This post was delivered as a message in Spring Friends Meeting on Eighth Month (August 11, 2024).
Today after meeting, Wendy and I are going to a small family birthday party, for a great-granddaughter who has turned seven.
That quiet gathering will be a very modest landmark in what has been a very intense and weird month.
For that matter, this last four weeks have been vivid pieces of a weird patchwork quilt that raggedly covers eight long years.
Or nine years actually. It began as I watched an almost surreal ride down a golden escalator. From there it set off an improbable clamor that reached its first peak in an earthquake on November 8, 2016.
Not a geologic earthquake, but a political and cultural shaking every bit as real. Continue reading Rebuilding After the Earthquake, and A Birthday Rainbow
I will do all that I can to see that President Biden is re-elected. Why? Despite my disagreements with him on particular issues, he has been the most effective president in the modern history of our country and is the strongest candidate to defeat Donald Trump — a demagogue and pathological liar. It’s time to learn a lesson from the progressive and centrist forces in France who, despite profound political differences, came together this week to soundly defeat right-wing extremism.
A defiant Delaware “Meh” to them all.
This past week produced a bunch of memorable events. Topping the list was the overnight political superstar status that’s been conferred on the state by lieutenant governor Mark Robinson, who won the GOP primary to succeed term-limited Democratic governor Roy Cooper. Not yet settled is the contest for the most apt nickname for the firebrand Robinson: hot contenders in the Alliteration Division are Repulsive,” “Revolting ” and “Repugnant,” with polls saying that one’s too close to call.
Joe Biden built his 2020 presidential campaign around the idea that “we’re in a battle for the soul of America.”. . .