I don’t make posts here too often. I will write more often on FB. Personal things, poetry, Shares with my comments, just like everybody. It’s like lots of my writing is for that group of people, and I don’t wish to garner a large following here on WordPress. I could write about lots of things. For example, yesterday I went for a few long walks. The first one with a MeetUp group of people. The other 2 alone. For my MeetUp walk, we met at Yaletown rapid transit station and left there at 2pm. The walk took us along the seawall to and through Stanley Park to Prospect Point, overlooking the First Narrows / Lions Gate Bridge at the entrance to Vancouver’s inner harbor. We would make pitstops from time to time, and pause to take pictures. From Prospect Point we then walked over the Lions Gate Bridge to Park Royal shopping centre, where we completed our walk with a meal inside the Osaka Supermarket.

I left there around 5:15 and took the bus back downtown arriving at Granville & Georgia a 5:45. I walked East to Britannia library at Commercial Drive arriving before 6:30 because I was going to another MeetUp: Choir practice at Wise Hall at 7pm. I always seem to be early when I go places because I’m afraid I will be late. For the walking MeetUp, obviously you have to get there before they leave at 2pm. But I got there before 1:30. So, I walked around the neighborhood and took a few pictures. And made a pitstop of my own at Yaletown Community Centre. Wise Hall is only a 5 minute walk from Britannia library, but I noticed they were putting out books for sale by donation, that I guess they found no need for any more. I bought 5 and gave them $15. One was a book of poetry, a 2nd a book of Canadian literature, one by Richard Dawkins, the 4th named Caesar Against the Celts; the 5th named “Medicine Woman” by “New York Times Bestselling Author” Lynn V. Andrews.

Andrews is a First Nations (aboriginal) woman. “Medicine Woman is the autobiographical account of a woman’s search for identity in a Native American culture….” (San Francisco Review of Books) As you can see my reading appreciations are eclectic. I love things about other religions and people living in other belief systems than my own. I find them intriguing and I often take something away to add to my own acceptance of the World. Different people see things so differently from each other – based on their life experiences and the societies they grow up with. A brief look at Christianity, for example, says that anyone who isn’t a Christian is pagan. A lot of religions believe in a similar exclusivity. But you add up the total of all the beliefs and you arrive at a great swath of knowledge and information.

My opinion is that no one religion is right or wrong. They lend to the whole. In a way there are as many “religions” as there are people. Because no two people believe exactly the same thing simply because they are individual / different people, with different backgrounds and experiences. Even any two Christians (I am closest aware of them) do not believe exactly the same thing as much as they might say otherwise. Otherwise, why would there be, for example, Bible studies to try and figure out and determine and agree on what it says, never to completely reach that end?

It’s exciting. Two of the earliest gods were the Earth and the sky. The Earth the symbol of fertility because that is where we find our food and crops and therefore female. And the sky which provides the Sun and the rain to grow those crops like perhaps semen, and therefore male. Just for example. I will leave you there…..