Let’s take a ride,
and watch with the blogs tonight
in suburbia…
Only three links here, but they’re all must-reads.
Sed Contra: A reader’s memories of Dorothy Day. Lots of awesome stories.
Reason piece on A Clockwork Orange and the Paris riots.
And: a beautiful idea–maybe an idea you should take up in your own area:
…Koleszar, with five of his St. Ignatius High School classmates, carried her casket into the funeral service and later bore it across a cemetery lawn to her grave, where they bowed their heads in prayer.
Then he went back to school, a bit changed by the experience.
“It’s a little strange at first,” said Koleszar, a member of a student group called the Pallbearer Society. …
…They attend funerals–one after the other. In the last two years, the volunteer student group–the only one of its kind in the region, according to local funeral directors–has helped to bury 42 men and women, most of whom died poor or alone or with few surviving relatives.
more (via Amy Welborn)