of pseudo-Christian anti-science.
In college, I went through the synoptic gospels word-by-word,
underlining as follows:
It took me a full week.
I concluded that "Matthew" (the first evangelist) and "Luke"
(the third evangelist) used written copies of "Mark" (the second evangelist")
and another document ("Q"), the latter having the form that was used
in the time for saying of the famous rabbis. I also concluded that
Matthew had some special material ("M") that I suspected was
orally transmitted, and that Luke had some special material ("L") that
I couldn't decide (oral or written). Later I applied these techniques to
the Gospel of Thomas, and concluded that the author had used a written copy
of the Third Gospel at the time of writing. All of this seems to be generally
agreed-on by secular scholars.
My exegetical paper was on the finding of the Book of the Law in the temple
(I Kings 22). I strongly
favored the Wellhausen idea, which I discovered
had been strengthened by the then-recent
discovery of cuneiform tablets bearing
the vassal-treaties of Esarhaddon.
So far, this is the first mention
of this on the web.
(This was in 1996 -- some books are now online on the subject.)
Again, the
quality of the Book of Deuteronomy speaks for itself.
In no way did this study compromise my Christian faith -- it strengthened
it -- as my fellow-Christians on the college faculty and chaplain's
office assured me that it would.
All that you'll find online against this kind of study is ad-hominem
attacks, diatribes, and
proof-texting from religionists.
I have a ninth-commandment problem
with this. And life has taught me that people sling mud
when they know they have no case. The Third Evangelist
even says he used sources. Bill Long -- Christian thinker and friend from Brown. Thanks, Bill!
Buddhist thought
Do not believe in anything simply because you have heard it.
Do not believe in anything simply because it is spoken and rumored by many.
Do not believe in anything simply because it is found written in your religious books.
Do not believe in anything merely on the authority of your teachers and elders.
Do not believe in traditions because they have been handed down for many generations.
But after observation and analysis, when you find that anything agrees
with reason and is conducive to the good and benefit of one and all,
then accept it and live up to it.
Buddhist ethics are simple -- try to avoid violence, sexual impropriety,
dishonest or abusive speech, stealing, and recreational intoxicants, and
be generous. Notice that these are all about how you treat others.
When you do wrong, there is no need to obtain supernatural forgiveness;
you simply try to understand why you failed and to do better.
Since Buddhism does not address questions like "Is there a God?"
or "Were we specially created?", and does not require belief in particular
doctrines as a condition of salvation, it has always been easy to
incorporate it into existing theologies, as happened in Tibet and among
its many Judeo-Christian admirers.
Although this culture-neutral was supported by foreign conquerors in India, China, and Japan,
Buddhism was never a government sect that sought to change human
nature through legislation. Its early development was in a monastic
community. Despite its supposed world-negating outlook, early Buddhists
founded hospitals and did other good works for their neighbors.
Buddhist monks and outspoken laity have been persecuted under
communism and under right-wing dictatorships.
The mistreatment of the Dalai Lama's people by the Communist Chinese
is infamous.
During the early 1960's, the world admired the series
of Vietnamese Buddhist
monks who burned themselves to death to protest the corruption
of the Diem regime. Madame Nhu, the fabulously wealthy
wife of the chief of Diem's secret police, described their self-sacrifice
as "a waste of good gasoline."
That was when I first realized we'd made some terrible mistakes
and would probably lose the war.
The Buddha's teaching begins with what we all realize to be true,
at least in our more lucid moments. Our names, our bodies, our
possessions, our accomplishments, our ordinary relationships,
and so forth are all transitory and are not really us. By thinking
clearly and living well, we can start removing illusions and
senseless attachments.
Buddhism teaches that
real happiness is found in this way, and only in this way.
Some Buddhists have taught that there is no "real self", while for
Christians, it is the norm to say that each person harbors a spiritual
something -- not really like anything we know in daily life --
that chooses its ultimate destiny by affirming or denying
the supreme Love made known in Christ.
A Christian might say that we are not really ourselves until we love one another as Christ loves us.
Both faiths agree that our
life in this world is not of ultimate concern (though our decisions
made here may well be),
and that only the life of the spirit has real value.
So perhaps they are really saying the same thing.
"Nirvana", the Buddhist goal,
means "cessation". Some people have said that for Buddhists,
the world of our experiences is a sort of disagreeable movie that
we leave only with great difficulty. Other Buddhists have told me this
is wrong, and that "nirvana" is simply the end of hatred, lust,
greed, and ignorance, and the surprising joy we find when these cease.
Freed from the petty concerns of life,
the enlightened Buddhist becomes a minister to others in this world
and the worlds beyond this life. For such a "bodhisattva",
life in the world is nirvana.
Many people in many different cultures -- not just Buddhists --
have said that
real happiness is something we discover when, and
only when, we detach ourselves emotionally
from the ordinary preoccupations of
life. Those who claim to have experienced
it say it is a big surprise. These claims are so common
and similar that even a secularist might think they could be true.
A practicing Buddhist might look forward to life without passions.
A Christian would look instead to being filled with unselfish love
for others, no matter how undeserving. I wonder whether these
could be the same.
Years ago, I read an article in a medical journal comparing the
effectiveness of Christian and Buddhist pastors in preparing
condemned criminals for execution. Imagine facing
this yourself.
Then consider someone asking you, "Uh... just
exactly what
do you think you're going to miss out on?" The latter message
is both Buddhist and Biblical, and it was by far the most effective.
