A few months ago a woman asked me, “Are you churched?” I answered, with the unwelcome shame that my culture has imposed, “No, Ma’am, I am not.”

Nor am I mosqued, nor synagogued, nor tabernacled, nor shrined. But today I am Saved. I acknowledge that the best word that described Life-Now and Me-Here is Miracle.

Sal: salt. Vat: big container. Ion: superfluous electron. That’s Life.

Live long and happily, Friends!