Buffett’s Mistake – Again!

By Porter & Co. • Monday, June 1, 2026

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The Fatal Conceit Of Conglomerates

By Porter Stansberry • June 1, 2026

INSIDE TODAY’S ISSUE

• ESSAY: BUFFETT’S MISTAKE – AGAIN
• AI CONTINUES TO BOLSTER THE MARKET
• HYPERSCALERS GO GLOBAL ON DEBT
• WARSH’S NEW INFLATION MEASURE
• CHART OF THE DAY… VIRGIN GALACTIC (SPCE)
• TODAY’S MAILBAG

If there is a single “gift” I would provide to every Porter & Co subscriber, it is the ready ability to distinguish between an average business and a great business. 

Great businesses, like truly beautiful women, are rare. And for investors seeking to build real, lasting wealth, finding them is everything. With a great business, time is in your favor. With a great business, every recession is only an opportunity to gain share. With a great business, you don’t ever worry about competitors – they simply come and go.

I’ve written an entire book showing you exactly how to identify a great business. It’s called Warren’s Mistakes, and it walks readers through how Warren Buffett beat the S&P 500 by 11% per year for 30 years. He did it with a portfolio of America’s greatest businesses: Coke, American Express, The Washington Post Company, Gillette, McDonald’s, Disney, and Moody’s.

Of course, the best way to learn anything, as Berkshire Hathaway (BRK) vice chair Charlie Munger explained constantly, is to invert. That’s why my book doesn’t merely explain Buffett’s success, it focuses on his mistakes.

While I must admit it is unlikely that I will ever get you to read my book, I hope I can at least show you some of the lessons in it by looking carefully at the deal Berkshire announced today, the purchase of Taylor Morrison Home (TMHC).

Taylor Morrison is America’s sixth-largest homebuilder. Berkshire is paying $72.50 per share in cash — a 24% premium to where the stock closed Friday. That equals an enterprise value of $8.5 billion. And it values the business, on an enterprise basis, at roughly 10.7x 2025’s $791 million in net income. In the press release, Berkshire’s new CEO, Greg Abel, called Taylor Morrison “a best-in-class national homebuilder.”

Unfortunately, for Berkshire shareholders, it’s not. It isn’t even close. And I’d bet long-time readers of my work know what Berkshire should have bought instead.

In November 2007, in the depths of the housing collapse, I explained to investors why there’s only one homebuilder in America worth owning – NVR (NVR). Not because the others weren’t cheap – they were all cheap, down more than 50% from their highs. But because only one of them is a genuinely great business. I called NVR “not only the best company in the homebuilder sector” but “one of the truly exceptional businesses in the world.”

NVR went bankrupt in the early 1990s. It owned too much land and thus had too much debt to survive the 1990-91 recession. The experience turned its managers into fanatics about capital discipline.

Necessity is the mother of invention. As the company emerged from bankruptcy, it didn’t have enough capital to buy huge swaths of land. So it had to partner with developers. In the process, it invented the “land-lite” housing model. NVR doesn’t own raw land. It pays small, non-refundable deposits to option finished lots from third-party developers. It only takes title when someone is ready to buy a house. If a market sours, NVR walks away and forfeits the deposit. It never gets stuck holding billions in depreciating dirt.

The result, as I wrote in 2007, was “the highest returns on assets in the sector” and a balance sheet that was “nearly debt-free.”Those facts are still true today. NVR was trading around $400 a share when I recommended it in 2007. It trades above $6,000 today – despite a big recent drawdown as the housing market has suffered over the last two years.

It isn’t hard to compare NVR to Taylor Morrison, although doing so feels like picking on a retarded kid. In 2025, NVR earned a 44% return on invested capital (“ROIC”) and a 33% return on equity (“ROE”). Taylor Morrison earned 11% ROIC and 13% ROE. Over the full decade from 2016 through 2025, NVR’s ROIC averaged roughly 50%. Taylor Morrison’s averaged about 9%.

NVR earns 50 cents of operating profit for every dollar of capital employed. Taylor Morrison can’t crack a double-digit return on capital. So… why would anyone ever want to own that business?

Keep in mind, they build houses in the same country, at similar prices, to similar customers, at nearly identical gross margins – around 23% last year. The difference is not what they sell. It’s how much capital they have to bury in the ground to sell it.

You can see exactly where the capital goes. Taylor Morrison ended last year with $6.5 billion of inventory – land and houses – on its balance sheet. NVR, while generating more revenue, carried $1.7 billion of inventory. NVR turns its inventory more than 4x a year; Taylor Morrison turns it less than once. NVR converts a sale to cash in about 71 days. Taylor Morrison takes 376 days – its money sits trapped in dirt for more than a year before it comes back.

