Paul received word that his Aunt Anne died today. I met her only once. She was a lovely person, gentle and welcoming. Paul may want to go to the funeral. If so, we will drive up to Toronto on Friday, attend the funeral on Saturday, and return to Three Lions on Sunday.
In reading news, I attended the Comparative Religion reading group this afternoon. We are slowly going through Hecht's Doubt. I don't think a whole lot of it -- "doubt" seems merely a hook on which to hang a rather superficial survey of philosophy/religion. Today we began discussion of the third chapter which covers Hinduism, Buddhism, Taoism, and Confucianism...all in about thirty breezy pages. Someone mentioned how much he prefers reading this philosophy-lite to reading tome after tome of the real nitty-gritty. I didn't tell them I'd only recently purchased the entirety of St. Thomas's Summa Theologica in Latin.
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