We probably shouldn’t have spent the whole of yesterday playing Dungeons & Dragons with Les & Ed and their boys, especially considering that we still had family visiting from out of town, not to mention a ton of other stuff we should have been doing, like putting up storm windows and so forth. But it had been ages since the last time we’d played and the invitation was just too good to resist. We showed up at their house Saturday at 10:30 a.m. and got back home a bit after 8 in the evening, tired but oh so happy. It was the best gaming I’ve had in several years, actually.
Note: what follows is a long, self-indulgent description of yesterday’s campaign, written mainly for the benefit of those who were there. If you aren’t a fan of the multi-sided dice ;) you should probably just skip this one.
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I’m sure the metaphor of man-as-tree is old as the hills, and we all talk about having roots, but Robertson Davies takes it further. It’s a major theme throughout his work, particularly in the Cornish trilogy. In The Rebel Angels Parlabane tells Maria:
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This isn’t a current events blog — hell, this blog isn’t even current — but we had a current event here that I can’t let go by without a comment.
Lauretta Codrington hit the national news last week when she a) was one of two holdout jurors who voted not to convict a young man of murder, resulting in a mistrial, and b) went public with her reasons why. To say she’s been “criticized” for her decision, well, that’s putting it mildly. She even had to take down her website because some of her clients were getting hate mail.
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