Laws Concerning Food and Drink: Household Principles ‘Lamentations of the Father’ by Ian Frazier Laws Pertaining to Dessert Rev. Max Coots, Minister Emeritus, Unitarian Universalist Church Canton, NY ‘For a Bountiful Harvest Of Friends’Let us give thanks for a bounty of people.For children who are our second planting,and though they grow like weedsand the wind too soon blows them away,may they forgive…

Shall we get spiritual? Whether or not we shall get spiritual is not  up to me; ot at least not just up to me! It may not even be just up to  you. It?s actually a little complicated to describe, but it?s much  more simple for some us to HAVE a spiritual experience than others.  Indeed, some of us don?t WANT a spiritual experience, thank you…

An atheist buys an ancient lamp at an auction, takes it home, and  begins to polish it. Suddenly, a genie appears, and says, ?I?ll grant  you three wishes, Master.? The atheist says, ?I wish I could believe  in you.? The genie snaps his fingers, and suddenly the atheist  believes in him. The atheist says, ?Wow. I wish all atheists would  believe this.? The genie snaps his fingers…

In an English cemetery we find this last thoughtful epitaph:  “Remember man, as you walk by,As you are now, so once was I.As I am now, so shall you be.Remember this and follow me.” To which someone replied by writing on the tombstone:“To follow you I’ll not consent . . . Until I know which way you went.”    Ambrose   Bierce, the…