{"id":608,"date":"2006-01-05T19:13:13","date_gmt":"2006-01-05T19:13:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.beliefnet.com\/jesuscreed\/2006\/01\/o-mexico7.html"},"modified":"2006-01-05T19:13:13","modified_gmt":"2006-01-05T19:13:13","slug":"o-mexico7","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/jesuscreed\/2006\/01\/o-mexico7.html","title":{"rendered":"O Mexico!7"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Our days in Mexico are about over now. Kari, our niece, the track runner from U New Hampshire, left this morning. We take off tomorrow morning.<br \/>\nMy early-morning little heron got within about 10 feet of me today. He was in hot pursuit of some bug and realized a little late how close he was to me. I finished the splendid biography (half-biography) of Jane Addams today, and have begun a book of essays by Thomas Lynch, the undertaker from Michigan who lives part-time in Ireland. It gives him a handle on all kinds of topics.  The book is called <em> Booking Passage: We Irish &amp; Americans <\/em>. I&#8217;ve read two books of his essays before, and am looking forward to this one. <!--more|inline--><br \/>\nKris finished the memoirs of Thomas Sowell, and will shortly begin K. Clinton&#8217;s study of Harriet Tubman, on whom I focused a chp of <em> Embracing Grace<\/em>. She was a fantastic woman: a five-foot gospel walking on earth. Kris is taller than that, but she&#8217;s a walking gospel too.<br \/>\nWe each ordered a glass of tomato juice at 10am and they brought us a Bloody Mary. Never had one of those, and wasn&#8217;t about to give one a try at 10am.<br \/>\nNo blogs of the week tomorrow. Sorry.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Our days in Mexico are about over now. Kari, our niece, the track runner from U New Hampshire, left this morning. We take off tomorrow morning. My early-morning little heron got within about 10 feet of me today. 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