hula hoops and hampster wheels

So I was raised Catholic by my loving and once very religious mother. I have since left the church -- (this happened about a month after I was confirmed and I was only confirmed for fear of being grounded.)

My dad was borderline agnostic/athiest and always joked that he was a heathan. With his passing -- I am now reassured that it really doesn't matter. It doesn't matter if you believe in anything or if you believe in everything. Relgion no matter what sect all tells the same stories -- has a similar diety or god for which to respect and frankly it's not my thing.

However -- just before my dad passed I attended my Great Uncle's funeral. He was a catholic convert -- converted for my auntie 60+ years ago (god I can't even imagine being married that long) And as you know, Catholics will have a Mass for everything -- for a wedding, for a funeral, for Sunday, for everyday actually... It's part of the tradition to have a long series of sitting, standing and kneeling crammed into one hour -- it's like aerobics for God.

So some things I do miss -- even though I don't believe in organized religon, heaven or hell, or the infailability of the pope.

I like bible verses, like the psalms or my favorite of all time: Corinthians.

• 1 If I speak with the tongues of men and of angels, but do not have love, I have become a noisy gong or a clanging cymbal. 2 If I have the gift of prophecy, and know all mysteries and all knowledge; and if I have all faith, so as to remove mountains, but do not have love, I am nothing. 3 And if I give all my possessions to feed the poor, and if I surrender my body to be burned, but do not have love, it profits me nothing. 4 Love is patient, love is kind and is not jealous; love does not brag and is not arrogant, 5 does not act unbecomingly; it does not seek its own, is not provoked, does not take into account a wrong suffered, 6 does not rejoice in unrighteousness, but rejoices with the truth; 7 bears all things, believes all things, hopes all things, endures all things. 8 Love never fails; but if there are gifts of prophecy, they will be done away; if there are tongues, they will cease; if there is knowledge, it will be done away. 9 For we know in part and we prophesy in part; 10 but when the perfect comes, the partial will be done away. 11 When I was a child, I used to speak like a child, think like a child, reason like a child; when I became a man, I did away with childish things. 12 For now we see in a mirror dimly, but then face to face; now I know in part, but then I will know fully just as I also have been fully known. 13 But now faith, hope, love, abide these three; but the greatest of these is love.
• I also like Hymms --I get to sing and no one gives me a dirty look...