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Haven't posted in a while. Sorry. Not feeling all that communicative. Number of reasons.
Something I wrote and really sweated blood over I sent to a fellow I respect who is more than interested in the subject. He suggested I send it to a publication, the readership of which he particularly despises.
A face to face community I had relied on for some kind of human support on a weekly basis has manifested a real lack of appreciation for the only kind of contribution I have been able to afford to give it.
We are having the same consultations over brain surgery for our daughter that we had when she was six, with the same conclusion, which is no real resolution -- that she is better off living with a slight weakness and weird feeling on her left side than with the consequences of intervention. Now that she is twice the age I was told not to expect her to live beyond, there is no further talk of such matters, which is just as well...
I have attended a second session of something called School of Community run by the local Communion and Liberation folks. They seem like good peeps, spiritual, but well, Catholic, and even devout, though I hope not in the bad sense of the term... Time will tell. Not that I feel that I have all that much time, not for a full scale midlife crisis. The movement seems to have the same presence in the present papacy that the Legionaries and the Opie Dopies had in the last, and that is surely a change for the better. The founder spent a year in the States writing a thesis on Prot. Theol., and I can't help detecting a hint of Richard Niebuhr and even Paul Tillich in those of his writings avidly studied by his followers. The thesis hasn't been translated, and there isn't even a copy in the NYPL. (Even without knowing Italian, I could probably get a sense of who the important influences were.) Richard Niebuhr is a man I keep coming back to, though I may have to write something about his Big Brother Reinhold as the evil spirit of the now notorious Theocons.
I trust those of you who followed my political links have found them elsewhere. The Woodward book and the Foley scandal may have a salutary effect on the elections, though the Dems may be as in love with perpetual war for perpetual peace as the Repubs, and as tightly tied to the Jewish lobby, though not to big oil and the theocrats. They don't seem to give a ripe fart about our civil liberties either. The situation on the ground in Iraq continues to deteriorate, to the point that Fred Reed anticipates a mutiny, which would be ugly, especially if a first strike against Iran energizes the Shias. It might also trigger events in Pakistan that put atomic weapons within range of Israel in the hands of Islamicists. Would Bush then call upon the Hindu nationalists to use their own nukes to take them out?
I warned you that I'm not so cheerful. Sorry.
Something I wrote and really sweated blood over I sent to a fellow I respect who is more than interested in the subject. He suggested I send it to a publication, the readership of which he particularly despises.
A face to face community I had relied on for some kind of human support on a weekly basis has manifested a real lack of appreciation for the only kind of contribution I have been able to afford to give it.
We are having the same consultations over brain surgery for our daughter that we had when she was six, with the same conclusion, which is no real resolution -- that she is better off living with a slight weakness and weird feeling on her left side than with the consequences of intervention. Now that she is twice the age I was told not to expect her to live beyond, there is no further talk of such matters, which is just as well...
I have attended a second session of something called School of Community run by the local Communion and Liberation folks. They seem like good peeps, spiritual, but well, Catholic, and even devout, though I hope not in the bad sense of the term... Time will tell. Not that I feel that I have all that much time, not for a full scale midlife crisis. The movement seems to have the same presence in the present papacy that the Legionaries and the Opie Dopies had in the last, and that is surely a change for the better. The founder spent a year in the States writing a thesis on Prot. Theol., and I can't help detecting a hint of Richard Niebuhr and even Paul Tillich in those of his writings avidly studied by his followers. The thesis hasn't been translated, and there isn't even a copy in the NYPL. (Even without knowing Italian, I could probably get a sense of who the important influences were.) Richard Niebuhr is a man I keep coming back to, though I may have to write something about his Big Brother Reinhold as the evil spirit of the now notorious Theocons.
I trust those of you who followed my political links have found them elsewhere. The Woodward book and the Foley scandal may have a salutary effect on the elections, though the Dems may be as in love with perpetual war for perpetual peace as the Repubs, and as tightly tied to the Jewish lobby, though not to big oil and the theocrats. They don't seem to give a ripe fart about our civil liberties either. The situation on the ground in Iraq continues to deteriorate, to the point that Fred Reed anticipates a mutiny, which would be ugly, especially if a first strike against Iran energizes the Shias. It might also trigger events in Pakistan that put atomic weapons within range of Israel in the hands of Islamicists. Would Bush then call upon the Hindu nationalists to use their own nukes to take them out?
I warned you that I'm not so cheerful. Sorry.