Robin’s Egg Blue
I observed robin nesting behavior a couple weeks ago. I think they nested in a place I can’t see from where I usually hang out in the back yard. We were in and outta town and I’m not sure what happened with that nest.
This egg is something my mouse found in the church woods. Or maybe somewhere else. It doesn’t seem to be in a nest. So maybe it fell out of a nest?
The church woods is across from the mouse/racc house. It’s a woods adjacent to a Black Lives Matter kind of protestant church. Which means anyone from the non-religious (but live by the Golden Rule) parts of my family would be comfortable living across from it. One of the reasons I hate Trump is because he does not live by the golden rule. He’s more an eye for an eye, tooth for a tooth kinda guy. Bad Orange Man.
A billion years ago I took an ancient history class in college and the prof called me out (silently) in that there was only one student in the class who understood what he was saying. I had written a paper or answered an essay question on a test, I fergit which. He didn’t name me but I knew I was the student he was talking about. The issue was whether or not Jesus was a “divine” messiah or just a person trying to be a messiah. I can’t go any further with that tonight although I would have “argued” for the second option. I don’t think we even know if Jesus was an actual person.
P.S. Trump is in no way, shape, or form a messiah.
May 1st, 2025 at 9:50 pm
In my ancient history class in college, the professor said that Jesus existed but that there was nothing indicating that he was the son of God. A charismatic street preacher elevated to god-like status–who says we’re not cultish?
May 2nd, 2025 at 7:43 am
The most interesting thing to me is how both you and Margaret had classes — high school and college — where instructors actually talked about Jesus in religious terms. I’m older (but not a whole lot) than both of you and I can’t recall any teachers in my public high school or public university addressing the subject. Maybe because I grew up with a lot of Jewish kids and it wouldn’t have been Kosher, so to speak, to talk in those terms, even theoretically. I’ll have to muse about that today.
Trump and Golden Rule? Ha! Here are his Rules, delivered to him by Roy Cohn, the Devil:
Number one: attack, attack, attack. Number two: admit nothing and deny everything. And rule number three: no matter what happens, you claim victory and never admit defeat.
May 2nd, 2025 at 4:41 pm
One of my college religion credits was fulfilled by a class called “The Historical Jesus,” which basically taught that yea, there is evidence that Jesus was a real person but that you can’t really prove the son of God part.