This is the Pump’s Christmas issue and I ought to consider some aspect of Christmas. However, I was just reading a lengthy letter from my American sister-in-law, who’s from just down the road fromNashvilleinTennessee. This was an appropriately rambling letter about a several day long guided hike with her husband and some friends in the West of Ireland. They were having a meal in a restaurant on the Dingle Peninsular, when she saw something on the wall that attracted her – she took down the name ‘Desiderata’ and googled it when she got home. She is a very committed Christian and broadcasts regularly throughout theUSAandCanada, but she had not come across this before.
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