the Simpsons by Matt Groening
Am I alert, awake and aware of God’s presence?I
It has become a point of pride to appear as a guest voice on The Simpsons. The usual pop culture suspects are well represented, but Groening often draws from a deep pool of literary glitterati as well. Alumni include David Mamet, James Patterson, Michael Chabon, and Jonathan Franzen. Even the notoriously reclusive Thomas Pynchon has “appeared” twice, but his animated counterpart always wears a paper bag over his head.
Groening has described the characters as “creatures of consumption and envy, laziness and opportunity, stubbornness and redemption. Just like the rest of us. Only exaggerated.”
SATURDAY, DECEMBER 17, 2022
“Advent is a time in which, instead of thinking about gifts for ourselves, we can give words and gestures of consolation to those who are wounded, as Jesus did with the blind, the deaf and the lame.”
Pope Francis
The Vibrant Channeled Creator 