Showing posts with label Murder Most Foul. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Murder Most Foul. Show all posts

Wednesday, May 25, 2022

Seeking refuge when there is no comfort / George Floyd May 25, 2020



Refuge is not the same as comfort.

“A voice was heard in Ramah, lamentation and bitter weeping; Rachel, weeping for her children, refused to be comforted for her children, because they were no more.”

Jeremiah 31:15

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ref·uge
/ˈrefˌyo͞oj,ˈrefˌyo͞oZH/
noun
  1. a condition of being safe or sheltered from pursuit, danger, or trouble.
    "he was forced to take refuge in the French embassy"
    • something providing shelter.
      plural nounrefuges
      "the family came to be seen as a refuge from a harsh world"
      Similar:
      shelter
      protection
      safety
      security
      asylum
      sanctuary
      preservation
      safe keeping
      place of shelter
      place of safety
      haven
      safe haven
      sanctum
      safe house
      harbor
      port in a storm
      ark
      retreat
      bolthole
      foxhole
      hiding place
      hideaway
      hideout
      fastness
      querencia
    • an institution providing safe accommodations for women who have suffered violence from a spouse or partner.

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I remember being a child and weeping with other children when we learned by way of a classroom loudspeaker that President Kennedy had been shot and killed in Texas.



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We're not alone.  Never will be.  

It's been two years since George Floyd was murdered.  Just realized that.

Sunday, November 22, 2020

Revisiting November 22, 1963 / Murder Most Foul (with accompanying translation into Spanish) / Context


Despite the elation after Barack Obama was elected president in 2008, a fear arose in me that he was in danger of being assassinated.  Something in the air felt too much like the 1950s (note: regarding link, expect deeply disturbing content and jarring commercial interruptions) and early 1960s.  What happened during his presidency and what has happened since his eight years as president ended has been most foul, an attempted assassination of democracy, of human rights, of human decency.  

Murders most foul throughout U.S. history in all contexts have come to light in the past four years.

"OK, what now? What should I be doing now? What should our country be doing now? What should I be striving to be now?"

"You have to believe you can change in order to bring it about. I can't engage in something when I think it's impossible for that thing to actually happen. So I think, philosophically, that gives me hope."

 -- Ibram X. Kendi

On November 22, 2020, the Bellingham Public Library has 62 holds on 22 copies of How To Be An Antiracist.

Friday, March 27, 2020

Bob Dylan's message: "Stay safe, stay observant and may God be with you"



The title of the song offered by Bob Dylan yesterday is a quotation from Hamlet, where the Ghost comments about his own death: "Murder most foul as in the best it is / But this most foul, strange and unnatural."

From the Bob Dylan website:

Greetings to my fans and
followers with gratitude for
all your support and loyalty
across the years.

This is an unreleased song we
recorded a while back that you
might find interesting.

Stay safe, stay observant and
may God be with you.

Bob Dylan


Here's what Bellingham looks like with people ordered to stay home:




A message from Seth Fleetwood, Bellingham's mayor: