archive of an atheist’s writings on spiritual and religious topics — The Genesis ‘Sin of Sodom’ Says Nothing About Same-Sex Love queer reflections on religious meaningsmedium.com Nature & Not Nature: reflections on climate change and religious meaningsmedium.com We See Nature and We See God atheistic reflecttions on religious meaningsmedium.com Emptiness and Kinship: Buddhist and Native American reflections on religious meaningswadechambers.medium.com

Mail Box Edition — Author’s Note: I acknowledge the Wadawurrung People of the Kulin Nation as the traditional custodians of the lands and waters and skies where I live and work, and I pay my respect to their Elders past, present and emerging, as well as to all First Nations’ communities who significantly contribute…

Yellow Snapshot Challenge — Nature’s first green is gold, Her hardest hue to hold. Her early leaf’s a flower; But only so an hour. Then leaf subsides to leaf. So Eden sank to grief, So dawn goes down to day. Nothing gold can stay.Robert Frost Although I committed this engaging verse to memory while…

Photos from our garden and from nearby gardens. — Usually, I’m pretty fanatical about giving proper names for all plants pictured, but this challenge seems to focus more on appearances and aesthetics, so I shall restrain myself from showing off my botanical knowledge. But don’t hesitate to write if you’re a gardener.

Can Memories Recapture That Moment in Time? — remember her mother clomping down the stair to see the priest ferocious how I admired her mother fuck, fuck, fuck, fuck, she said mark her father no wolf but how wise an adviser, gentle, civil eye sir, walking to work see her sisters! each their own recall the highland house perpendicular…

Fifty Thousand Years of Australia Art — Author’s Note: I acknowledge the Wadawurrung People of the Kulin Nation as the traditional custodians of the lands and waters and skies where I live and work, and I pay my respect to their Elders past, present and emerging, as well as to all First Nations’ communities who significantly contribute…

Thoughts on Nature and Knowledge. Taken from my Wisdom Traces Archive. — Author’s Note: I acknowledge the Wadawurrung People of the Kulin Nation as the traditional custodians of the lands and waters and skies where I live and work, and I pay my respect to their Elders past, present and emerging, as well as to all First Nations’ communities who significantly contribute…

Australians and their Beaches — I acknowledge the Wadawurrung People of the Kulin Nation as the traditional custodians of the lands and waters and skies where I live and work, and I pay my respect to their Elders past, present and emerging, as well as to all First Nations’ communities who significantly contribute to the…

Another Name for God. Taken from my Wisdom Traces Archive, which was originally published on Hi.co. — I acknowledge the Wadawurrung People of the Kulin Nation as the traditional custodians of the lands and waters and skies where I live and work.