In no particular order

  • Out for a morning run with my wife, we came across a truck parked outside an estate.  Gates locked in the estate.  The truck was on and its lights were on, but nobody was inside.   We had a good view of it for about 1/3 -mile.  Nothing or nobody.  A few hundred yards on, another truck, off and dark this time, but somebody inside was singing Mexican love songs loud and tunefully.  At 5:30 AM.  Our neighborhood isn’t usually so festive.
  • Its not good etymology of course, but I like to think of agony as a geometric term, just like pentagony or hexagony would be.  Agony is the condition of not having a form at all.  It is what you experience as you lose the shape of who you are.
  • The function of the Mulekites in the Book of Mormon is to rebut the Lamanite claim that Lehi and Nephi made up the stuff about Jerusalem being destroyed.  It explains why God would have bothered with them without giving them a means to preserve their religion and language.  Or, rather, he did, but the means He chose was the Nephites coming in to revive them.  God plays a longer game than we like or imagine, and a less particular one.

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