Things that God doesn't even notice

Athletes
crossing themselves
before taking their foul shots or
attempting field goals tricky dives fancy twirls
hail Mary passes heavy lifts gallant saves Lottery tickets
rolling dice card cuts sprinting ponies point spread game scores
Math test scores IQs class rankings SATs performance evaluations
community standings annual incomes Dow Jones Industrial Average Gross
Domestic Product globalization angst Cholesterol ratios bad hair days common
colds seasonal allergies influenza epidemics chronic emphysema terminal cancer
myocardial infarction sudden death infant mortality School yard killings heroin
overdoses drive by shootings racial conflict ethnic cleansing Abusing priests
disintegrating families corrupt politicians collapsing infrastructure WMD
shock and awe Tsunamis hurricanes earth quakes draughts wild fires
global warming radioactive waste famine species loss Dead Jews
Armenians Cambodians Serbians Croatians Rwandans
Darfurians Iraqis Evangelists profits jihadists
popes Sermons scriptures epiphanies
revelations fatwas
Prayers

Stanley's art appreciation John Lavery

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Now -- the cosmos and me

Bang,
energy
infinitely
expanding, particles
or waves, it’s not certain,
voided a black nothing. Lusting
attraction forced elemental marriage, molecular
gathering.  Gaseous worlds, clotting, exploding, flaming,
captured lesser spheres spinning in their influence. On one such
orb, cooling in its unique place, condensing gasses rained upon the surface,
conjuring ever increasing complexity. In this water world, solid masses drifted. In
the ooze, creating itself in its own image, the helical first, base pairs zippered, directed
invisible architecture. Tiny spheres begat tiny spheres, begat spheres of spheres, begat tubes
of spheres, begat tubes within tubes, begat swimmers, crawlers, flyers, runners, climbers. Tooth
and claw, the fittest, fastest, hungriest, sexiest and brainiest prevailed. They were fruitful and filled the orb and subdued it, and had dominion over the swimmers and over the flyers and
over every living thing that moved. Honoring various gods or various one gods, they
slaughtered the unbelievers, built monuments to various gods or to various one
gods, or to themselves. And unto themselves, they erected great cities,
devised great technologies, diversified great cultures. They
painted on cave walls, printed on papyrus, cast
in stone, iron, bronze and cathode, sent
texts bursts of ones and twos,
 all this so I can utter
 these words
to you,
now.

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Stanley's art appreciation Ancient Egyptian painting

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