At Padre Island National Seashore you can drive on the beach — if you have a 4-wheel drive vehicle, you can do that for sixty miles, until you come to Mansfield Channel, which separates the North and South islands.

Via this post from Sara Hendren — AKA @ablerism — I see that I need to read Dougald Hine. One sentence from Hine’s book sums up so much that is essential: “The entitlements of late modernity are not compatible with the realities of life on a finite planet and they do not even make us happy.”

So here I am praising David Brooks for … thinking some of the things I think, I guess. But I can’t help it if he and I are both right!

The response by Gemma M. (whom I don’t know) at my most recent BMAC post is fascinating to me, and truly moving.

Mark 7:34. I should get points for biblical literacy instead of being rejected.

dozing