mccarthyism

12.01.2017

I try to read more, in the evenings, when the television doesn’t get to us first. I re-read Godric by Buechner, and a little book on Rowan Williams’s theology. I read Ta-Nahesi Coates and John Webster, and a book about refugees called Assimilate or Go Home. The Webster is bracing, thoroughly Christian and wonderfully undefensive. Canon, he says, is in “the sphere of dogmatics: of faith, church, creed, prayer, holiness.” So beautifully simple. A friend tells me that he once went through a Webster phase, too, but that he’s not one of his fan-boys like so many these days. I’m not sure what to say to that.

I like my job. I find myself thinking about it more and more, at night when I can’t sleep. It’s looking like we may settle down in Highwood for the foreseeable future. The kids are in school, in a Spanish-English program, and doing well. Our church just bought a building in Highwood, too, an old Swedish Methodist church just a few minutes’ walk from where we live. I like to walk past it when I walk with Aiden. We peek in the dirty windows and look up at the steeple.

I do love Highwood. I love walking in it, seeing the trees, the little yards, all the small, old houses in their grey rows. I love that everyone walks everywhere, and I love the rundown little park beside the Catholic church where my kids like to swing. Maybe we’ll buy a house soon and start to make Highwood our home. I’d like that.

Listening:

“DAMN.” Kendrick Lamar

“Harmony of Difference” Kasami Washington

“Nashville Sound” Jason Isbell

“Music for the Age of Miracles” The Clientele

posted by ethan # 12/01/2017 03:44:00 PM

mccarthyism

12.01.2017

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