On Thursday evening, June 17, 7 p.m. CDT, there will be a Zoom conversation about the documentary film “Oslo Diaries”. All details are here. Scroll down to Third Thursday film. The on-line conversation requires pre-registration. Speaker David Schultz is a well-known speaker in this area, and the evening will be very informative. It is very […]
PRE-NOTE: Our 4th grandchild turned 21 this week. if you wish, here’s my post. POSTNOTE: Recommended viewing tip for Monday, June 14, 5-6 p.m. Details: Martin Sheen June 14 2021 * If you’re reading this, it’s a reasonable guess that you’re one of about 200 who’ve actually seen this text. Most likely you’ve gotten notice […]
Today is grandson Ted’s 21st birthday. He’s likely working today, no doings planned. By 21, you’re an adult, out of the nest, by choice, or not…. Ted’s a great kid – I can use the term since I’m 60 years his senior, and I was in my last year of college when I turned his […]
This mornings paper greeted me with two major headlines: I had most recently been over to 38th and Chicago on May 23, 2021, two days before the one year anniversary of George Floyd’s murder. On the Kevin McDonough issue: I and others were abundantly blessed by having him as Pastor during his time as Vicar […]
Tuesday, the day I write these first lines, President Biden was in Tulsa, Oklahoma, on the occasion of the 100th anniversary of the Tulsa Massacre, June 1, 2021. The details of the massacre and of his speech will continue to be recited in assorted forums in assorted ways. I agree with the tenor of the […]
This morning, Monday May 31, 2021, at 9:30 on the Minnesota State Capitol grounds, at the Vietnam Memorial, will be the annual Veterans for Peace observance of Memorial Day. Except for last year, when the Pandemic made it a virtual event, it has been at the same site for almost all of the 18 years […]
Today I was back for 9:30 Mass at Basilica of St. Mary. It was first time since the Pandemic began. It was good to be back. The absence was not due to protest, or such. Advice – prudent, I feel – from the Church was for older folks to not attend. Cautions are relaxing a […]
One year ago, May 28 and 29, 2020, was a terrifying time in our area. The fires in Minneapolis and St. Paul started the night of May 27, and continued to the early morning of May 29. I asked my friend, Ruhel, when his restaurant burned down. “May 29” he said with no hesitation. The […]
Last evening at the conclusion of a meeting, the suggestion was made to meet at a popular suburban St. Paul tavern across the street. It was about 6 p.m., and it seemed a good idea. Only three of us went. The place was packed, ordinary people like ourselves. No one was masked – that’s not […]
May 25, 2020, was Memorial Day, the day George Floyd died on a street outside a neighborhood store in Minneapolis. At the time we were all immersed in the pandemic. The front page of the Minneapolis Star Tribune had a sub-headline above the fold: “A GRIM STATISTIC U.S. likely to surpass 100K deaths in coming […]