Very interesting – the conversation about the “Expectations” and the framework for the Wichita YAF conference gets more interesting by the day. Two recent communications are especially intriguing and revealing. First, yesterday a member of the Wichita Planning Committee contacted me, and asked if I really thought they and their rules were really unwelcoming.
This blog post is a mistake, or reflects one: In my phone calendar, January 20 is listed as writer Annie Dillard’s birthday. But that’s a mistake. Dillard will turn 78, deo volente, on April 30. Today is, well, just today. But in many of the theologies Dillard does not believe in, there are no mistakes. … Continue reading Annie Dillard: The Writer Closest to God?
Well, one of the messages mentioned in the previous post about age-related putdowns has already disappeared from the web. Gone, perhaps, but not forgotten. Here’s the text, mercifully brief but to the point, about: >> 1. An almost 70yo man decrying moral choices of youth–ironic. >> “Almost 70yo” BTW, is Tweet-speak for nearly 70 years … Continue reading YAF Wichita Update: The Case of the Missing Tweets
Wichita YAF Update: Well, there have now been two responses to the posts here questioning ground rules at the Memorial Day conference, here and here. In both, the one specific “rebuttal” was a disparaging reference to my age. (Which is 67, for the record.) Point taken, guys. What else ya got?
Wow! The 2011 baseball All-Star game is currently scheduled to be played in the Arizona Diamondbacks’ stadium. But with passage of the state’s new anti-immigrant law, there are now calls for baseball to move the game. Seems the NFL jerked its All-Star match from the state back in the 90s, when AZ was hoilding …out … Continue reading Holy Ty Cobb, Batman — That Ballplayer Looks Suspicious . . .