Yasmin Tabi and Jesse Simon Levitt were married Saturday evening at the Deity Lounge, an event space in Brooklyn.
An image is always enlivened and given eyes; the worshiper's delighted gaze at the deity engages the deity's awareness of the worshiper, and a channel of grace is formed.
Saramago, playfully stretching his chatty late style, pokes holes in the stated logic of the Biblical God throughout the novel, and the author's anger and despair at the deity's cruelty cuts through his endless uninflected sentences.
The producers' decision to recast "God of Carnage" with good actors of only medium wattage qualifies as a moderately bold salvo aimed at the deity that seems to be solidifying a grasp on the American theater with each passing year, the god of celebrity.
Since it is blessed by the priests at the deity's altar, the belt is supposed to protect mother and baby from harm.
I exorcised my rage at a deity that I believed violated my faith and deprived my lovely 16-year-old child of her life at the very flowering of it".
Other days, I clenched my fist in rage, shouting at a deity I didn't believe in, imploring him or her to do the deed for me in the way of a massive heart attack or out-of-control New York City bus.
We'd prefer He didn't, but our preferences for a patient-at-all-costs deity merely illuminate our desires.