Post-Vatican II Christians are fond of using the term "anonymous
Christians" for all persons of good will, believing that they have
unknowingly but truly accepted Christ as Lord and Savior. Whatever
others may think of this, one of the questions I'm looking forward to
having answered in heaven is whether a saint is the same as a bodhisattva.
Caltech Astronomy Knowledgebase
Classical music in the movies:
Noted composer John Carbon
and I played keyboard together in high school.
Chinese Dictionary
"Forgiven" --
Thomas Blackshear's 1992
Christian painting
Arbatel of
Magic -- Live to thyself, and the Muses; avoid the
friendship of the Multitude: be thou covetous of time,
beneficial to all men. Use thy Gifts, be vigilant in thy
Calling; and let the Word of God never depart from thy mouth.
Also Johannes Trithemius.
Archive X -- people share tales of "paranormal" experiences
Archives of Scientists' Transcendent Experiences
Bible Codes? My notes on
the new pseudoscience fad.
Bible Study
The quality of the Bible, especially considering the era in which
it was written, speaks for itself. My background, especially during
my first several years as a Christian, includes
examining its composition by the rules of secular scholarship.
There is little online about this, but the study is fascinating and
(I find) persuasive.
Mark only: Orange
Luke only: Red
Matthew only: Blue
Matthew and Mark, not Luke: Yellow
Mark and Luke, not Matthew: Pink
Matthew and Luke, not Mark: Purple
Matthew, Mark, and Luke: Black
Yahoo! Buddhism
Buddha Net
Progressive Buddhism -- Mahayanist focus on building a better world right here and now
Vimalakirti Sutra -- a favorite for its conciseness and humor. Link is now down.
Zen and the Art of Divebombing -- Professor Kelly Ross on why Bushido is not Buddhism.
Near-Death Experiences of Buddhists -- "The essential
and most important qualities in life are love and knowledge, compassion and wisdom."
-- Attributed to Siddhartha Gautama ("The Buddha")
Let nothing trouble you, nothing frighten you.
God never changes. All else passes away.
Patient endurance accomplishes everything.
If you have God, you lack nothing.
Only God is enough.
-- Theresa of Avila
Christian Solidarity Worldwide -- update on persecutions. Nonsectarian and seemingly reasonable.
Chess and variants
Eden Collinsworth, author and vice-presendent
of Hearst, attended grammar school with me. I am enormously pleased, but
not surprised, by her accomplishments.
Committee for the Scientific
Investigation of Claims of the Paranormal
Contemporary
Critical Theory -- mostly people pretending to talk
about literature while actually promoting various left-wing
ideologies. Lots of this going on
in college English departments these days
Deliverance
Ministry -- from a group that distrusts personal intuition in this situation
Deliverance Ministry -- Virgil Michael OSB
Spiritual Warfare -- Roman Catholic
Spiritual Warfare -- Roman Catholic
Dickens -- "A Christmas Carol". ...Any
Christian spirit working kindly in its little sphere, whatever it may be, will
find its mortal life too short for its vast means of usefulness.... No space of regret can
make amends for one's life's opportunity misused! -- Marley's ghost
The Didache -- a very early guide to Christian doctrine and behavior
The Didache -- Ben H. Swett's notes
Dream of Scipio
-- Cicero's vision of human life viewed from the unchanging heavens.
Ed's Basic Science Trivia Quiz
Exam Master -- largely the work of my former assistant Ed Lulo MD
Foundation for Individual Rights in Education
George Ritchie
-- "How could [Christ] have told me, and I not heard?"
"I told you by the life I lived. I told you by
the death I died. And if you keep your eyes on me, you will see more...."
Georgia State Hyperphysics
Glossary
of Literary Terms -- U. of Toronto, no weird left-wing stuff
Goethe's
"Faust". Goethe's mixed thoughts on life and the beginnings
of the modern age. Powerfully
suggestive.
"One kiss from Gretchen is worth a thousand allegories."
Goethe's Faust,
rather than the devil, is the monstrous egomaniac. In one very
funny scene, Faust invents junk bonds.
Click here for a very helpful commentary by A. Gilles.
Goethe's Faust (notes)
John Glashan -- my family's favorite cartoonist in the 1960's. Memorial site placed by his family.
Harry Potter:
A Christian appreciation by Charles Colson. "The plots reinforce the theme that evil is
real, and must be courageously opposed. As this theme unfolds,
so do the characters of Harry and his friends. They develop
courage, loyalty, and a willingness to sacrifice for one another --
even at the risk of their lives. Not bad lessons in a self-centered
world."
Harry Potter Facts
Stephen Hawking's website
I Hate Histology
-- motivational drama for entering medical students
Homonyms
Humor
I have long believed that these people, whose original language became the basis of the major languages from Ireland through India, conquered because they were the original horse-riders.
Hints from prehistory Celtic culture and the Vedas suggest that they had a professional full-time military (centered on their rider-archers) that accepted the authority of a civilian learned class (Brahmins / Druids). I would think this explains their phenomenal success.
The Left alternates between blaming these people and the Judeo-Christians for all the world's evils. Specifically, they are accused of destroying the early civilizations in which everybody lived in love, sweetness and harmony with nature and each other. I wish that could have been true.
Jeff Cox on Progressive Creationism. Link is now down.
All mainstream Christians believe in the doctrine of creation -- that the world is essentially a good and worthwhile place, and that we are meant to be God's friends and companions. This is in contradistinction to some Gnostic sectarians and some non-Christians who hold that the natural world is the devil's work and/or an unpleasant charade that we escape only with much difficulty. |
Notice that believing in creation does NOT require me to believe that the Good Lord designed me and my solar system like engineers design automobiles. Pythagoras said, "It's all in the math". The current work in physics gives me a sense of both astonishment and reverence. Only very ignorant or the very crooked people ridicule today's astrophysics on "Christian" grounds.
