Rick Warren and Obama

I didn't vote vote for Obama, but I can't help seeing him in a little more positive light after reading the article linked below about the response of Gay rights groups protesting his choice of Rick Warren to give the invocation at the inauguration next month:

http://news.yahoo.com/s/politico/20081217/pl_politico/16693

MM

Funeral Poem

I went to a funeral today and it reminded me of a poem I wrote several years ago: 

The Funeral Card

Nothing trumps hard

Like the funeral card.

It leaves no hope for another hand,

Not even a jovial, get-ya-next-time goodbye

To the others at the table from the losing man. 

A funeral sobers all with silent solidity,

Leaving us in impotent disarmament 

And toothless rage, 

As if we find the game is rigged

Just after all the money has been waged. 

Thank you God for funerals.

They teach me why I need to be saved. 

MM

Glorious Utah

Here are some pictures from a trip back to Utah last month. 

The first and third were taken from the trail up Mt. Loafer in Utah County, just east of Payson (If you look closely on the ridge line in the third shot, you can see the trail). The middle shot is a sunset taken from about 10,000 feet on the Sanpete--Emery County border: