tom waits

Down by the Riverside motel
It's 10 below and falling
By a 99 cent store
She closed her eyes and started swaying
But it's so hard to dance that way
When it's cold and there's no music
Oh, your hometown's so far away
But inside your head there's a record that's playing
Hold on

Jenny and Alan came by and we painted Jenny

an autumn poem?

Leaves gather at the edge of the field

Like old friends reassuring.

The confidence of summer

Has given way to the sobriety

Of all things becoming temporary and impalpable,

Throughout summer I command my days

Now I am a beggar-

Chilled and disillusioned

I find a path among the leaves

And Orion begins his arc overhead.

I think Andrew showed me this

places

the only thing I don't like about the west is how fashionable it is for people to fall in line. Even the rebellious young people swarm in trendy hives. Everyone should read a little Emerson. Get some transcendental in you.

a drawing

And your very flesh shall be a great poem.” Walt Whitman

End of summer

"Done layed around
Done stayed around
This old town too long
Summers almost gone
Summers almost gone"

Book of Abraham and Joseph Smith Papyri

http://en.fairmormon.org/Book_of_Abraham/Joseph_Smith_Papyri

So here is a link that very straight-forwardly answers a lot of questions that I have always had about the Book of Abraham. Its easy to find critics views online, but that is not very interesting. It is much more interesting to believe in something and find out why, than to go around discrediting everything difficult. Like George McDonnald says "Christianity has not been tried and found wanting, it has been found difficult and therefore left untried".

The only thing not mentioned here about the facsimiles being not really about Abraham I read Michael Rhodes idea that they could have been some things Joseph had in his collection that resembled closest to what he may have seen in revelation- and got published (thoses scenes are common it seems). It sold the Times and Seasons paper.

How I came to America