Paul writes in Corinthians 15:44 about "natural bodies" that we presently inhabit, using the Greek term "soma psychikon", or in Latin, "corpus animale." As it's been explained to me, Greek "zoe" refers to the content we study in basic biology, "psyche" refers to the mind-body complex, and "pneuma" is our spiritual future. You can decide for yourself about this. But if you have ever had pets, you know how much they have in common with us. They possess many qualities that we admire, often being good in ways that few humans are. It puzzles me that some Christians object to the idea that we are descended from animals. The truth is that we usually show the Christ Child surrounded and adored by both humans and animals. I think this reflects something that most of us believe. If the animals are our (and His) blood relatives, then isn't it reasonable to think that they, too, are saved by His Incarnation? And only humans sin, so only humans need the Cross.
Even the director emeritus of Intervarsity Christian Fellowship now believes in evolution. Click here for his review of Perspectives on an Evolving Creation.
Even a non-Christian knows something about the earth, the heavens, and the other elements of this world, about the motions and orbit of the stars and even their size and relative positions, about the predictable eclipses of the sun and moon, the cycles of the years and the seasons, about the kinds of animals, shrubs, stones, and so forth, and this knowledge he holds to as being certain from reason and experience. Now it is a disgraceful and dangerous thing for a non-Christian to hear a Christian, presumably giving the meaning of Holy Scripture, talking nonsense on these topics; and we should take all means to prevent such an embarrassing situation, in which people show up vast ignorance in a Christian and laugh it to scorn. -- St. Augustine, "The Literal Meaning of Genesis"
John Savard --
another varied website by a man who shares several of
my interests (physics, music theory, chess variants)
Kansas City, Kansas Community
College
Lord
Byron Popular romantic writer with whom I identify (at least partly).
Man's man, distance swimmer, also "invisibly handicapped".
I wish I had his wit or his
scores of lady "admirers". At the end of his short life, Byron gave up
a self-indulgent lifestyle to be a freedom fighter.
Marat-Sade:
One of my favorites when I was a sixties teen interested in ideas.
The play's theme -- the debate
between Marat and deSade -- is stale today, but still easy to recognize.
Marat is a sixties communist. DeSade is a sixties proponent of free
love. In real life, neither man, and neither idea, proved to be much good.
Meet Joe Black --
Hollywood for once celebrates spiritual goodness.
Pascal's Memorial. Also here, in its biographical context.
Pascal --
French physicist, mathematician, and Christian thinker
I have concluded that Paul learned about the Big Bang, the true size and age of the universe, atoms and molecules, relativity, quantum theory, the genetic code, the common origins of living things, life on other planets, and how these fit with the Christian world-view though not with the "science and philosophy" of the Hellenistic age. I would like to have seen Paul's face when he saw the dinosaurs. Paul must have been forbidden to talk about what he had learned, because the human race would not believe it until we discovered it on our own. |
Nowadays Paul takes flack for saying "A woman should keep silent in church", "Wives be subject to your husbands", "Slaves be subject to your masters", "Fornicators will not inherit the kingdom of heaven", and so forth. These have been used as proof-texts for political positions that I think are wrong today. Whatever Paul may really have meant, his own letters show that women exercised an extensive ministry in his church, and that he used his pastoral skills to bring about a reconciliation between a master and his runaway slave.
If there is human error in Paul's letters (reasonable people will disagree, for example, about such passages as "baptism for the dead" or "the reason some of you are sick or have died is because you did not perceive Christ's body and blood in the sacrament", and so forth), this does not detract from my appreciation of his key contribution. Especially, I am impressed by Paul's explanation for human imperfection ("We inherited it from Adam"). Despite the limits of ancient knowledge, Paul recognized (by inspiration?) that the problem was human origins and the impact they still have on human nature.
Pelagian Christianity.
Although Pelagius Britto is probably
wrong on a technicality, it is hard not to admire his
"take charge and decide to live well" philosophy.
We know that
Pelagius taught that sickness and death were natural
phenomena rather than a divine punishment for hereditary sin.
(Of course I'm with Pelagius on this, as are most
of today's mainstream Christians.)
Pelagius also took strong exception to Augustine's
"Confessions", with the focus on massive guilt over
what most people (then and now, Christians and non-Christians)
would probably consider just being human.
I'm told that when Pelagius challenged Augustine, he was in his
early twenties. If he'd been older, he might have realized
that grace had operated in his own life before he made his
conscious decision to follow Christ.
Still, Pelagius deserves to be remembered by all Christians
(and friendly non-Christians) who want to focus on
common sense, good living,
and treating others well.
A self-described "Pelagian / Celtic Orthodox" prison ministry focused
"It's YOU who makes the moral decisions, and it's YOU who are responsible"
used to operate one of my favorite
websites; it's gone now.
Augustine's "Confessions" are also a great read.
Whatever you may think of the fine points of his theology (or Pelagius's),
this work began the literature of harsh introspection in the West.
Peter Olver, math giant, shared a room with me in college.
Also here.
The city of Sigil
is the source for all the conflicting answers people
have given for the central mystery of suffering.
Travellers from Sigil carry ideas to all the worlds. And from
Sigil, one can travel to
dimensions where whole communities
are united by common moral and ethical commitments.
These resemble the "intermediate state"
in which many of my fellow-Anglicans believe.
