Denver was pretty quiet.\u00c2\u00a0 Dave’s mother had three visitors: us, and Dave’s sister Jill.\u00c2\u00a0 We went out to dinner twice with Jill and Elaine, and ate at home the other three days.\u00c2\u00a0 Only one other Denver friend was in the area, a college pal of mine named Louis who has what I would call a dream job: sorting through old books at a recycling bin and deciding which ones can be sold for money or donated for right living.\u00c2\u00a0 There’s a hierarchy in voluntary poverty which we will all be discovering shortly.\u00c2\u00a0 The most powerful get to shuttle between Israel and Palestine and build habitats for humanity, others sort plastics from papers.\u00c2\u00a0 Louis finds the bound minutes of Methodist Church Districts in the 18th century (how did they even make it to Colorado, let alone into the trash?) and donates them to theological seminaries.<\/p>\n
Dave’s mother is quite old now and we will be visiting her more often.<\/p>\n
On Monday we flew to California.\u00c2\u00a0 The cost of the airport\u00c2\u00a0 shuttle has gone from $18 to $25 during the summer.\u00c2\u00a0 We should have bought those instead of even gold.\u00c2\u00a0 Our shuttle driver was from Morocco and seemed terribly nervous.\u00c2\u00a0 Another shuttle driver had just been arrested for what seems so far to be fairly thin evidence of a terror plot (peroxide bomb diagrams on his computer? better arrest Wikipedia), and I know that a lot of people in America regard Morocco and Afghanistan as pretty much interchangeable and Zakarias has to experience that prejudice.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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