Having enjoyed Lord of the Flies, I've started in on Conrad's Heart of Darkness. I had started it before, but didn't finish it. I was enjoying it then, and am enjoying it again.

There's this passage at the beginning, that might apply to our adventures in Iraq today... (the narrator is imagining a Roman soldier coming to Britain, what to him would be a strange, foreign land)

"Land in a swamp, march through the woods, and in some inland post feel the savagery, the utter savagery, had closed round him--all that mysterious life of the wilderness that stirs in the forest, in the jungles, in the hearts of wild men. There's no initiation either into such mysteries. He has to live in the midst of the incomprehensible, which is also detestable. And it has a fascination, too, that goes to work upon him. The fascination of the abomination--you know, imagine the growing regrets, the longing to escape, the powerless disgust, the surrender, the hate."

Took the kids to the park last night. We had fun rescuing Tiger Lily. Several times.

Hanna still likes to come and untie my shoes for me when I come home from work. Don't know where she got that.

Alistair Begg will be in town tonight at a church over in Arden Hills. He has a radio bible teaching ministry that's on a local Christian radio station here. He's a pastor in Cleveland, but he's from Scotland. I enjoy listening to him, and would like to run over there tonight. Have a deacons meeting tomorrow night.