Like many other people, I've used "Planescape" to write
for young people about life in our our confusing world.
I believe that when we think hard about the larger issues
in life, most of us will make the right choices.
Progressive Islam
My book is called "Shut Up and
Stop Whining: How to Do Something With Your Life Besides
Think About Yourself." -- Bill Watterson's Calvin.
Pelagius
Anglican
source on Augustine, clearly with divided sympathies
Neopagan
appreciation of Pelagius
Planning Commissioners Journal --
a tremendous internet site
by my college friend Wayne Senville
This brilliant adventure-game scenario from TSR Hobbies
parodies our own world's ideals and ideologies.
In the city of Sigil, the police force is operated by the Religious Right.
The law courts are controlled by the scientific naturalists,
and the guilty are handed over to the justice-activists for
punishment.
New-age "you create your own reality" mystics run the legislature.
Progress mystics run the manufacturing operations.
The radical intuitivists operate the sports complex.
The sensualists run the entertainment district.
The self-empowerment militants / objectivists collect the taxes.
The insane asylum is run by the existentialists.
The nihilists control the military, and the death mystics run the mortuary.
The shout-and-pout Left, the anti-clericists,
and the joyful anarchists all take part in the propaganda war.
Staunchly open-minded people operate the business district.
Muqtedar Khan's "Challenge to American Muslims"
Quartz Hill School of Theology. Southern Baptist
site committed to quality, common sense, and clear thinking. "The criterion by which the Bible is
to be interpreted is Jesus Christ." The site differs from typical Anglican
positions only over Biblical inerrancy and the nature of the Lord's Supper.
American Islamic Forum for Democracy -- "Leading American Muslim voice taking back Islam from the demagoguery of the Islamo-fascists"
Islam and
science
A Muslim Prayer for Peace and Religious Tolerance
What
is the Koran?
Yunus Emre;
classic Islamic humanist who is a favorite of the progressives
in Turkey
Religious
Database -- seminary-level
I proved that I could help and heal, with medicines and surgeon's steel,
Then turned my heart and mind and eye to tell my fellows what and why.
No longer hearing beating hearts, I meet the living but as parts.
The parts exposed to glassy view, and much enlarged, give answers true.
No longer touching vital skin, I find the truth hid deep within.
Though I still wear the surgeon's mask, the final search is now my task.
Still as a surgeon gloved and gowned, I'm here when last things must be found.
And now on me my peers depend to tell what happened in the end.
Answer: Pathologist
Rupert Oysler and Larry Olson were among my closest friends at Brown.
Science Premiere US
science journal.
Science World
Science Friday
Public Radio news program
Scientology --
the death of Lisa McPherson. A few hours after this article
was published, I received a phone call from St. Petersberg, by a
man who stated that he was NOT officially representing the
Church of Scientology, but was friendly to them.
His exact words were, "You
can name your price."
I told him, as politely as I could,
to go to hell. I heard no more, and wondered whether
this was actually a church representative who wanted me to
switch sides, somebody trying
to trap me, a loose cannon, or an elaborate prank.
Shaw -- "Man and Superman."
Don Juan strives for even-he-doesn't-know-what, while the devil
simply tries to keep people ordinary. Something about the "Life Force."
Reasonable people will disagree with one another about all this.
Society
for Psychical Research site with a special focus
on "the survival question".
Society for Scientific
Exploration. Link is now down. Warren Ong and I gave a paper for these
folks.
St Malachy's prophecies for the papacy. I noted that when John Paul I was coronated, he would be "pope of the half moon", and he lived for half a month afterwards. John Paul II is "of the labor of the sun", and was supposedly born on the day of a solar eclipse, buried on the day of another solar eclipse, and the first pope to go around the world.
Stars,
listed by name by Jim Kaler
Straight Dope
Cecil Adams
Stuart
Little. The authors wrote, "Stuart's journey symbolizes
the continuing journey that everybody takes -- in search of
what is perfect and unattainable. This is perhaps too elusive
an idea to put into a book for children, but I put it in anyway."
Theodore M. Drange
-- famous secularist philosopher and moralist, and
a personal friend. We are united by our commitment to
reason, common sense, and common kindness.
Teresa of Avila -- "The Interior Castle"
There is a legend that, in his old age, the great Saint Augustine of Hippo was walking on a
beach when he met the Christ Child. Augustine was told that he could no more fit God's
truths into a tidy little system than a child could put the entire ocean into a hole dug in the sand.
Supposedly Augustine never wrote again.
It is well-attested that shortly before his death, the great Saint Thomas Aquinas, whose prolific
writings remain the definitive statement for some Chrisitan denominations, had
a mystical experience while celebrating Mass. Afterwards, he said that compared with what
he had learned, everything he had written seemed like a couple of pieces of straw on the ground.
Aquinas never wrote again.
Teresa was reluctant to write, but did so under the orders of the Inquistion.
Even if you are hostile to Christianity, I think you will find her book worth browsing.
There is nothing here about the life of action, calls to serve one's
neighbor, or building a better world. Nor is this Teresa's subject matter,
though it seems to have been part of her own life story. You decide.
Theoi Project -- Greek mythology
Why Did the Chicken
Cross the Road? Answers From the World's Thinkers
Talk-Origins Why
the best-known creationists are wrong. Nice review of the
(in my opinion overwhelming) evidence for common descent
and an old earth.
Dr. Tammy Tucker
Volunteer Match -- high school buddy Crispin Perdue is their chief software engineer.
Who Am I In Christ --
scripture verses.
