Virtual Oases: October 5

• Our favorite YW blog has a great review of Pres. Dalton’s talk today — love the shout-out to the outdoor meeting.  Let’s hope that takes.  There’s also a lively discussion about it at FMH.
• A moving essay from the latest Sunston: How the Prayers Ran Dry
• Changing diapers while the Dow falls.
• Jana . . . I was just telling my juniors about “Author’s Ridge at the Concord cemetary, how every October I would take a book of poetry and sit near Hawthorne, Emerson, Thoreau, and Alcott.  I even got a little teary.  So glad you could make it there for me . . .
• Kiskilili takes another look at the tricky word “preside” — can’t we just say father’s are vital?
• Dalene: In praise of parenting teenagers

Just Because:

• P.J. O’Rourke looks at death . . . and makes us laugh
• The feel good story of the year . . . even if you aren’t a Red Sox fan
• Winner of the worst opening sentence contest