We started our vacation in London with the bombing on a
Underground train at the Parson Green tube station. The train line was one of
the ones we’ve used before and would be using this trip, as it has the station
closest to our hotel. But the bombing was well away from where we were. We ended
our visit early Monday morning, waking up to learn that a sniper had killed at
least 20 people and injured more than 100 at a concert in Las Vegas. Television
screens at Heathrow Airport and later Philadelphia were filled with images and
reports. The death toll would reach 59 and the number of injured more than 500.
For both acts of violence, the question immediately becomes why. We know the
answer to why the bombing at Parsons Green; we’ve yet to learn if there is an
answer to Las Vegas.
Joseph Pearce at The
Imaginative Conservative reminds us there’s been a lot of misremembering of
the Russian Revolution; I saw some of it at the British Library. We forget,
aren’t being taught, or simply ignore the fact that some 15 million people died
between 1917 and 1922 as a result of the revolution. More millions would die
when Stalin ordered forced collectivization of agriculture in the Ukraine, and
then in the purges of the 1930s. Stalin’s pact with Hitler blinded him to what
was coming for Russia, and more tens of millions died.
For several weeks, I included here links to posts about
artists in London’s East End, all produced at the blog Spitalfields Life. The
book has finally been published, and it’s called East End Vernacular.
And there’s Zak Scmoll with two articles on communicating
controversial ideas, good poetry, the 10 weirdest rules followed by Britain’s
royal family, and more.
Life and Culture
Misremembering
the Russian Revolution: Romanticism, Not Reality – Joseph Pearce at The Imaginative Conservative.
The
Rural Higher-Education Crisis – John Marcus and Matt Krupnick at The Atlantic.
Fields
of Gold – Gerald Vanderleun at American Digest.
Misunderstanding
Populism – Stephen Turley at The
Imaginative Conservative.
Art and Photography
I
Contemplate My Garden – Tim Good.
Doxology
– Susan Etole.
Thornby Place
and Laurel Street – Chris Naffziger at St. Louis Patina.
Introducing
East End Vernacular –
Spitalfields Life.
Writing and
Literature
Hemingway’s
First Short Story Found in Key West – Robert Elder at The New York Times.
Marcel
Proust paid for reviews praising his work to go into newspapers – Agence
France-Presse via The Guardian.
The
Hero’s Journey as Divine Blueprint – Mike Duran at deCompose.
Faith
On
Trying to Communicate Controversial Ideas and How
to Choose a Controversial Topic to Talk About – Zak Schmoll at Entering the
Public Square.
Poetry
True
Story – Jared Gilbert at Frivolous Quill.
After
London – Robert Rife at Altarwork.
No digging –
Karin Fendick at Flickers of a Faithful FireFly.
British Stuff
The
Top Ten Weirdest Rules Followed by the British Royal Family – Town &
Country via Facebook.
Roslin
Glen – Neil Ennis at Musings.
American Stuff
The Happy
Skeptic: Review of “Benjamin Franklin” by Thomas Kidd – Hayes Bierman at
The University Bookman.
Fractal- 4K Storm
Lapse – Chad Cowan
Painting: Woman
Reading a Letter, oil on canvas by Gabriel Metsu (Dutch; mid-1660s);
National Gallery of Ireland.
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