A Liberal’s Admonishment to Liberals An analysis of the Manfred Wolf Column, This Time, This Place for January 2020 (c) Vernon Miles Kerr, vernonmilerskerr.com writersclass.net I previously featured one of Manfred Wolf’s earlier essays in this series of frank discussions with fellow liberals. See Here.. Dr. Wolf is concerned about how extremists within the movement are… Read More Opinion | A Liberal’s Admonishment to Liberals
Purpose and Reason: The Bible In Proper Perspective © 2020 Vernon Miles Kerr, vernonmileskerr.com writersclass.net A Reason It’s 5:58 am. I normally get up between 4:00 and 6:00 a.m., have my morning coffee and meditate. Sometimes my meditations turn into prayers, just in case God is also a person and I might get some insights… Read More Theology | Purpose and Reason: The Bible In Proper Perspective
The “I don’t know” of Agnosticism ©2020 by Vernon Miles Kerr, vernonmileskerr.com As a scientist of sorts, (i.e. a Software Developer and Computer Systems-Integration Engineer) I can usually suppress any of my emotional-swings toward religiosity with a healthy dose of skepticism. If there’s a “Show-me State” somewhere in the great-beyond, that’s where I came… Read More Philosophy | The “I don’t know” of Agnosticism
Boulder © 2010, 2016, 2020 by Vernon Miles Kerr, vernonmileskerr.com Quirky, busy little Boulder With its sprawling, yellow brick university And Nineteenth Centry business district, Spread out at the foot of the Flatirons. Those jutting stone slabs seem to grow out of Boulder Not visa-versa. They thrust upward beckoning the hikers, Promising untold vistas higher up… Read More Travels | Boulder
St. Louis © 2010, 2016, 2020 Vernon Miles Kerr, vernonmileskerr.com What on Earth can compare to the Arch? No superlative is adequate. Nothing prepares you for that first glimpse, No travelogue, no picture in the Nat. Geo. Soaring above the downtown skyscrapers, Its satin-silver face reflects The sky and clouds, And the river, That Old… Read More Travels | St. Louis
Tokyo ©2010,2016,2020 Vernon Miles Kerr, vernonmileskerr.com She is more than huge, she is blatantly contradictory. She’s American-ish, but Japanesey; Familiar but exotic; Traditional but wildly avant garde.; Savoring but guzzling; Giddily young but staidly elderly. Near Shinjuku station it’s girls in blue jeans And tiny kimono-clad matrons popping into Starbucks. This immigrant from Seattle sits… Read More Travels | Tokyo
Sky Enigma ©2020 Vernon Miles Kerr, vernonmileskerr.com A lot of us don’t appreciate, or have completely forgotten, how our world became what it is today. It began at the Winter Solstice in 2033. Someone must have noticed it around midnight GMT. That was when mobile phones started buzzing with notifications all around the world, continuing… Read More SciFi | Sky Enigma
