All righty, blogosphere. I'm stuffed to the epiglottis with cookies, monkey bread, and trifle. And it's only 0830 - all that's from the past two nights. Ugh. Now I'm hitting the road with a VW-load of presents, as my parents are skipping today's trip to let my sister rest at home with her inexplicable Australian virus. So I'm basically the ( Read more... )

"All of which is to say, look up the word suffrage in the dictionary. In mine, after noting the main meanings - the privilege of voting, the 'exercise of such a right,' the third interpretation of suffrage is this: 'a short intercessory prayer.' Isn't that beautiful? And true? For what is voting if not a kind of prayer, and what are prayers if ( Read more... )