John's Note

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11/28
You just can't help being struck by the irony of our leaders jetting all over the world to desperately try to cobble together some support for our continuing presence in Iraq. Where were these flights in 2002? Is it me, or are Bush and Cheney simply putting the kind of diplomatic effort into sustaining a war that most leaders would have put into preventing one?

11/27
I hope everybody had a great Thanksgiving. We did a lot of eating and a LOT of singing. There were 60 of us my uncle's old Bucks County farmhouse. I started the day at 10 o'clock mass where I'd been asked to give the Thanksgiving homily. Saint Joes was Delaware's first African American Catholic Church and remains the city of Wilmington's only predominantly black parish. Folks are used to seeing the white guy with the long hair and beard in the back pew and after mass a lovely older woman came up to me told me how much she enjoyed my talk. She made me laugh saying: "If you had twelve friends, I'd of thought you were Jesus!" I also got to visit my group at Gander Hill Prison and was moved to witness among the guys a spirit of gratitude that wasn't dependent on material possession or even bodily freedom

Got this word from Arlo last week: "Due to circumstances beyond out control the benefit gigs at Tipitina's in New Orleans have been cancelled". Not really sure what happened there but will let you know if and when we reschedule.