Who Named It -- great collection of medical eponyms. Highly recommended.
William
James: "The Varieties of Religious Experience" After the
Bible, my favorite book.
Monasticism
Little Portion Friary -- Episcopal Franciscans. I was friends with these folks during the 1980's.
Clear Creek Monks -- Benedicting
Bernard of
Clairvaux
Adrian
of Canterbury, celebrated on my birthday, is especially honored by students
in trouble with their teachers.
Rosary applet
Ramakrishna Mission -- old friends of mine;
supposedly the most active and effective private charity in India
Philip of Moscow
Man Stuff
"I might have been..."
I'm a fighter -- not a lover.
I prefer the freedom and ease of the single life. A wonderfully satisfying job, a good range of hobbies, and a great buddy system take the place of most "romance", "relationships", and family-of-generation.
No two men are the same. Most distinctive for me are (1) my very strong preference for the single, uncommitted life, (2) a quality buddy system; (3) a spartan lifestyle, owning only about as much as the average US teenager, and "home" being wherever I've slept the night before, and (4) my flattop haircut, with its macho, disciplined lines and angles.
I'm told that every culture has a small percent of men who like being professional military, always out on campaign, and never settling down. Ever since I was a small kid, I've thought this is the kind of guy that I'm genetically programmed to be. Comparing notes with career soldiers has satisfied me that I'm correct.
My parents were wise enough to raise me to be a man of peace. My war is against disease and ignorance, and my comrades-in-arms are good men and women across the various spectra.
I've worked hard to overcome shyness. The most important thing for me is simply being one of the guys, being able to be a friend, to like and be liked by my peers. There's occasionally been romance in my life, but I've been unwilling to give up my privacy or freedom even for the enduring love of any of several fine woman.
With other guys, I've found that my limit of comfort is a bearhug, and that only with close friends. This was one of the first things I learned about myself in college, and it's how I've been ever since. And for me, friendship's about bringing a bunch of good guys together, rather than forming couples. I've discovered that lots of guys who share my hobby interests -- working out, programming, skydiving -- are the same as me.
My best all-male experience (by far) has been as a perpetual college fraternity man, part of a group where all the members are bonded. As a Christian-based, non-hazing college fraternity, there's a tremendous amount of warmth. I'm very fortunate.
This is just what has worked best for me. I think a lot about how great it would be to have a successful marriage with a very special lady. It'd be a total restructuring of my priorities, and I'm happy with my life now, but I'm still open to the possibility. I won't pair-bond with a guy, nor could I imagine a life of acceptable quality without a buddy system. Different people tell me widely different things about what all this "makes me" in terms of my "identity politics". Anything you want to call me is fine.
Maybe you'll find something you like on this selection of guy-stuff links.
By friendship, you mean the greatest love, the greatest usefulness, the severest truth, the heartiest counsel, and the greatest union of minds of which brave men and women are capable.
Jeremy Taylor
Anglican thinker
Alexander
the Great Not mentioned at this site is that (according
to my reading) it was Alexander who made it fashionable for us men to go
around clean-shaven.
Angels
In art, they
usually appear androgynous. In the experiences of some of the
mystics and visionaries( they show the same gender dimorphism as we do,
only more so. I hope it's that way....
Lambeth Resolution
on Sexuality -- 1998. What all the fuss
was about back then. Most of the Anglican bishops "believe that abstinence is right
for those who are not called to marriage." (I might have replaced
"right" with "best" or "the ideal", and defined my terms more clearly --
even the most conservative
partisans in the Episcopal church simply ask that unmarried people not "go all the way".
The web is constantly changing. Even my longtime favorite site has started posting x-rated stuff and I've dropped the link. Let me know about any problems with these sites.
Adolescence -- guide by a mainstream Christian. "If you live
in a male body... you have to learn how to drive it!" This is the clearest single site I've seen.
Barry King, photographer
Beautiful Women -- Tommy Edwards photography. No pornography.
Beetle Bailey his creator, Mort Walker's
site for support of the national cartoon museum.
Beetle Bailey
Beetle
Bailey "a typical American boy from Kansas City, Missouri".
Benedictines
June 23, 2009 Letters
Kansas City Star
1729 Grand Blvd.
Kansas City MO 64108
Fax: 816-234-4940Star readers know Beetle Bailey and his friends as characters in a comic strip that has run since 1950, and enriched my life for half a century. In this microcosm of humanity, there is sorrow without bitterness, conflict without hate, laughter without ridicule, and a sense of right and wrong without any political agenda. The characters are types, but the daily events and camaraderie are forever fresh. The gentle tribute that the strip pays to our military is a hope for a world at peace.
Readers may remember that both Beetle and his creator (Mort Walker, who still works on the strip) were born and raised in Kansas City. Please keep this gem of our city’s heritage in our newspaper.
Ed Friedlander MD
Kansas City University of Medicine and Biosciences
816-283-2208
Click here for Mort Walker's gracious reply.
American Association of Blood Banks. I usually donate at the Kansas City Community Blood Center. I donated my hundredth unit in August, 2007. It is a big turn-on for me. | My Hundredth Unit |
Boxing. Here's a tough one for the medical ethicists. The health risks are real but unpredictable. In particular, I believe that the health risks of amateur boxing have been exaggerated by other physicians. Some people, especially male teenagers, are going to want to box regardless of what we say. The benefits are enjoyment and the power of self-defense. The best way to avoid being hurt and to be able to live peaceably is to be willing and able to hit back effectively. This is most literally true in the milieu that produces most boxers. Should physicians push for a ban on boxing? Should we refuse to screen and care for boxers? I say "No" to both, and support amateur boxing as a ringside doctor. Many other reasonable people will disagree. |
Canada's Wrestlers
.
