Sanctuary! Laws and Lore

I’ll bet when you glanced at my title, you thought of Victor Hugo’s hunchback, Quasimodo, standing in a portico of Notre dame de Paris, holding aloft the unconscious maiden he has just rescued from the gallows and bellowing, “SANCTUAREEEEE!”  It’s a thrilling cry that reverberates down the ages.  But it’s much older than Hugo’s 19th … Continue reading Sanctuary! Laws and Lore

Safety in Numbers?

We looked out of our window this morning to see a big flock of wild turkeys massing in front of our barn. It’s not unusual to see them in the woods, or even to have to stop the car for on or two of them them on the lane . But an entire “rafter”? (That’s … Continue reading Safety in Numbers?

”The beauty of Israel is slain upon thy high places..”

September 11. I woke up and turned on the TV, hoping to hear that they had caught Charlie Kirk’s killer. The screen blossomed with the roiling, fulminating smoke of the twin towers giving up the ghost on that awful day 24 years ago.Yesterday I saw the video of Charlie Kirk’s shooting. His rose-red lifeblood bursting, … Continue reading ”The beauty of Israel is slain upon thy high places..”