Showing posts with label remembrance. Show all posts
Showing posts with label remembrance. Show all posts
Thursday, November 24, 2022

As Americans Celebrate Thanksgiving, Obligation to Remember Our Real History

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Mural replica in Silverton, Oregon, of one of Norman Rockwell's "Four Freedoms" paintings,  at Wikimedia Commons It's not ...
Saturday, February 9, 2019

Remembering a Grandfather on the Anniversary of His Death: "Everything, in Time, Gets Lost"

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As I've said here before, Daniel Mendelsohn's book The Lost is one of the most powerful books I've read in my long li...
Saturday, June 11, 2016

Historical Memory and Political Imagination (2): The Magis of History That Frees Our Imaginations to Recognize More Possibility for Present and Future

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Here's the historical anecdote I wanted to attach to what I wrote yesterday about how history itself, the real McCoy, the raw data ...
Friday, June 10, 2016

Historical Memory and Political Imagination: "When the Discourse of Politics Amounts to a Choice Between Donald Trump and Hillary Clinton"

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What's that I hear you say? More history, please! Or perhaps I'm hearing, at this far distance through the ether of cyberspac...
Monday, June 6, 2016

I Spent Five Months in Prison and Got Exiled to Nova Scotia for Loyalty to the Crown and This Lousy Land Is All I Get?! Or, the Story of David Dinsmore and How We Spent Our Summer Vacation

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We're back from our vacation, and it may take me a number of days to get into the swing of posting real stuff here again. I apol...
Tuesday, May 17, 2016

Sharing Our Life as Theology: Another Videotaped Theological Conversation with Ivone Gebara, About Diarmaid MaCulloch's Silence, Christian Amnesia, and Gospel Mandate for Inclusivity

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I've previously shared with you two videotaped conversations that I had the honor of having in the past year with the distinguished B...
Tuesday, February 16, 2016

Quote for Day: Fred Clark on Antonin Scalia and How to Avoid Having One's Death Perceived As a Source of Liberation

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Fred Clark on the death of Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia:
Sunday, February 14, 2016

Remembering Antonin Scalia: Twitterverse Testimony

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I wish Antonin Scalia the peace, mercy, & happiness in death that he tried so hard to deny me in life. — Katie Grimes (@KatieMGrime...
Friday, November 20, 2015

On History and the Importance of Remembering: An American Family Story for You

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I think that perhaps too many postings from me are a big bore. They bore me, if no one else in the world. With that warning, I have t...
Friday, September 11, 2015

Quote for Day: "All Lives Do Not Matter When We Must Sort the Dead by Sides" — A 9/11 Remembrance

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Patricia J. Williams's powerful observation yesterday at The Nation  site, which has to do with what we get when we remix the Co...
Monday, August 24, 2015

Katrina: The Obligation to Remember — "Hurricane Katrina Exposed Our Nation's Amazing Tolerance for Black Pain" (Jamelle Bouie)

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Rebecca Solnit on why we need to get what happened in New Orleans with Hurricane Katrina right: 
Saturday, August 8, 2015

Remembering a Friend on His Birthday: Holiness in Ordinary

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I didn't actually say I wouldn't post this weekend, did I? :) What prompts me to do so today is that today's the birt...
Wednesday, July 22, 2015

Thoughts Following the Funeral of a Friend Today: The Rare Gift of Being There for Others

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I'm sorry to be slow to blog today and to respond to comments, folks. Today was the funeral of a friend and neighbor of ours, who...
Sunday, March 22, 2015

Confronting the Real History of American Families: Stories Hiding in Plain Sight

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This is one of those family-history postings that may interest only a slice of regular readers of this blog — except that it tells,...
Sunday, March 15, 2015

I Try to Keep You in My Memory: On the Struggle to Remember, a Poem on the Anniversary of My Brother's Death

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Yesterday was the anniversary of the death of my brother Simpson in 1991. His was one of several family deaths at which I'd be pr...
Friday, February 13, 2015

Social Networking Sites and the Way Americans Do Death: My Notes with Questions

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I wonder if this has happened to anyone besides me. First, I happened to notice a posting pop up on Facebook last year from the Faceb...
Monday, February 9, 2015

Violets Gathered on a Funeral Morning: A Poem Commemorating the Anniversary of a Grandfather's Death

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A few days back, I shared a story of the final days of my grandfather's life, a memory of an experience I had as I sat in the ...
Tuesday, January 27, 2015

A Memory: A Grandfather's Final Illness, Pink Shirts, Sissies, and the World's Going to Hell

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A memory. We all have them, don’t we, those flashes of recollection that leap into our minds, triggered by nothing we’re doing or thi...
Tuesday, September 23, 2014

A Remembrance of My Grandmother on Her Birthday

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Two women sit sewing. You’d call the scene quiet, if you didn’t see the frenetic quick gouges the needle of the younger is making thr...
Friday, August 15, 2014

Remembering Maya Angelou: Bill Moyers on Maya Angelou and Facing Evil — "We Need the Courage to Create Ourselves Daily"

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Full Show: Facing Evil With Maya Angelou from BillMoyers.com on Vimeo .