what great stones

Immensely stirred and complicated and brought to knees by out of control personal factors, this ongoing and experiential unendingness of both the hurrication and the wellness of my first child, loaded into the eighteen-wheeler of life anyway, watching disintegration of morality, world and nation because of incomprehensible created-in-the-image-of-Creator stupidity of human selfishness and greed; and now beloved child and beloved hometown, it all comes home and comes down on, as it has and does for millions of people on earth, a father holding his child in the ruins of war and going somewhere, anywhere else -



- that nearly all my life I've watched with sympathy and compassion now collapsed into the empathy of being there too. But then why not me?

What? brings me here the State of the Nation and its selfsameness to Rome and other states, all of which collapsed in their Time. Remembering deep emotional love for and boundless confidence in America during World War Two, throughout my childhood and all my growing up years, and now living into the reality that all was never as perfect as it seemed and "one of his disciples said to him, 'Look, Teacher, what wonderful stones and what wonderful buildings!' And Jesus said to him, 'Do you see these great buildings? There will not be left here one stone upon another, that will not be thrown down.'” (Mk 13:1b-2)

Five months and abiding: does it start to get better? If so, it's not your child, and it obviously wasn't your hometown.

2018 that started with centennial remembrance of the 7 January 1918 wreck of the Annie & Jennie and ...

What to do? Time. Resume my exploration into Hebrew.

http://plusmoretime.blogspot.com/2014/07/gripping-account-of-wreck.html



https://www.vox.com/2019/1/1/18139787/rome-decline-america-edward-watts-mortal-republic 

https://www.vox.com/2019/1/1/18139787/rome-decline-america-edward-watts-mortal-republic