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34 35<style> 36img.rcorners2 { 37 border-radius: 25px; 38 border: 1px solid black; 39 padding: 10px; 40 width: 310px; 41 height: 230px; 42} 43</style> 44 45<title>My Plaza: Louis Burkhardt Writings</title> 46 47</head> 48 49<body style="background-image:url(white/images/plazadearmas.jpg); background-repeat:round; opacity: 1;"> 50 51<div class="topnav" id="myTopnav"> 52 <a href="index.html" class="active" title="home page for Myplaza">Home</a> 53 <a href="white/Reviews_Books.html" title="reviews of books, old and new">Reviews <span class="navinstruction">(56)</span></a> 54 <div class="dropdown"> 55 <button class="dropbtn" title="thoughts about God and people, varied length">Articles 56 <i class="fa fa-caret-down"></i> 57 </button> 58 <div class="dropdown-content"> 59 <a href="white/Articles_Academic.html">Academic Articles</a> 60 <a href="white/Girard.html">René Girard</a> 61 <a href="white/God_Talk.html">God Talk</a> 62 <a href="white/People_Talk.html">People Talk</a> 63 </div> 64 </div> 65 66 <a href="videos.html" title="for fun...home-made videos, mostly of running events">Videos</a> 67 <div class="dropdown"> 68 <button class="dropbtn" title="Girard on scapegoating; Burkhardt on the label Christian">Audios 69 <i class="fa fa-caret-down"></i> 70 </button> 71 <div class="dropdown-content"> 72 <a href="white/Sound2.html">René Girard on Scapegoating (1994)</a> 73 <a href="white/Sound1.html">Why I Don't Call Myself Christian</a> 74 </div> 75 </div> 76 <div class="dropdown"> 77 <button class="dropbtn" title="some biographical notes about Louis Burkhardt">About 78 <i class="fa fa-caret-down"></i> 79 </button> 80 <div class="dropdown-content"> 81 <a href="white/LouisBurkhardtBio.html">Bio Notes</a> 82 <a href="white/Events.html">A Few Events</a> 83 </div> 84 </div> 85 <div class="dropdown"> 86 <button class="dropbtn" title="Louis Burkhardt's web logs">WebLogs 87 <i class="fa fa-caret-down"></i> 88 </button> 89 <div class="dropdown-content"> 90 <a target="_blank" class="external" href="https://mygod.myplaza.xyz">Faith In Jesus</a> 91 <a target="_blank" class="external" href="https://traveling.myplaza.xyz">Traveling</a> 92 <a target="_blank" class="external" href="https://bearings.myplaza.xyz">Bearings On Society</a> 93 <a target="_blank" class="external" href="https://personvsauto.myplaza.xyz">Person Versus Automobile </a> 94 <!--<a target="_blank" class="external" href="https://usingopensourcewordpress.myplaza.xyz">Using Open Source Wordpress</a> 95 <a target="_blank" class="external" href="https://walkaroundwaneka.myplaza.xyz">Greeting Cards (Walk Around Waneka) </a>--> 96 </div> 97 </div> 98 <a href="feedmixer.html" title="see the current web logs published by me and my relations">FeedMixer <span class="navinstruction">(try it)</span></a> 99 <a href="contact.html" title="email me">Contact</a> 100 101 <a href="javascript:void(0);" style="font-size:15px;" class="icon" onclick="myFunction()">☰</a> 102</div> 103 104<!--<div class='col-container'> 105 106<div class='column'> 107 108<h1 style=margin-top:0>About My Plaza</h1>--> 109<div class='col-container' style="margin:0em -1em 0 -.5em;"> 110<div class='column' style="margin-top:0em"> 111<h1 style="margin-top:0em">Welcome to My Plaza</h1> 112 113<div style="background-color:rgba(255, 255, 255, 0.3); border:.5px solid white; float:none; padding:0 .23em 0 .25em"> 114<p style="font-size:14pt; font-weight:700; line-height: 0.8;">plaza <span style="font-weight:300; color:darkgrey">'plazÉ, 'pläzÉ</span></p> 115<p style="font-size:10pt; font-weight:400; line-height: 1.0; ">noun <span style="color:darkgrey"><i>chiefly the Americas</i></span></p> 116<p style="font-size:10pt; font-weight:400; margin-left:.5em; line-height: 1.0">1. a public square, often toward the center of town</p> 117<p style="font-size:10pt; font-weight:400; margin-left:.5em; line-height: 1.0;">2. a web site people bookmark</p> 118<p style="font-size:10pt; font-weight:500; line-height: 1.0; color:darkgrey; font-variant: small-caps;">origin</p> 119<p style="font-size:10pt; font-weight:400; margin-left:.5em; line-height: 1.0;">late 17th century: from Spanish, lit. "place"</p> 120</div> 121 122 123<p>A plaza attracts people doing business, including an occasional drug 124deal, but more often shoppers among the artisan vendors or those dining out. 125Usually a cathedral borders the plaza, reminding me of <span 126title="Parks and Recreation, S7E7">Ron Swanson's, "Say what you will 127about organized religion, those bastards knew how to construct an 128edifice."</span></p> 129 130 131<p>From the plaza, of course, one may wander down a variety of streets. Some 132roads, the one that leads to <a class="homeanchor" 133href="white/God_Talk.html#CrucifiedWhoSacrificesJesusforWhom">Golgotha</a> 134for instance, may not be where most of us want to visit most of the 135time. (But it's there.)</p> 136 137<p>Many streets are purely secular in nature, as are many of the books reviewed. 138Agree or disagree, and feel free to leave <span 139title="which require a free and safe CommentBox registration (or just email 140me)">comments.</span></p> 141 142 143 144</div> 145 146<div class='column' > 147<p>Following definition number 2, this plaza includes...</p> 148 149<ul> 150<li><span title="books about which I have something to say, no matter when they were published">book reviews,</span> 151<li><span title="some short, some long, all attempts to understand something">articles,</span> 152<li><span title="including 'Person vs. Automobile' and my travel log, 'Not Without Sincerity'">links to my various web logs,</span> 153<li><span title="mostly about running events that I've shared with my children and friends">some personal videos,</span> 154<li><span title="to date, one by René Girard and one by me">a few recorded talks,</span> and 155<li><a href="memorize.html">short poems</a> by <span title="Shakespeare, Emily Dickenson, and others">real poets that you may want to memorize.</span> 156</ul> 157<p><a class="homeanchor" href="white/Sound1.html">One talk</a> explains why I do not call myself a Christian, 158which should not be understood as thinking of Jesus as anyone less than 159the Most Important Person, the person who makes all 160others important in the long run. </p> 161 162 163 164<p>The Plaza de Armas in Cusco has two cathedrals. 165<a href="white/images/plazadearmas-lg.jpg"><img src="white/images/plazadearmas-sm.jpg" alt="Plaza de Armas, Cusco" class="rcorners2"></a></p></div> 166 167<div class='column' ><strong>Search Site</strong> 168<div>
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