Thursday, December 11, 2008

Letter to a Frazzled America

"Do you have the jitters? Are you frazzled over the global economic crisis? Do you worry about your job? Do you fear that America as we know it—the land of warm faith and audacious hope—is freezing over, pulling back?

But, oh…the vigor and grace of simplicity and the power of peace!

Roman palm trees monopolize the scenery of this upper window through which I peer, in this gloriously lonely place from which I write to you. I have retreated to a hamlet just outside the Eternal City for a handful of days of uninterrupted pen-to-paper."

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