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Four Articles and a Poem

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Weekly, I will post four articles that I found significant, meaningful and a poem. Our lives are enriched by seeing better. One article likely will come from the world of photography, a discipline that is about seeing. Another article will come from the world of technology, hence seeing something of the future. Another article will take up some aspect of our life together, seeing more clearly the other. Another article will be directed to faith, seeing the unseen. Finally, the weekly post will conclude with a poem, because poetry is about seeing words whose arrangement allows us to see anew. What is Code? If you are reading these words, unless someone printed this out on paper for you, it is by means of code. My typing on this ubuntu operating system has created code that is discernible to the pad, phone, laptop, or desktop where you read these words. How it does that remains a great mystery to me. We were the first family I knew to have a computer at home. It was Radio Shack...