Ateh gebor leolam Adonai.

Or Ambassador Garnet L. Alexander.

Whichever, I'm still Agla.

On the fifteenth of May, anno domini 1989, in a small hospital in London, a particular person entered the world. Ever since then, he has been wandering around, thinking a lot, eating tasty food, and quietly being unconventional. He is glad to meet you, too.

Philosophies

“When you wake up in the morning, Pooh,” said Piglet at last, “what’s the first thing you say to yourself?”
“What’s for breakfast?” said Pooh. “What do you say, Piglet?”
“I say, I wonder what’s going to happen exciting to-day?” said Piglet.
Pooh nodded thoughtfully.
“It’s the same thing,” he said.

-A. A. Milne, Winnie-the-Pooh

They had had many strange adventures on this river and had brought home many new friends. Moomintroll’s mother and father always welcomed all their friends in the same quiet way, just adding another bed and putting another leaf in the dining-room table. And so Moominhouse was rather full-a place where everyone did what they liked and seldom worried about tomorrow. Very often unexpected and disturbing things used to happen, but nobody ever had time to be bored, and that is always a good thing.

-Tove Jansson, Finn Family Moomintroll

When you turn the corner
And you run into yourself
Then you know you have turned
All the corners that are left.

-Langston Hughes, Final Curve

seeker of truth

follow no path
all paths lead where

truth is here

-e. e. cummings

A Prayer

Almighty Lord, who is responsible for the evolution of the platypus and the kiwi; who is greater and stranger than the mind of any mortal may conceive; great Lord of Weirdness, we pray.

Let us be Weird loudly and joyously.

Give us the strength to ignore the barbs of the ignorant; let us never be content to be pigeonholed. For we are Your children and creations, glorious in oddness.

Give us also the strength not to freak out when we see someone different to us; allow us not to be isolated from our fellow because they do not fit our definition of 'normal'. Let our definitions of virtue be centred around kindness, honour and integrity, not around conforming to a one-size-fits-all pattern.

For such is Your love that You created the world full of wonders, the strange and the spare and the unconventional, a rich tapestry of beautiful confusion.

And such is Your nature, that You are Weirder than all things created.

Amen.