To clarify: the title is excerpted from Act 1 of Shakespeare's Love's Labour's Lost. The full quote goes: "Light, seeking light, doth light of light beguile; So ere you find where light in darkness lies, Your light grows dark by losing of your eyes." It's a warning against spending too much of your life in scholarly pursuits.
Day By Day
Monday, August 25, 2008
A Cross Comes to Shanksville
This has not gotten a lot of attention in the national press but there was an amazing demonstration in Pennsylvania yesterday. A cross made from World Trade Center beams was delivered to the Flight 93 memorial in Shanksville, PA accompanied by a 1,000 motorcycle escort. All along the route and at every overpass on locals turned out to greet the procession and display their patriotism.
Read about it here.
It seems that those angry white Pennsylvanians for whom the Little Messiah has so much contempt are clinging to more than our Bibles and gun -- they also embrace the flag. Imagine that!