The last but one of our two cats died a couple of months ago (http://www.davetrowbridge.com/blog/2008/04/16/goodbye-ranae/), and the remaining one, Cleopatra, seemed to mourn for quite some time, and was slowing down, no longer racing around on an “mission for God.” So we recently adopted a year-old brown and white tabby from the Santa Cruz Animal [...]
Introit
To live and work successfully with others requires more than faithfulness to one's concrete aims. It requires an intellectual commitment to a type of order in which, even on issues which to one are fundamental, others are allowed to pursue different ends. It is for this reason that to the liberal neither moral nor religious ideals are proper objects of coercion, while both conservatives and socialists recognize no such limits.-
