the black elk visits
December 21, 2011
In my not so frequent visits with the Shrine, on the occasions when I picked my dad up, took him to the meeting, and stayed for dinner (I was so welcomed into that sodality!!!), they have a tradition of announcing the deaths of fellow members – they called it Shriners or Masons who had been visited by the Black Elk. I like this. I think of my own fraternity – my own sodality of writers. In the past few weeks, Christopher Hitchens, Russell Hoban, and Vaclav Havel have been visited. Noted. Acknowledged.
