Back-to-back Fridays with something from what is likely REM's final studio album, Collapse Into Now, which, as I mentioned last week, received short-shrift due to the fact that it was released around the time the band announced they amiably decided to call it quits after nearly 40 years together.
"It Happened Today" is our traditio this week, which is the Feast of the Exaltation of the Holy Cross:
We'll leave the allegory/To another Bible story/Out of deference/Defiance, the choice
Blogito ergo sum! Actually, as N.T. Wright averred, "'Amor, ergo sum:' I am loved, therefore I am." Among other things, I am a Roman Catholic deacon. This is a public cyberspace in which I seek to foster Christian discipleship in the late modern milieu in the diakonia of koinonia and in the recognition that "the Eucharist is the only place of resistance to annihilation of the human subject."
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