Remembering Andrew Wimmer by Suzanne Renard
Suzanne gave me permission to post the following text she wrote one day after Andrew died at Barnes Jewish Hospital, A text I sent Marcia, Jan 23, 2024. As I listen to the outpouring of…
Day: April 21, 2025
Today’s One-Liner (#131)
If we respected the tenth commandment, the four commandments that precede it would be superfluous. –Rene Girard, Maxim #90, in All Desire Is a Desire for Being: Essential Writings, edited by Cynthia L. Haven
A Simple, Extraordinary Gift/2
I am engrossed these days rereading Nadezhda Mandelstam’s inspiring memoir, Hope Against Hope. It’s an account of her life with her husband, the acclaimed poet Osip Mandelstam who ran afoul of the revolutionaries of the…