"So in the long run the stories all overlap and mingle like searchlights in the dark.… And my story and your story are all part of each other
too because … we are at least a footnote at the bottom of each other's stories."
Frederick Buechner, Secrets in the Dark
Friday, January 30, 2009
Post-Inaugural Art: Hallelujah & Happiness
This is beautiful. Tells a story. Shows art that honors words and ideas.
What do you think about the question: Why is the Presidential oath of office taken on the Bible and not on the Constitution?
Because our founding fathers had a healthy fear of God? Because they understood the Constitution, no matter how impressive a display of political ideology, in the end is simply a temporal piece of paper?
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Because our founding fathers had a healthy fear of God? Because they understood the Constitution, no matter how impressive a display of political ideology, in the end is simply a temporal piece of paper?
And now, after having read the picto-blog, I must say it was interesting and intriguing, marred only by the petty, passing shot at a former president.
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