A long-time trainer of elite athletes, he owns Jim's Gym in Canada. |
Carl Thorne-Thomsen Tribute -- well-deserved. Carl was the son of my high-school English teacher
Chad -- internet friend and lay minister in training
Dirty Harry Goes to Church
Five Dollar Fine For Whining -- Geezinslaw Brothers
Friendship
in the Classical World
The History and Nature of Men's Friendships
The Lost Art of Buddyship
False allegations of child abuse
When it has occurred, child abuse is a terrible thing. When
it has not occurred, and you are an innocent adult
whose life is being ruined by
misguided do-gooders, I might be able to help you. I take some cases
pro-bono, and never charge for an initial conversation.
Francis Marion -- considered the founder of the US's special forces.
Also here.
An early biography. The Mel Gibson movie "Patriot" is about
Francis Marion, though he has been renamed and a few details of his life altered
to please contemporary audiences.
Francis
Marion -- another biography by a contemporary.
This account from a contemporary
who actually knew General Marion indicates that he was anything but
a malicious bigot.
Link is down: Guy
Fawkes Day Celebration Rituals Includes instructions on how
to make a straw dummy of unsuccessful terrorist
Guy Fawkes. English children, instead of
saying "Trick or Treat" carry the dummy in a wagon and say "A penny
for the Guy?" The term has (understandably)
come to be applied to all adult men ("guys").
Lifetime friend Hank Heidt now has a family and works at Stensat. He designs and publishes on picosatellites.
Hugs.
Jim Sharp |
Skydive action photos |
Jim back in 2000. |
Scuba action photos |
Jimmy Kimmel -- has a sense of humor, especially about the male experience
Joel Douthat, one of my house
and exercise buddies
in Tennessee, 1984-6. A thoroughly good guy.
Jon P. Jarow, MD. When we were in medical school, "Funky Jon" was a beer-and-chess buddy and one of the best-liked guys on campus. Now he's one of the nation's leading andrologists. Great work and thanks, Jon! |
Mark T. Hash, DO shared my home for a while in Tennessee. His link is now down.
"Not from Adam's brain, to think like him,
or from his foot, to be subject to him, but from the rib,
to be closest to his heart."
Pictures, humor, no pornography. By a Rutgers student.
Li'l Abner
Pirates!
Institute on Religion and Public Life
, sponsors of the Ramsey Colloquium.
There
are legitimate and honorable forms
of love other than marriage. Indeed, one of the goods at
stake in today's debate is a long-honored tradition of
friendship between men and men, women and women,
women and men. In the current climate of sexualizing and
politicizing all intense personal relationships,
the place of sexually chaste friendships and of religiously
motivated celibacy is gravely jeopardized. In our cultural
movement of narrow-eyed prurience, the single life of chastity
has come under the shadow of suspicion and is no longer
credible to many people. Indeed, the non-satisfaction of
sexual 'needs' is widely viewed as a form of deviance.
Like everything else from the Episcopalian Right (and Left),
this is one-sided and they don't
define their terms clearly.
And frankly, I don't see this as the business of the church.
But the Ramsey
essay has been very true to my own experience as an Episcopalian.
If your experience of life has been different, then you'll need to conclude
that I'm wrong.
Clean-living combined with tolerance still gets the best results,
at least for me.
Random Country-Western
Song Generator
Click here to see the author's friend, Dr. Ken Savage,
do it right.
"My database does not comprehend the dynamics of human pair bonding."
Rockefeller Chapel, on the University of Chicago campus. It was
here that I first identified myself, at age 17, as a mainstream
Christian.
Then as now, it seemed a reasonable decision. I based it on:
I have a very high regard for truth. If you can honestly say that your
experience has been different from mine, then you should conclude
that my decision was a bad one. But three decades later,
I have found no reason
think I was wrong.
Through the rest of a stormy life, this decision has made all the
difference. I'm no saint, but I find I have less to be sorry
for nowadays, and the help I've needed has sometimes come in the
most surprising ways.
Heaven begins in this life -- with a shifting of your personal
focus toward kindness, repentance, humility, forgiveness, and
trying (you won't succeed fully) to love others as Christ loves us.
Hell also begins in this life, with the decision to focus on greed,
sensuality, and/or hate.
Mainstream Christianity gives you very few rules to follow.
Instead, it's about a relationship -- like a marriage (the foremost New
Testament comparison, applied to the community as a whole.)
The doctrines that a new Christian accepts (partly on faith)
are only what's required
to make that relationship possible and meaningful.
And even the Biblical rules all seem to be for our own good.
Mainstream Christians are not afraid of supernatural beings,
and we do not try to manipulate or appease
them. We do not worry about performing ceremonies exactly right,
or pretending to have special supernatural insights or to know the future.
We do not dwell on the wrongs we've done, but we simply make amends where
we can. Maybe all this sounds corny today, but two thousand years ago,
this approach to religion was radical.
And even today,
Christianity's rejection of magic and superstition
frees us up to focus on treating other people well, and doing
what we can to build a better world.
You'll need to decide for yourself whether the Bible mandates
particular positions on stem cell work, sexual matters,
pacifism, or whatever
are tomorrow's topics. If you spend time with our scriptures (both Hebrew
and Christian), you'll discover the recurring themes.
