tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8176732908069622424.post5088328868942918296..comments2023-03-18T06:31:13.168-05:00Comments on Go Sit In The Corner: Faith in the SuburbsAGhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11241567321225195878noreply@blogger.comBlogger3125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8176732908069622424.post-46939303054779698362007-04-01T15:12:00.000-05:002007-04-01T15:12:00.000-05:00albion land,Welcome, and thank you for the complim...albion land,<BR/><BR/>Welcome, and thank you for the compliment. If I ever ceased to be so lazy and egotistical (in complex combination), I would make a list of links, but alas. <BR/><BR/>As to myself and A.V., let's just say that it's more than cyber soap opera.AGhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11241567321225195878noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8176732908069622424.post-59270624836896386912007-03-31T03:33:00.000-05:002007-03-31T03:33:00.000-05:00AV and AG,Firstly, Arturo. I was fascinated by you...AV and AG,<BR/><BR/>Firstly, Arturo. I was fascinated by your note, in which you referred to gabachos as white people. In Spain, gabacho is a pejorative term for the French, who inhabit a not very popular nation to the north.<BR/><BR/>Secondly, to AG: I absolutely love your blog, and have linked it at The Continuum.<BR/><BR/>Thirdly, to AV and AG: Have you two ever actually met, or is this a virtual romance?Albion Landhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14423168351697120421noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8176732908069622424.post-59471466005788168862007-03-29T15:25:00.000-05:002007-03-29T15:25:00.000-05:00I wonder if this post applies to me? I grew up in ...I wonder if this post applies to me? <BR/><BR/>I grew up in the barrio, but it was a nice barrio: clean, hardly any crime, and very friendly. People were poor, but not that poor. People used drugs, but they kept them behind closed doors, and they weren't slinging on the corner....<BR/><BR/>We were Catholic, but with lots of laxity and exceptions. I remember we would always close and lock the doors and pretend we were not home when the Jehova's Witnesses came to the door. More recently, I had started debating then (filthy Arians!) to the point that I once almost thought that their Grand Poomba was going to hit me. (O my gosh, I was doing apologetics!!!)<BR/><BR/>The one saving grace was being by the countryside. Walk a few blocks, and that's where the fields started. You would see the cows grazing on the hills, and the distant mountains. That at least for me sparked my imagination, and to this day I can't look at mountains without thinking about God:<BR/><BR/>"Levavi oculos meos in montes unde veniet auxilium mihi.<BR/><BR/>Auxilium meum a Domino qui fecit caelum et terram"<BR/><BR/>"I have lifted up my eyes to the mountains...."<BR/><BR/>Perhaps it is the detachment from nature that makes the suburbs so disordered.<BR/><BR/>And they do have way too many gabachos (white people).Arturo Vasquezhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09674281914540496859noreply@blogger.com