Karen Marie Knapp…

…of happy memory, entered eternal life a little over a year ago (August 1, to be exact.) May the souls of the faithful departed, through the mercy of God, rest in peace.

Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn 1918-2008

Solzhenitzyn’s Templeton Address: “Men Have Forgotten God” WWWTW reprints his frighteningly prescient 1978 Harvard Address: It is not possible that assessment of the President’s performance be reduced to the question of how much money one makes or of unlimited availability of gasoline. Only voluntary, inspired self-restraint can raise man above the world stream of materialism.

Kidisms for 7/25/08

Gorbulas flips through wedding pictures. “Mommy,, when you get married, do you have to go find someone to marry?” Pansy cuts up a pink grapefruit and gives it to Fredegar. “Oooh, look, Mommy give me a grape-orange!”