Locator: 44853ARCHIVES.
The deportation story:
- journalists are missing the big story; and,
- at some point, if no other solution is found, just remember, "everything is bigger in Texas."
Houthi update, link here. First question: why has this taken so long? This should have been accomplished "day 1."
Oh-oh! Did Harvard open Pandora's Box for all the elites? This could be monumental. Link here.
Ouch! Did Airbus over-promise, under-deliver? Link here.
Really poor analysis! Blaming Somerset's demise on Trump. Link here.
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The Book Page
My book for the week:
- The Seven Storey Mountain: An Autobiography Of Faith, Thomas Merton, 1948, 1998.
Never quit reading.
I first came upon and read this book back in 2004 or thereabouts on the advice of a woman in Yorkshire of whom I had grown fond. My copy, a softcover, was bought from "Half-Price Books," probably in San Antonio, date unknown, for $5.99, currently available at Amazon for $20.99 but easily available for under $10 almost everywhere else.
My notes in the book suggest that I read it to the end, but again, I don't know exactly when.
Within nine pages of the book, in addition to the 23 pages of the introduction and "a note to the reader," I have already connected these dots:
- Thomas Merton
- WWI
- Gertrude Stein and Alice B. Toklas
- F. Scott Fitzgerald and The Great Gatsby, Valley of the Ashes, Flushing, NY
- Graham Greene
- rhubarb and my own mother (page 8)
- the Quakers
Wow, wow, wow -- his mother died in 1921; Thomas would have been five or six years old.
That year his father got a job at the Episcopalian Church in Douglaston, Queens, Long Island, NYC (where his maternal grandparents lived). At the time I am writing this, Sophia, Arianna, May and I had just joined St Stephen's Episcopalian Church in Hurst, just a couple of miles from where we now live.
Called to Common Mission (CCM) is an agreement between The Episcopal Church (ECUSA) and the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America (ELCA) in the United States, the church in which I was confirmed in Williston, ND, establishing full communion between them. It was ratified by the ELCA in 1999, the ECUSA in 2000, after the narrow failure of a previous agreement.
End of notes for now; reading the book.
