It’s Memorial Day. Memorial Day for many means barbecues, maybe a trip to the lake. We’re far enough removed from war that it’s mostly become another excuse for a three-day weekend. Yes, we fought a war 10 years ago, but it was so quick it didn’t really seem like war, and it was undeclared. And our previous administration involved us in plenty of skirmishes, but that wasn’t exactly war either. And I know, to many of us Vietnam seems like it was just yesterday, just like the first Bush administration seems like it was just yesterday to me, but Vietnam was long enough ago that there’s an entire generation of adults who view it exclusively as an historical event–by the time I was born, we were out of there.
All posts for the day May 28th, 2001
Memorial Day: Thank a vet
Posted by Dave Farquhar on May 28, 2001
http://dfarq.homeip.net/2001/05/memorial-day-thank-a-vet/
Western spirituality isn’t as elusive as it may seem
And it’s Monday. I know what I talked about last Monday. This is gonna be kind of similar. I read Jonathan Sturm yesterday and he got me thinking. Jonathan linked to this great story, which Dan Bowman pointed me to late last week. But before the link, Jonathan said something else:
Posted by Dave Farquhar on May 28, 2001
http://dfarq.homeip.net/2001/05/western-spirituality-isnt-as-elusive-as-it-may-seem-2/