Aluwir - AKA Brian H. Gill

Writer, artist, husband, father, grandfather, and Catholic: a faith I take seriously but not grimly. (A Catholic Citizen in America)

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Faustus: Good Angel, Bad Angel, Parma and Politics - A Catholic Citizen in America

A Faustian wish list and hellburners: exploding fire ships. Angels, real and imagined. Shoulder angel origins and not being anvilicious.

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COVID-19 and People Who Need People, Another Year - A Catholic Citizen in America

Glitches, unexpected issues and pandemic-prompted perturbations. It's been one of those days. But, in the end, a good one.

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Exoplanets, Iron, Evolution and Strange Geochemistry - A Catholic Citizen in America

Geochemistry, exoplanets, evolution, exotic minerals. Seeking extraterrestrial life and learning what to look for. A few weird and wonderful worlds.

Headings include:

* Life and Chemistry * Unearthly Rocks * * Granite: It’s Important * * Seeking Extraterrestrial Life: Pulp Fiction to Serious Science * Stars * Weird and Wonderful Worlds * Appreciating God’s Creation

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My Week that Was, and Wonderfully Weird Worlds - A Catholic Citizen in America

Weather this week in Sauk Centre, Minnesota. Noticing that COVID-19 is still around. Explaining why I am still writing about wonderfully weird worlds.

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Baptism of Jesus: Third “Aha!” of the Season - A Catholic Citizen in America

My two Christmas seasons, American and Catholic: putting yodeling pickles in perspective. Epiphanies and responses. Jesus and the best news ever.

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Wind Chill Warning, and Our Furnace is Out - A Catholic Citizen in America

My household is dealing with cold weather and a furnace failure. Meanwhile, our van needs repair. Other than that, things are okay.

Still, it could be worse.

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Wind Chill Warning, Weather Advisory, Health and Me - A Catholic Citizen in America

Changing plans when the weather changes. Taking care of my health, within reason, and practicing patience: or trying to. Making sense in Minnesota.

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Epiphany, the Magi and Me: The Big Aha! - A Catholic Citizen in America

Magi came to honor the newborn king of the Jews. Herod had other plans. Two millennia later, folks like me are still joining their great procession.

Magi came to honor the newborn king of the Jews. Herod had other plans. Two millennia later, folks like me are still joining their great procession. Headings include: * Language, Names and Records * Bethlehem’s Dead Boys * Philistines, Naaman, the Magi and Me * "...Our Life is a Journey...."

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God has been waiting billions of years for a lifeform to be able to study atoms and quarks and quantum entanglement to really appreciate how much painfully intricate effort he took to make the universe. Humans are finally there, but they think it’s all evidence that God must not be real.

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Writing prompts just got really real

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This isn’t even a writing prompt, this blog is just spitting straight truth now.

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- - - Well, not all of us.

But some, yes, granted.

Oddly enough, I’ve yet to see someone say that two plus two equals four, therefore God doesn’t exist.

Or denounce arithmetic because it uses Arabic numbers - that may have even more foreign roots.

But bear in mind that I have not thoroughly explored humanity’s crackpot fringes. Someone, somewhere, may have made those claims. ;)

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Jesus, Human on His Mother’s Side: the Incarnation - A Catholic Citizen in America

Jesus was and is human: and God. Some folks have trouble with the idea. I talk about the Incarnation, Gnosticism, and a little history.

Headlines include:

…The Light Shines in the Darkness – – –

Living in Love, Harmony and Truth: Or Not 

Gnosticism 

Anaxagoras and the Cosmic Mind – or – Arianism isn’t Aryanism

Making Sense

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James Webb Telescope Rolls to the Pad Aboard an Ariane 5 Rocket

Scheduled to launch on Dec. 25, 2021, aboard an Ariane 5 rocket, the James Webb Space Telescope is a large infrared telescope with a 21.3 foot primary mirror.

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About Me - from A Catholic Citizen in America

I'm brilliant, talented, on medication: and not your typical Catholic blogger.

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Caroline Larsen (Canadian, b. 1980)

Springtime Madness, 2018

Oil on board

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Big Planet, Wide Orbit, Unsolved Mystery: b Centauri(AB)b - A Catholic Citizen in America

b Centauri(AB)b, HD 129116 b, is among the few imaged exoplanets. Its size and wide orbit around a pair of massive hot stars is hard to explain.