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I Turn A Lot Of Stuff Down - Big, Big Movies, The Kind I Wouldn't Want To Go To The Cinema To See.

Today's Catholic Church Seems To Reward Authoritarian Personalities Who Are Clearly Ill, Violent, Sexually Obsessed And Unable To Remember The Past.

Facing The Darkness, Admitting The Pain, Allowing The Pain To Be Pain, Is Never Easy. This Is Why Courage - Big-heartedness - Is The Most Essential Virtue On The Spiritual Journey. But If We Fail To Let Pain Be Pain - And Our Entire Patriarchal Culture Refuses To Let This Happen - Then Pain Will Haunt Us In Nightmarish Ways. We Will Become Pain's Victims Instead Of The Healers We Might Become.

If You Look Closely At A Tree You'll Notice It's Knots And Dead Branches, Just Like Our Bodies. What We Learn Is That Beauty And Imperfection Go Together Wonderfully.

Im Not Really A Tropical Paradise Kind Of Person.