Tyranny must give way to just government. Mercy is better than
strict justice, especially in private life. You must do what you can
to improve the lot of those truly in need. Every individual is of
great value and possesses an innate dignity. As corny as these ideas sound
today, they were radical when the Bible was written, and I cannot
find them clearly enunciated even in the great Greek or Roman philosophers.
Good people from Socrates to the framers of the Humanist Manifestos
have taught that when human beings are shown the right things to do,
they will do them. My experience of human nature, beginning
with my own, is that we still fall far short of being the good people
we want to be. I have given up trying to understand the Atonement
using human language. It cannot be that the Good Lord forgives a
debt only on the condition that it be paid, or discards erring children
unless they ask an innocent person to accept punishment, or overlooks
everything good about you if your theology isn't straight.
Instead, I would ask you to understand these explanations as imperfect
human language to describe a wonderful gift that nobody fully understands but that still changes lives
for the better every day.
Christian behavior follows from the human bond with
Christ.
In the Christian scriptures, the most common thing He asks individuals
is not "Let me rescue you", but "Follow me." And the sect's original
name for itself was "The Road." Life's a jungle, and Christians
have a Guide. The scriptural term that's applied to
the individual's relationship (rather than the community's relationship)
with our Lord is "Friend" (John 15:14) -- again, the few rules
exist simply for your own good and the articles of trust / faith
are simply there to make the bond possible.
As Christians,
we find ourselves turning to others in love, just as He first
turned to us. We find ourselves curious about, and grateful for, His
creation. We may choose whatever scientific and political positions
persuade us. Since genuine Christians actually care about other
people, our choices are most likely to be reasonable, humane,
common-sensical, and broad-minded. We have a duty to be accurately informed.
And in an imperfect world, we must make the difficult decisions as best we can.
(Mainstream Christianity does not offer the peace that comes from having
someone else do all of your thinking.)
The Golden Rule forces us to consider the
consequences of our actions, and this in turn forces us to try
to understand the world around us.
Do you think all this makes Christianity more difficult,
or less difficult, than the legalistic faiths?
In your experience, which type of religion makes real-life
people treat one another more kindly? My experience
with many different kinds of people has made it very easy for me
to answer this question.
Mainstream Christianity is not passive. I welcome
the modern trend in iconography to show the historical
Jesus as He really must have been -- a carpenter /
construction worker who was
physically fit, who did not mince words,
and who withstood torture
without breaking. Focusing on the passive virtues
("Don't enjoy / think / associate with thus-and-such")
is the Dead Sea Scrolls mentality. In today's
world, full of individual and collective human need, you'll find
mainstream Christians
everywhere, working hard, smart, and quietly to make it
better.
Even forgiveness, repentance, and humility are
the virtues of the strong. Think about it.
You've heard expressions like "He was strong enough /
tough enough / man enough / big enough to forgive..."
or "She found the strength / courage / chutzpah to change for
the better." There have always been many good non-Christians.
But forty-five years on this planet has taught me that the strongest
force for good in our world is the Invisible Church. Organized
Christianity is its outward and visible sign. The changes
that are the mark of heaven seem to begin in each life
following some contact with the Church.
I've seen enough to
make me confident that its tremendous power to change
lives and civilizations for the better derives from
the life, death, and resurrection of Jesus
of Nazareth.
I believe that some supernatural phenomena actually occur, and I
believe the major doctrines of
trinitarian Christianity.
I don't waste my time worrying about the unprovable claims
that divide today's major denominations from one another.
(In terms of "today's issues", I am not aware of any reason to believe
in "natural law", rather than common sense and the golden rule,
as the way to tell right from wrong.)
Many members of the Invisible
Church, especially today, simply look to Jesus as the great
ethical teacher and try to follow him. My own experience
has satisfied me that these people, too, are channels of
supernatural grace -- even if they do not (yet?) know it.
If most of what you have heard about Christianity is from
"multiculturalists" who blame us for all the world's past
and present evils, please
make a reality check. Before reliable birth control was widely available,
episodic ethnic conflict was an unpleasant fact of life.
Because Christianity promotes meritocracy, scientific inquiry, and
freedom from superstition, we tended to win -- and to try to assimilate
others. Read a few honest books on
anthropology or paleopathology and find out whether the pre-Christian era
was really more peaceable and humane than today. Read an some honest accounts of the movements to
end slavery, the movements to give women and minorities their natural rights,
the movements to provide evidence-based health care to all, and
the movements to treat children and animals humanely, and you will discover they
have been driven primarily by Christians.
If you know about Christianity mostly from hearing televangelists
or fire-and-brimstone preachers, you might get the idea that Jesus
Christ is our "savior" mostly from our being arbitrarily
and atrociously punished
after death just for acting like human beings.
This never seemed reasonable to me, and if it were true,
you'd expect to find it stated explicitly somewhere
in the Bible. It's not there.
I'm told that the Greek ψυχη
means as much "life" as it does "soul". Among other things, following Christ
as my Lord has saved me from wasting my life in vanity, greed, malice,
meaninglessness, whining, sensuality, and despair. It's made all the difference.
I'm told that in the afterlife, the Good Lord will treat
each of us
as we've tried to treat the people who couldn't do us favors in return.
And if it turns out that there is no afterlife,
I think the Christian walk is still the best way to live.
Warning!
There are good people across the political spectrum.
But almost all of the thoroughly rotten people I've met have
identified strongly either with ultraconservative religion,
or with
shout-and-pout left-wing politics.
You will find both kinds of
people presenting themselves as "the only genuine Christians".
You already know that they aren't.
Holy Bible Sketch Pad -- these are great
Some of the things I like best about the sport...
