Life in late capitalism can be vexing, alienating, fragmenting, and otherwise frustrating. There are many wonderful things in my life, but I'm more likely to talk about what's bad rather than what's good. I'm going to try to post one good thing here each day, and if you would join in by adding a good thing from your day in the comments, I'd love it--I'd absolutely love it. --RR
10/23: wedding
I've been invited to a number of former students' weddings over the years, but I haven't gone to any of them--until tonight. Something about my relationship with this particular former student made me feel like I should go. I'm really glad I did. It was a sweet, low-key ceremony. The minister started his sermon by saying, "I think we should pay attention to the verbs in the passage we just heard"--how could I not smile at that? And my student chose one of the readings from the Book of Ruth; I know it's a common passage to be read at weddings, but she had translated the Vulgate version of it in a Latin class with me, so that made me teary, in a good way.
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