January 2009
12 posts
Rev. Lowery's Inaugural Benediction...Amen!
On You Tube.
Present Barack Obama's Inauguration Speech
The transcript.
America's Song →
A 1964 BBC Conversation with Dr. Martin Luther... →
What Have We Done to Our Country? →
Erik Eckholm’s reporting always champions the poor and dispossessed in America, not by strident advocacy but by strong reporting.
WatchI’ve just finished Shadow Country, by Peter Matthiessen. This is a tremendously deep, haunting, complex, and great novel, reminiscent of Herman Melville’s Moby Dick. I loved the previous novels in the Watson trilogy: Killing Mr. Watson, Lost Man’s River, and Bone by Bone. And this new version of the story is even more wonderful and moving and sad. Here is a recent interview of...
Justinian and Theodora
This couple is featured in the history textbooks’ discussions of the Byzantine Empire; their story told in a few brief paragraphs. There is so much unsaid about them that I want to know more. And the parallels with modern life: were they like Juan and Eva Peron? Bill and Hillary Clinton?
A New Year
Time to pick up this tumblog again after many months of doing many other things, including introducing my ninth grade students at PHS to Tumblr. Initial reaction: Oh it’s just like MySpace, which most of them have. A few students turned out not to have email addresses, which we easily set up for them, so that was a good outcome. And lots of very creative approaches.
And this was fun: the...