tidings ~ !

[lookingland]

yesterday was the 200th birthday anniversary of Robert E. Lee.

go check out some stories from father jim at Dappled Things, who writes nobly every year about this tragic hero of old virginia ~ and much more eloquently than i could ever hope.

hap-B-day uncle robert.



My trust
is in the mercy and wisdom
of a kind Providence,
who ordereth all things
for our good.

x-posted to uscivilwar

Comments

[lookingland.livejournal.com]

uncle robert seemed to have felt that war was an unfortunate inevitability even though he believed that the slaves would be freed and things could have been smoothed over without it.

america would have certainly evolved a lot slower without it perhaps, but she sacrificed a lot to speed things up.

i think part of the problem of human existance is that man is always in such a big dang hurry.

: o p