SPR MA Mary Strachan Scriver Gotta Be Sometime One always has to happen sometime — the moment of truth when you know death here is and anything could happen.. I fell at 2 am on two…
LIF SPT MA Mary Strachan Scriver A NEXUS FOR SURVIVAL Sex/love interacts with terrain/travel. The first is often used as a marker for success which is how it became entangled with profit. The…
MA Mary Strachan Scriver A CLEAN SLATE I have no idea how many days I’ve survived in spite of sciatic, near-paralysis, profound cold, but it has been work. More about this later…
MDA GEN LIF MA Mary Strachan Scriver THE BINARY OF THE SPECIES Fascinating as my fall has been, I need a break from the subject. So here’s my theory of how sex and love evolved from the beginnings of…
SPR AI MA Mary Strachan Scriver UP AGAINST IT Building inspectors don’t get no respect even though our wealth and safety depend on them. The least likely mine of wisdom I’ve acquired…
AI MA Mary Strachan Scriver EARL OLD PERSON When the Blackfeet reservation on the Montana side was divided into allotments, two areas were preferred by old-timers because they were…
MA Mary Strachan Scriver WORKING ON THIS. . . “The English “work” has an Indo-European stem werg-, via Greek ergon, meaning deed or action without punitive connotations; and Latin…
MA Mary Strachan Scriver Blurts and Quirts Every emergency is a source of info. In my case, how dependent on others I am. The plumber can’t come until morning because the extreme…
MA Mary Strachan Scriver DARRELL ROBES KIPP’S FUNERAL MASS A REBLOG FROM PRAIRIEMARY.BLOGSPOT.COM November 25, 2013
MA Mary Strachan Scriver CIRCUIT-RIDING AS ORDEAL When Emil Gudmundson and Russell Lockwood set up the UUMontana Ministry circuit-riding structure (1982–85) it hinged on my willingness to…
LIF SPR AI MA Mary Strachan Scriver Death Faces Overpopulation The quote below comes from “Wild Dog Dreaming: Love and Extinction” by Deborah Bird Rose, and addresses the tragedy of the anthropocene in…
MA Mary Strachan Scriver STORIES ABOUT SPOTTED EAGLE Myths and assumptions are more powerful than reality, but in other ways they completely miss the real story. For instance, looking up the…
MA Mary Strachan Scriver APRIL, SNOWING Late Spring snowstorms create a mood that suits my indignation at the state of the world and my impatience with ten cats who think my…
HUM MA Mary Strachan Scriver EPISODIC, SEQUENTIAL TIME There was once a poet who briefly taught in Heart Butte who was obsessed with sequence. He insisted on the topic with the kids, which made…
TCH HUM SCI MA Mary Strachan Scriver SEA CHANGES SEEN AS THEOLOGICAL The real consequences of shifting social thought are illustrated in people’s lives, maybe never more that in the lives of ministers — who…
HUM SPR MA Mary Strachan Scriver When I was in seminary I lived in a large old house where students were each allotted a bedroom… He did not address groups. He went to the temple and sat waiting until someone came who had questions and gifts. They presented both and…
ART SPR MA Mary Strachan Scriver SCRIVER’S RELIGIOUS ART Bob Scriver ended up doing religious sculptures in a roundabout way. One could say that the first Christian statue he did was a cement…
LIF MA Mary Strachan Scriver WORK Since I was a little kid, I’ve wondered what “work” was. My dad was on the road all week as a representative for Pacific Supply Wholesale…
ART HUM SPR MA Mary Strachan Scriver SCAFFOLDING FOR THOUGHT ARCHITECTURE Scaffolding for a new “religion” : a check list. But it’s not about religion in any way people are used to. There is no “denomination”…
HUM LIF MA Mary Strachan Scriver CHILLED, BABY. It wasn’t until I was trying to explain why I wasn’t giving her proper understanding with my predicament with sciatica and why I refused…
MA Mary Strachan Scriver WORK OVER TIME FIRST, there is the work you need to have done in the past to prepare for now as best can be figured out looking back.