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“Or how much curious and loving attention was expended by the first man who looked hard enough at the insides of trees, the entrails of cats, the hind ends of horses and the juice of pine tree to realize he could turn them all into the first fiddle. No doubt his wife urged him to get up and do something useful. I am sure that he was a stalwart enough lover of things to pay no attention at all to her nagging; but how wonderful it would have been if he had known what we know now about his dawdling. He could have silenced her with the greatest riposte of all time: Don’t bother me; I am creating the possibility of the Bach unaccompanied sonatas” (Robert Farrar Capon, The Supper of the Lamb, p. 19 HT to Doug Wilson

July 31, 2003

Just got back from “Seabiscuit.” One heck of a fine, emotional, well-done movie. Very uplifting and hope-filled. Go see it.

Great picture. I thought Bill was more of a Rastafarian kind of guy. (Actually, I thought it was a photo of Cheech and Chong coming out of retirement for one more movie.)

We are traveling the next four days, and I am going to take those days and maybe more away from discussions at the Tavern. Many of you know that I have some real issues about my preaching. I try not to let things get to me, but I am not screwed together very tightly, and sometimes I get to a place that I am mentally and emotionally very low. My dad lived with depression, and the apple didn’t fall too far from the tree. Knocking around the house without any school going on has not been good for me, and when I am bored, I am not a good person. That’s showed up today, and I need to do something to change course before school starts. So you can offer up a small prayer I get back to normal. One good thing is that I get to go to church and just be a regular guy Sunday, so pray I am blessed real good. (Actually, “Seabiscuit” was the best sermon I’ve heard in a while. Full of wonderful hope for all of us.)

Till Monday or so….

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