music clip of the day

President Obama testifies

“Amazing Grace,” funeral for Rev. Clementa Pinckney, Charleston, South Carolina, 6/26/15

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lagniappe

random sights

Friday morning
Oak Park, Illinois

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random thoughts

Life is full of unexpected sorrows, but also treasures. When I was a teenager, never could I have imagined that, one morning, I would wake up and find myself married, for nearly four decades, to a woman—a wonderful woman—who, that day, was turning sixty-three.