Weekend

If you live near Boston you really owe it to yourself to get over to the Arnold Arboretum. We went there for a picnic yesterday and it was beautiful.

Before heading off to bed last night I read E.L. Doctorow’s story in this week’s New Yorker, at Philip’s suggestion. What a great, subversive piece. I say “subversive” because I think that Doctorow was getting at something more general about people, using the theme of religious communities as a vehicle. So we’ll all nod and say “what a fool that man is”, without realizing that we do the same thing in other parts of our lives.