Yes! It’s okay to think about Valentine’s Day again. And so . . . Coming Wednesday: A Quaker Valentine Story Watch This Space . . . . Meanwhile, some items of research data on Quakers and love: In the mid 1820s, President Andrew Jackson rewarded a Philadelphia supporter by appointing his son Richard a secretary … Continue reading To All Romantic Friends: Coming Wednesday – A Quaker Valentine Story
Quakers, Nonviolence & ISIS: A Dead End? A Quaker married to a non-Friend pleaded for help the other day, because her husband was very skeptical that any non-warlike response to the brutal conquests of ISIS in the the Middle East would have any chances of success. She couldn’t think of any adequate peaceful response, but … Continue reading Quakers, Nonviolence & ISIS
Quaker Talk: Only Brief Messages In Meeting?? In the “olden days,” Quaker ministers often preached long & hard. A healthy sampling thereof was taken down, and can be retrieved if one looks hard enough for them. I’m grateful for this mostly neglected lore, as a means of reaching across time, and past the notions cast … Continue reading Quaker Talk: Should Messages In Meeting Be (Very) Brief?
So maybe I’ll look at Go Set A Watchman, and maybe not. But pending some more definite negative news, I’m much inclined to think that the one person safest from all this kerfuffle may well be Harper Lee herself.
Especially if they let her be the Boo Radley (rather than Scout) she recently described herself as: in which case, a book may come out, but she won’t, and no mockingbirds will die.
Still, I’ll keep checking the big knothole in that old tree down the block every time I pass it. Just in case.
“Trying to write laws that clearly are outside the constitutionality of his state, trying to override the entire judicial system, that’s very, very dangerous,” said Arthur Caplan, a New York University bioethicist who edited a book about the Schiavo case. “When you’re willing to do that, you’re willing to break the back of the country.”