1. I enjoy books that jump around, that don't move on a straight line from the beginning to the middle to the end. Dave Cullen's book, Columbine becomes such a book as it develops. Cullen writes short chapters that alternate between ones that, first of all, go back and look at different students, families, and others before Eric Harris and Dylan Klebold attacked Columbine High School with the most intense attention focused on Harris and Klebold, that, second, revisit and deepen the horror of the attack itself on April 20, 1999, and, third, that look at the complex repercussions that grew out of the attack, the murders, and the inevitable trauma that ensued. In other words, in moves between lives before the attack, the attack itself, and the aftermath(s) of the attack.
I'm going to hold off right now on elaborating upon it, but I've learned more about psychopathy from this book than from anything I've ever read before.
2. My favorite kind of beef --don't yell at me -- is chuck roast. Tonight, Debbie slow cooked a small chuck roast and combined it with the frozen noodles she buys at Walmart (tip of the hat to Carol Lee) and I'm not sure what else and it was, for this chuck roast lover, a transcendent bowl of food, complimented perfectly by the celery salad Debbie made.
I ate this meal and I felt like Snuffles, the self-hugging, floating, dog biscuit loving bloodhound from Quick Draw McGraw. Remember Snuffles? Click this link for a 13 second reminder.
3. I know I've published all 10 of the Life is Good/Joy Project pictures from the challenge I accepted from Russell, but I'm going to add an 11th image. I took this picture on the afternoon I mentioned in another post when I went roaming in Georgetown and went to the Georgetown Waterfront Park. It was on Sunday, June 24, 2012. I'd celebrated the Eucharist at the National Cathedral that morning and then walked for countless blocks. Somehow I remained inconspicuous when I snapped this faceless portrait, an achievement that continues to give me joy.
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