Old men ought to be explorers

not fare well
but fare forward, voyagers

And Happy Birthday to you too, Mr Eliot.

WF

Today is the eve of a certain William Faulkner's 100th birthday. Rowan Oak is serving cake and punch.

"Memory believes before knowing remembers. Believes longer than recollects, longer than knowing even wonders. Knows remembers believes a corridor in a big long garbled cold echoing building of dark red brick sootbleakened by more chimneys than its own, set in a grassless cinder-strewnpacked compound surrounded by smoking factory purlieus and enclosed by a ten foot steel-and-wire fence like a penitentiary or a zoo, where in random erratic surges, with sparrowlike childtrebling, orphans in identical and uniform blue denim in and out of remembering but knowing constant as the bleak walls, the bleak windows where in rain soot from the yearly adjacenting chimneys streaked like black tears."

The first paragraph of chapter 6, from Light in August

Celebrate as you see fit. Everett's usually good for a suggestion.

Peace

Today is the International Day of Peace as established by the United Nations. It's also supposed to be a international ceasefire day as well, but I highly doubt that the US will be participating. Please pray for peace today (and everyday). I leave you with a few quotes:

"You must be the change you want to see in the world." - Ghandi

"Peace is the only battle worth waging." - Camus

"Peace cannot be kept by force. It can only be achieved by understanding." - Einstein

"They shall beat their swords into ploughshares, and their spears into pruning hooks; nation shall not lift up sword against nation, neither shall they learn war any more." - Book of Isaiah

Between Weddings

So we brought our camera to the wedding. Not that we thought to get a picture of either Taylor or Lydia, but we did get this one. We have resolved to avoid this sin at Steven and Jennie's wedding. See you there.

Claremont, NH

So, Best Budget Inn in Claremont has rooms available for the outstanding rate of $65 a night, four people per room. That's the best I could find. Kelly and I are getting into Manchester Friday, probably camping with Jesse and Cheyenne that night, staying in a hotel with the likes of you on Saturday, and flying out Sunday night, in order to be back teaching by Monday morning. Are there plans I know nothing about? Should we go ahead and get some rooms? What nights? I know Kristen and Nate have expressed some interest in this as well.