United States Parachute Association She also shares the strong family social
conscience, and is very active with the
American Association of University Women.
Chris's friend Kathleen
Brenniman. Age in a virtuous person ... carries in it an
authority which makes it preferable to
all the pleasures of youth.
Chopin's "Tristesse" Etude. Union Station, 2006.
Ed Friedlander discovered this sentence which
contains four A's, five C's, seven D's,
thirty-two E's, seven F's, three G's, nine
H's, fifteen I's, two L's, twenty-one N's,
nine O's, nine R's, twenty-eight S's,
eighteen T's, three U's, six V's, seven W's,
two X's, and four Y's.
Air Lambda Chi.
My friend and sometime skydiving buddy Tony Robbins
is building his own site and in the meantime
invites you to his favorite links
here,
here, and
here.
Skydiving. I'm wearing the red-and-black jumpsuit.
Many people have depicted Mary
of Nazareth in art. I wonder whether
this Dutch vision might look much like the historical Mary.
My house
buddies, Lewis Burton
and Bryan
Lee.
The friendship of a lifetime, BryGuy!
MenStuff
Men's Health Magazine
Men's Fitness Magazine
One of my life ambitions is to get a doctor-article
published on a fitness magazine. So far,
only rejections....
Link is now down: Mike Monfardini -- high school buddy turned champion wheelchair athlete. I am very, very proud of you, Mike.
Moby Dick
My favorite novel. The "Pequod" is a microcosm of humankind,
with every conflicting perspective on life. Ishmael survives
because (like me), he's able to see everybody's point of view.
No romantic (yuck) sub-plots either.
Movies For Guys
-- movie reviews from the male perspective
Natural Bodybuilding
All-Natural Bodybuilding
LostEye.com -- famous people who've survived the loss of an eye
Michael S. Usey -- mainstream Christian talks
frankly about sexuality. Link is now down. "Let your physical intimacy reflect your commitment...
save sexual intercourse for your marriage partner. Neglecting the sexual needs
of your partner is asking for trouble."
Robert
E(dward) Lee freed his slaves long before the
Civil War began, because he knew slavery was wrong. My
father is named for the general.
Rodeo clown school
Scott McMillan, my cyberfriend and a lawyer from San Diego, Clifornia
Shakespeare's Sonnet
129; for me, this pretty much sums it up. Both the
sonnet, and the fact that an adult male at the beginning of the
21st
century does not believe in making love outside of marriage, may
surprise you.
Soldier
-- Kurt Russell
with a flattop. I related especially
well to Sgt. Todd sitting just
outside, brooding and puzzled, while the ordinary people partied.
Sammy
Gravano as described in Underboss. A tragic
story of a wasted life, of unalterable choices and the web of lies,
weakness and treachery that underlies the so-called Honored Society. -- New
York Times. How I could have put Cosa Nostra ahead of loyalty to
my wife and my kids is something I will always have to live with...
All my life, growing up, I thought that people who went to school
and put their noses to the grindstone were nerds, taking the easy
way out. I know now that I was the one who took the easy
way, that I didn't have the balls to stay in school and try.
That was the tough road, which I didn't take. -- Sammy Gravano.
Subsequent events (April 2000) confirmed
my suspicion that Mr. Gravano was allowed to survive because
he was still engaging in massive criminal misbehavior,
and that his whole repentance was questionable at best.
Taser Video
83.4 MB
7:26 min
Click here to
see the author prove you can have fun skydiving without being world-class.
Terminator 3.
Travis Morgan -- gym buddy, skydiver, long-term friend --
has a new site to help ordinary folks catch computer misbehavior.
Decent Webcams
Yusuf and Zuleika --
the happy ending to the story of Potiphar's wife, as told by the Muslim
poet Jami.
ZDXi
also here.
Lots to remember, mostly good.
"They'll be glad they knew me." -- Eric Berne.
"The world changes, and we change with it." Their exemplar is
now Wile E. Coyote.
If miracles actually happen, I would ask God for only one miracle: that
I be made a good person.
Warning!
If you are considering becoming a Christian
or renewing your faith commitment, the most difficult thing
you'll be required to do is to love your enemies. You don't
have to be a pacifist or a pushover, but you do have to try,
insofar as it's possible, to return good for evil. Fortunately
I do not have any enemies. -- St. Anskar of Norway.
Red-Letter Christians -- non-Religious Right evangelicals. Focus is "sermon on the mount" rather than politics or doctrine.
Why jump out of a perfectly good airplane?
Because the door is open!
Missouri
River Valley Skydivers
Skydive Arizona
Arizona Skydiving
Skydive Elsinore
Perris Valley Skydiving
Christian Skydivers Association. Link is now down.
"Karyotype stereotype", in this case, the
XYY
man. (As with
all stereotypes, the reality of the XYY male
is somewhat different.) Halloween
1993 or thereabouts.
My sister, Chris Leone, got most of the brains and all the good
looks.
AAUW-IL
Dad continues to bicycle avidly
at age 88.
-- Sir Richard Steele
Harmonica man!
Getting awarded a bottle of "Sheep Dip" whiskey
by Class of '98 President Steve Parr.
Piano man.
Remember
the good times.
They
left us a legacy
that has touched our hearts.
Over Central Missouri
In Second Life,
I'm often at the Anglican church.
Many Episcopalians like to remember
famous Christians from the past. We are all one big extended family.
Lamyl Hammoudi,
former Algerian national kickboxing champion and my longtime friend,
trying out the new Cirrus. Lamyl plans a career in aviation.
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