Sometimes it is hard to tap into our spiritual selves or find time to nurture our intellectual curiosity. Here is a section that reflects on some nourishing materials from around the web and related media channels in order to get us thinking, get us feeling, and get us reflecting on the lives we are living in this big, beautiful world. **Some Adult/Mature Themes May Appear in Links and Other Attached Material**

Big Things have Small Beginnings

The above is a conglomeration of historical and pre-historical data that links geology with sociology and then with race and politics. The story tells itself through these pictures. It is, in one sense, not particularly relevant for those of us who don’t spend time thinking about politics in Alabama. But, in another sense, this points to the monumental importance of forces beyond our control and often beyond our awareness in shaping the world we now inhabit. And if pre-historic human settlements patterning themselves because of Cretaceous geology isn’t evidence of how little in-control we are….

Allan T. Georgia, M.Div., M.T.S., PhD