It's Ash Wednesday...........

and cultural symbol becomes a way to lob ichor at people.

FIND things to criticize people for. On an affirming holy day, at that.

I might get some later...
Maybe.

i haven't been to church since i was a kid & i forgot!

I've always found the imposition of ashes very comforting.

"Thus the amount of stardust atoms in our body is 40%."
"Since stardust atoms are the heavier elements, the percentage of star mass in our body is much more impressive. Most of the hydrogen in our body floats around in the form of water. The human body is about 60% water and hydrogen only accounts for 11% of that water mass. Even though water consists of two hydrogen atoms for every oxygen, hydrogen has much less mass. We can conclude that 93% of the mass in our body is stardust. Just think, long ago someone may have wished upon a star that you are made of."
http://www.physicscentral.com/explore/poster-stardust.cfm

I squeaked by with a D. I could regurgitate all kinds of information but understood little of it. The professor was a misogynist beast. Even though I obviously never became a physicist of any sort, I'm still glad I redid the course with a different teacher who loved the subject and communicated it well. I still like to read about it on a 'for dummies' level.

Enjoyed your post.

the fact that we're made of stardust is really cool

you believe it or not."

molecule that goes into the make-up of our bodies, has probably at some time or other
been parts of the bodies of every other living being -- whether human, animal or plant.
In this sense, we are all one.

and they were talking about that. i think the example was an atom on cleopatra's lip.

i'm not sure if it's on tv anymore.

if your library doesn't have it then they can probably order/request it from another library.

knew about stardust...

Not saying that I couldn't use some though.

I had to do some other things today that were unpleasant, but that carried me through to pseudo-pleasantness.

I don't go to church.

But I ate it anyway.

Many are regulars there throughout the year at the noon Mass; others made the special effort today, Ash Wednesday, at the beginning of Lent.
Probably many are like me - starting off with good intentions. My history of making through Lent with intentions completed is very poor. Maybe this is the year I'll do better.
Not planning to deny myself, but to improve both spiritually and even physically.
One day down.

Because I do not hope
Because I do not hope to turn..."


I lost interest in Eliot when I learned he'd converted to Anglicism and became a banker.

Sell-out to conservative commercialism gained him Laureate status, but cost him his soul.

And no, no symbolic smudges for this atheist.