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Another morning of cool, wet weather.\u00a0 The beginning of October.\u00a0 No.\u00a0 Scratch that.\u00a0 The end of October.\u00a0 I recognize this fall weather actually; it comes to us courtesy of the climate that used to be Indiana’s.\u00a0 This is the weather pattern of my boyhood.\u00a0 Sunny, sometimes warm, sometimes not fall days, then rain drifting over into ice or snow with some cold, a January thaw that makes everything muddy and nasty, then a bit more cold and snow until March when the muddy, nasty part returns until spring.\u00a0 This weather pattern had a good deal to do with my move north, since I wanted stable seasons and in particular real winters.\u00a0 Now it seems the weather patterns I left have begun to follow me.<\/p>\n
The Liberal Spirit is on Ancientrails now, just look on the left side, all the way at the bottom under Ge-ology.\u00a0 This presentation completed a six part exploration of, first, the movement West of Unitarian-Universalism, and then the nature and future of liberalism, especially as it applies to matters often called religious.\u00a0 I like working in three parts because it encourages me to think longer than the usually 5-7 page presentation, to take an idea further, develop it.\u00a0 Not sure what I might do next, but I do feel a need to begin what my old seminary theology professor would call the constructive task.<\/p>\n
Constructive theology as an abstract idea involves the coherent development of ideas, ideas about the ultimate nature of reality, human existence and the forces that work on both of them.\u00a0 My notion of a Ge-ology, which continues to rattle around, make sense, but defy careful development is a significant part of where I want to go, but there’s a lot more to piece together.\u00a0 The whole notion has become a more and more pressing idea for me as I work in the Sierra Club legislative arena.\u00a0 It confirms what I have known now for some time.\u00a0 The representative democracy which serves our nation well at a conflict reduction level, does not work well when it comes to deep, systemic change.\u00a0 Its checks and balances, its partisan politics and its ephemeral nature make radical change not only unlikely, but almost impossible.\u00a0 This is by design and it does well at frustrating regional ambitions or the rise of a revolutionary faction, yet those same mechanisms also frustrate radical analysis, even in those instances in which it is so obviously needed.<\/p>\n
Upstairs now to our business meeting, still massaging our way toward Kate’s retirement, getting comfortable with the financial side and with our new life.\u00a0 Not long now.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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