tears know me

 not as cascades 

but as sighs

as moist corners

of leaking glands

yearning to scrub 

my eyes clean

clear of crusted years

of dirt-mound mem'ries

and dulled emotions

which like muzzled dogs

strain to romp and bark

with a freedom found

chiseled in the heart 

*Thoughts of Alan Jones:

  -We have a tendency to make ideas into things, and so we're tempted to take our way of believing or our way of thinking and imagine that our way is the only right and sane one there is.  We might  add our own anathemas against those who claim that the "ideas" of Marx, Darwin, Freud, Jung and Uncle Sam have real existence!

  -...the Church easily gets seduced by the values of the prevailing culture.

  -The Church is always in need of ...followers of different ways of believing, whether they be prophets, contemplatives, or people with a special vocation.