I am privileged to have been called to be an Orthodox Christian (however flawed and flabby is my soul). I became a Christian on Sunday evening, January 9th, 1994; and was baptized on the morning of the 16th. On the morning of Holy Saturday, 2014, I was chrismated into the Faith of the Orthodox Church.
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My screen-name, Starward-Led evolved from y c.b. handle, Starwatcher, itself the gift I was helped to receive by my First Beloved, Blueshift, just after dusk on Saturday, July 10th, 1976. The screen name has been inspired by my favorite Scriptures: Revelation 22:16 (foremost), with Matthew 2:2, 2 Peter 1:19, and LXX Psalm 8:3. It was also inspired by that experience on the Friday night becoming Saturday morning in July, 1974. MY ORTHODOX FAITH IS THE MOST IMPORTANT PART AND ASPECT OF MY LIFE. I hope to live long enough---if the Lord will so favor me---to see the entire year of 2027: its days and dates, beginning with March 1st, will correspond exactly to those of 1976---the most transformative year of my life. I pray that I may enjoy the personal significance of 2027 in full, to its very last night, as Starward-Led. I have used several other names on this site: 'Anthropos' for certain Biblical poems; Kyakuchuu for poems in Asian forms, and Starward/StarSpared/J-Called. These names, having been useful at one time, are subordinate to Starward-Led; following the example of the American Poet Nugator (1795 to 18151), who published his collected poems under his Latin appellation, but within its pages retained the use of subordinate pen names on some poems. Some of the poems will bear the stylized signature, Starward*Led, in which the asterisk represents my very amateurish love of astronomy since that blessed incident in July 1974.
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Constantine Cavafy's poem, "Very Seldom," describes my situation, and my hope for my Ad Astra poems.
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My Haigo (or Haiku name), Kyakuchuu, means "footnote" in Japanese.