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Monday, October 11, 2021

Fun Home by Alison Bechdel: The Book and the Musical

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  Two weeks ago I saw the musical "Fun Home" an adaptation of a memoir of the same name by Alison Bechdel.  A week later, I starte...
Saturday, October 9, 2021

Thinking and Feeling: The Inside, Outside Difference

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  The past and the future are infinite and meet at the moment we are thinking.  Our thinking can reach into infinity. A friend recently post...
Saturday, October 2, 2021

The Taliban are not Medieval

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  Chartres Cathedral During the flurry of worry as we abandoned an ally to barbarism, many commentators and social media "experts"...
Tuesday, September 28, 2021

Everybody Hates Jews

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Honestly by Bari Weiss, a new podcast  One of my favorite new podcasts is Honestly  by Bari Weiss.  She was a columnist at the New York Time...
Tuesday, September 21, 2021

Hunting Magic Eels and the Search for Spiritual Reality

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Hunting Magic Eels: Recovering Enchanted Faith in a Skeptical Age by Richard Beck  In one of my book groups, the one where we read and discu...
Tuesday, September 14, 2021

My Top 61 Books -- Giving me delight is all they have in common.

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  As a member of several book groups, I occasionally see a list of the top 10, 25, 50, 100 books of all time or some time or recent time.  O...
Wednesday, September 8, 2021

Veteran of Iraq, Afghanistan to Retire on September 11

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  Master Sgt.Pamela Bleuel (left) in Afghanistan In July 2009 I was pushing my bike toward a gap in the blast wall on Camp Adder, Iraq.  ...
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