A difficult year for the world, but looking back with gratitude on encounters with so many great souls: (with Henri Nouwen looking on), Cardinal Luis Tagle, the late James Cone (our last meeting)...
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My beloved teacher Harvey Cox, my favorite cinephile Rose Pacatte, my dad on his 87th birthday...
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and Bryan Massingale, my oldest friend Jim Forest, prophet and bowling rival Sr Ilia Delia...
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Judy Mayotte, my younger brother John Dear, Kate and Martha Hennessy, who carry on the legacy of their granny Dorothy Day...
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My sister Kelly Brown Douglas, my other Sister my iconographer and fellow saint-watcher William Hart McNichols, my favorite “1” on the Enneagram . Thank you for friendship, guidance, and for sustaining my hope in a better world.
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Love you brotha. I hope we have some more great times together in 2019.
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I’m grateful for time spent with you and Shane in San Antonio at the Oblate Center. Blessings abounded.
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I appreciate this memorial about my father by @ggrenwald above any I have read today--for his comprehensive review of his bio & history, for his attention to themes generally overlooked about his post-Vietnam life, but particularly for deep appreciation of his human qualities.🙏
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Here's my @RollingStone article on Daniel Ellsberg, the heroic Pentagon Papers leaker who died today at 92:
"We’re Told Never to Meet Our Childhood Heroes. Knowing Daniel Ellsberg Proved That Wrong"
rollingstone.com/politics/polit
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