Owner: Eve
Drought. “Red flag weather.” Dry lightning, careless motorists, and downed power lines.
All of these contributed to the fires ringing the valley I live in - which is now essentially a big bowl of smoke. Every surface outside is dusted with ash, and the reek of burnt grass is unavoidable. The light has a strange, dim [...]
12 years ago today, I got married in the northwest corner of my parent’s one-acre pasture, which had been arduously coaxed into a bower of birch and catalpa trees, bedecked with climbing roses and honeysuckle and lilies.
Ours was a medieval-themed geek wedding. Both our fathers used the occasion as an excuse to grow scruffy [...]
The Tree of Life
The Garden of Eden must have supported an immense, fantastical orchard. The Bible notes a huge variety of trees — indeed, every kind of tree that looked nice and produced something edible. There were two special trees featured in the Garden: the Tree of Life and the Tree of Knowledge of [...]
The Tree of Knowledge of Good and Evil
One of two significant trees in the Garden of Eden, The Tree of Knowledge of Good and Evil has been variously posited as:
Apple
Fig
Pomegranate
Tamarind
Grape
Iboga
Or it may just be a metaphor or symbol.
Whatever it was, God didn’t want his creations eating from this tree, and told them not to do [...]
