Late
yesterday,
Dan walked
into the
bedroom
relieving
himself of luggage and more-than-a-week's work-related travel. He began, "Did you hear –"
"I know. I know," I interjected. "Buckley's dead. I cut out the article for Noah's baby book."
"You might want to save these too," he said tossing the Wall Street Journal and New York Times on the bed and flipping to the opinion pages to show tributes paid to a conservative hero who defended:
his
faith,
his
friends,
his
wit,
his
humor,
his
passions,
his
principles,
and
belief –
in
mankind's
Ability
to
Raise
the
Bar.
1 comment:
A wonderful tribute to an interesting man, Wendy. As a feminist and liberal, I would quarrel with many of Buckley's theses but never with the fact that the man was a true thinker, a real intellectual. It seems many Americans today have no time for those who are richly educated and constantly meditative; Buckley was a fine example of how one can be solidly conservative, religious, and a total smarty-pants. As someone wrote in a blog somewhere:
"Even though I rarely to ever agreed with him, I still respected that manner in which he delivered his ideas. Rest in peace, sir."
Your son is quite fortunate to carry his name.
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