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Brian H. Gill
I was born in 1951. I'm a husband, father and grandfather. One of the kids graduated from college in December, 2008, and is helping her husband run businesses and raise my granddaughter; another is a cartoonist and artist; #3 daughter is a writer; my son is developing a digital game with #3 and #1 daughters. I'm also a writer and artist.
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Tag Archives: angels
Advent: Remembering, Being Vigilant, Doing My Job
Quite a bit has changed over the last couple millennia. And some things haven’t. One of the things that hasn’t changed is human nature: which is good news and bad news, depending on how I look at it. I’d started … Continue reading
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Unidentified Phenomena, Being Human, Taking Reality As-Is
NASA’s “UAP Independent Study Team Report” used the words stigma, destigmatize, or destigmatizing about a dozen times. At 31 mostly-text pages, that works out to one of those words every two and a half pages. That’s nowhere near the frequency … Continue reading
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Advent 2022: Remembering the Big Picture
My culture’s Christmas season begins with Macy’s Thanksgiving Day parade. Our traditionally-frenzied holiday shopping season does, at any rate. That’s not a particularly good thing, considering what stress can do to folks. On the other hand, America’s shopping frenzy inspired … Continue reading
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My Church in Sauk Centre, Minnesota: Vandalized
First, the good news. As far as I know, nobody got hurt during last weekend’s incident. That much I could tell from what wasn’t in a metro area station’s news item. “Charges: ‘Very intoxicated’ man admits to vandalism at Sauk … Continue reading
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Faustus: Good Angel, Bad Angel, Parma and Politics
(From Ken Eckert, via Wikimedia Commons, used w/o permission.) A year and three weeks ago, I started writing about Marlowe’s “Faustus” play: “The Tragical History of the Life and Death of Doctor Faustus.” Three months later, I’d finished three more. … Continue reading
