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August 15, 2024 —
I’ve been interested to note that the Republican Vice-Presidential candidate, J. D. Vance, is frequently described as “Scots-Irish.” I was unfamiliar with that term or the people it described until, during seminary, I served an internship at several small Presbyterian Churches in the Susquehanna Valley and Catskill Mountains of southern New York. There I met... Read More
August 13, 2024 —
I spent some time yesterday with two older (even older than me) guys from church. They jointly own a beat-up flat-bed trailer that they use for all sorts of things, frequently helping people from the church and the community with various projects. They were helping me move a large-ish tree. We also stopped to load... Read More
August 11, 2024 —
The signs of late summer are many here in the Wallowas. The berries on the Mountain Ash tree are turning orange. Robins feast on the intoxicating berries, which leads to some reeling redbreasts on the grass. In the mountains the thimble berries are bright red and tasty. The mosquitoes are mostly behind us now. The... Read More
August 6, 2024 —
With the announcement that Tim Walz would be Kamala Harris’s running mate, I went back to listen to Ezra Klein’s interview with Governor Walz which came out last week. I was impressed. Walz is articulate and energetic. He is focused on actual, real-world solutions to the problems people experience. He speaks in plain jargon-free English.... Read More
August 5, 2024 —
This has been fun. Great to have thoughts and insights from so many of you. For those just joining the conversation I kicked it off with some thoughts by Freddie DeBoer last week in my blog titled “Is Life Harder Now?” DeBoer is a skeptic when it comes to the common lament that life is... Read More
August 4, 2024 —
Thank you to the many of you who responded to my question, “Is Life Harder Now?” in my last blog. I will be sharing some of your insights later this week. And its not too late if you want to put your oar in the water on that one and share with me your thoughts... Read More
August 1, 2024 —
I liked this from author/ cultural critic Freddie DeBoer at his Substack site. It is part of a review of new book on the declining fertility rate in developed countries, a.k.a. “the fertility crisis.” After noting most of the reasons for declining fertility cited in the book, DeBoer wonders if the now common zeitgeist of... Read More
July 29, 2024 —
The Salmon River in Idaho, is the longest free-flowing, i.e. undammed river, in the contiguous United States. It is also known as “The River of No Return.” That because in the early days of navigation on the Salmon you could go down it, but not back up. Hence, “no return.” A movie was made with... Read More
July 27, 2024 —
Some of you have asked my thoughts on what I will call “the anointing” of Kamala Harris. Because we took off on a five-day rafting trip on the Salmon River on Monday (more on that in a future blog), I’ve been neither sending or receiving this week. Frankly, kind of relief! Now, since getting off... Read More
July 21, 2024 —
Post-publication note: This was written prior to President Biden’s withdrawal. But the main point — the ball is in the Democrats court — is now even more true. Whatever else you and I may make of the current moment in American politics, it seems fair to say that few foresaw or predicted where we find... Read More
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