So ask yourself now: Can you forgive her If she begs you to? Ask yourself: Can you even deliver What she demands of you? Or do you want revenge? But that’s childish, so childish! (But that’s childish, so childish!) –“Can You Forgive Her?” from Very, by the Pet Shop Boys My friends have been helping…
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Forgiveness, part two
Filled with fear Possessed by pain Bitter tears I’m crying again, no I don’t know when I lost the will to live And I found the will to forgive — “Forgive to Forget,” from Deep Natural by Michelle Shocked One element of forgiveness that I skimmed over yesterday involves time. An inescapable element to temporality…
Forgiveness
Sunday, May 26, 2002 ( 4:35 PM ) DELMAR: Preacher said my sins are warshed away, including that Piggly Wiggly I knocked over in Yazoo! EVERETT: I thought you said you were innocent a those charges. DELMAR: Well I was lyin’ – and I’m proud to say that that sin’s been warshed away too! O…
Catastrophic hardware failure
The Short Version This blog will in time be replaced by alonger, more detailed version of the story. This is the barest outline. First, I have to thank Dorothea with all the firm, orotund, look-her-in-the-eyes genuine gratitude a friend can muster (I’m not blogging each permalink because she’s doing this in segments, and each is…
10 March 2002
No Particular Place to Go David Weinberger has been thinking in public again, giving us plenty to chew on. I’m with ‘most everything he says. I had been wondering for a while before I read these remarks, though, about the applicability of spatial metaphors to the Web. I’d been tempted to reject the notion altogether…
9 March 2002
Aaargh! That was the sound of my button being pushed, hard. Mark Woods quotes a very short essay by Alex Burns about Elaine Pagels from disinformation, the closing words of which are, Pagels’ magisterial and witty writings reveal an important neuro-political lesson: Salvation must be found from personally mediated truths. Heed her call and remember.…
8 March 2002
Sweet Home Chicago Well, it’s Evanston, to be precise, but it’s home and Robert Johnson never wrote about Evanston. Uneventful travel, except I’m exhausted and a couple of days behind. My talk in St. Louis went very well. I was acquainted with a number of people from the Church of St. Michael and St. George…
7 March 2002
What He Said Me too.
6 March 2002
On Cussing Since my reluctance to use strong language has become a topic for some amusement, I will confess to you all that just a moment ago, when WordPerfect quit in the middle of my editing my newly-revised, started-over-fresh talk for tonight, I cut loose with a vivid and emphatic one. RageBoy would be proud.…
5 March 2002
Friends Mike Sanders has invited us to converse with him about principles, the meaning of life, the creator (if any), and the soul. “Keep your answers to twenty-five words or fewer, class.” I have too much to say on all these topics, too much to say. A number of sharerers in bloggery have unveiled deep…
4 March 2002
Not fade away Heartfelt thanks to wood s lot for bringing us a daily serving of mind food. I was especially nourished by the Manuel DeLanda and the Olympic beer riot essays–but you bring us more good thinking than I can begin to digest. ( 10:11 AM ) Reading and Faith On Saturday, David Weinberger…
The Dog Ate My Blog
How rude of me! A few days ago, Tom Shugart answered a non-congratulatory blog of mine relative to his account of true Web-selfhood. At the end of his ruminations, he politely asked, “So, instead of ‘true self,’ perhaps I should have said ‘more vibrant self.’ Would that get me off the hook?” I ought first…