Ah, the tolerant left in all its unhinged glory. Compassionate and accepting of any and all who agree with them, ready to rise up against those who do not. Aren’t they sweet? Don’t go to the link if you have ef-word issues! :-) Hattip to Kelli, who linked to it in the comments section of Polipundit.com. I’m sorry, but it’s all so adolescent. When are they going to grow up, these folks who call us Nazis. Sheesh. UPDATE: Oh, look…now... Read more
Just wanted to shout out thanks to Captain Ed at captainsquartersblog for inviting me to participate in his weekly caption contest – it was great fun reading the responses and getting to sit in judgement! :-) As the Captain was the inspiration for my beginning my own blog it was a true honor to be part of it! As Liza Doolittle said to kindly Col. Pickering, “Oh, yer real good, thank ye, Capting!” Read more
Blogging will be very light to non-existant today. After doing a week with my son’s pneumonia and a weekend with S, I seem to have picked up an upper respiratory whatever, so I’m going to try to sleep/rest it away. I don’t care how I’m feeling tomorrow, I’ll be in that voting booth in the AM – voting to re-elect George W. Bush. Amen. UPDATE: Okay, so I dragged my disgusting self (I am a coughing, sneezing, hacking depository of... Read more
“I feel,” says one of my network news-writer friends as he observes his associates in full pre-election hustle, “like I am in India during the last days of the British Empire. We’re sipping tea and admiring those quaint little brown people pulling our rickshaws, not quite realizing they are about to overthrow us.”The networks, it seems, are feeling a momentum shift. Not toward Kerry. Or toward them. Comes the Day of the Blogger. Read more
Had a chat with a person from Australia who insists that Kerry will be a better president than Bush, although he admits that he cannot tell me anything Kerry has done in the last 20 years that suggests he would be good presidential material or – more importantly – CIC material. “Elections are about the incumbent,” he insisted, “if the incumbent has done a good job, you retain him; if he has done poorly, you fire him.” Well.Firstly…I just can’t... Read more
Since I am home tending to a sick teenager today, I’ve had time to think, catch up with some email and chat a bit with friends. Many of the commentators in my last entry on my brother’s illness left lovely thoughts, prayers and poems, and I am very thankful and moved (and quite humbled) by the generosity of these people who don’t know us from Adam and yet offer comfort. Bless you. (And belated public thanks to Andrew Sullivan for... Read more
Was discussing this report of a bin Laden sighting with my pal and dearest little brother in Christ, Greg. He sighed in exasperation and said, “What is this guy, Bigfoot? Sightings? Don’t they realize Bush is going to trot him out on The Tonight Show this Monday?” I needed that laugh. We’re all too edgy these days, and I’m not meaning simply my family and our situation with S. I have friends – both Republicans and Democrats – calling me... Read more
Likewise, the spirit also comes to the aid of our weakness; for we do not know how to pray as we ought, but the Spirit himself intercedes for us with groanings which cannot be uttered. Romans 8:26Inexpressible groanings seem to be the stuff of my life these days. My groans mingle with tears at the bedside of my brother as he slowly, slowly retreats into himself in these last days. I watch my brother, now in hospice as we have... Read more
Earlier, I wrote that I am in the process of putting together the liturgy for my brother’s funeral. That’s not just a hard sentence to write, it is a difficult task to set oneself to. It requires a willingness to say, “yes, I suppose this must be done, and better to do it now, when I am thinking clearly…” when one really doesn’t yet want to…quite…believe that the end is near. Choosing from an approved list of prayers used throughout... Read more
I wrote a few weeks ago about a beloved brother and said he was “dying by inches”. I was wrong. He is dying, not by inches but millimeters, and we have been told that we are now, truly, near the end. My grief for my brother (really my brother-in-law, but my husband’s family could not be more dear to me if they were my own, and so I choose to leave off that in-law crap) is rather different than the... Read more
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