And the balance sheets tell the rest of the story. NVR ended 2025 with $1.9 billion in cash and negative net debt. NVR maintains a net cash position. Taylor Morrison carries net debt of more than 1x earnings before interest, taxes, depreciation, and amortization (“EBITDA”). One company is built to survive the next downturn and buy when everyone else is forced to sell. The other will spend the next bust the way the bad builders spent the last one: negotiating with its bankers.

But that’s not the real advantage.

What you’ll learn when you read Warren’s Mistakes is the enormous advantage capital efficient businesses have over time. You see, because NVR uses so little capital, it can return almost all of it. The company shovels mountains of cash into buybacks – $1.8 billion of stock repurchased in 2025 alone. Over the last decade, NVR shrank its share count 25% and drove earnings per share 4x – from about $104 to $437.

That is a compounding machine. And it is going to continue compounding, whether this housing slump lasts another year or another decade.

Taylor Morrison buys stock too: shares of other marginal builders, most recently William Lyon Homes and AV Homes. How’s that working out? It’s a bigger pile of capital that is generating meager 9% returns. That is not value creation. That is empire-building, which is exactly what Greg Abel is doing at Berkshire.

Ironically, this isn’t the first time Berkshire has made this mistake.

In 2003, Berkshire paid $1.7 billion to take Clayton Homes private. And, just like today, what Berkshire got was a capital-hungry, marginal business. Clayton is a manufactured-housing company bolted to a high-interest lender. How does it make money? It sells trailer homes to poor people. The homes depreciate faster than the loans amortize. Sure, poor people need somewhere to live, but this is a very tough business because, quite simply, its product doesn’t create any value for the people who buy it. It’s clearly a business that Berkshire shouldn’t have ever bought.

And it didn’t just buy Clayton – it has invested heavily in growing it. It built Clayton’s mortgage portfolio from $5.4 billion in 2003 to more than $13 billion today. It bought up the plants, stores, and loan books of failed competitors, too. The real capital employed by Berkshire into Clayton today isn’t $1.7 billion – it’s more like $13 billion to $15 billion.

These enormous, ongoing capital investments are what Berkshire’s conglomerate model is designed to hide. Let me explain.

Measured against the original $1.7 billion check, Clayton looks like a triumph: its roughly $1.9 billion of pre-tax earnings in 2024 is more than the entire purchase price! But once you count all the capital Berkshire has sunk into Clayton – the loan book, the factories, the competitors it bought – the return on capital employed collapses to roughly 12% to 14% pre-tax, or about 9% to 11% after tax. That is a mediocre, single-digit-to-low-double-digit business. It is, in other words, the same 9% return as Taylor Morrison.

But what if Berkshire had just bought the best business in the industry, NVR, and never invested another penny?

NVR earns a 44% ROIC – roughly 3x to 4x the return Clayton Homes generates on capital. Had Berkshire taken the same $1.7 billion it spent on Clayton equity in 2003 and simply bought NVR, that stake would be worth about $22 billion today – a 13-fold gain – without another dollar invested, because NVR funds itself and hands its cash back (via share buybacks).

Run those same returns with the full $13 billion to $15 billion Berkshire has tied up in Clayton, and the delta becomes obscene. The realistic, conservative cost of choosing Clayton over NVR is somewhere north of $50 billion in forgone value. Berkshire didn’t just pick the wrong horse. It spent two decades shoveling feed into it.

Now with the Taylor Morrison deal, Abel says Berkshire intends to “unify our site-built homebuilding operations into a combined platform.” In other words: take the bad manufactured-housing bet, staple a capital-heavy, single-digit-return site-built homebuilder to it, and call the combination “strategy.” This is the entire conglomerate fantasy expressed in a single deal. And it won’t work.

What Berkshire should do is spin off or sell Clayton Homes and invest the capital into America’s best homebuilder, a company that creates tremendous value for its customers and its shareholders. That’s NVR.

Here is the part that should make every Berkshire shareholder wince.

Berkshire’s entire genius – the thing that made it the greatest compounding story in the history of American capitalism – was using insurance float to buy wonderful businesses. Float is other people’s money: premiums collected today against claims paid years from now. It costs almost nothing, and it grows. Buffett’s insight was that you could take that nearly free capital and invest it in the best businesses in the world – Coca-Cola, American Express, GEICO, See’s Candies – capital-light compounders that throw off cash.

A naive investor will look at Taylor Morrison trading below book value and call it a bargain. But the book value is the disease, not the cure. You are paying 90 cents on the dollar for $6.5 billion of slow-turning land that earns 9%. Buffett, of all people, taught us that price-to-book is meaningless once a business stops needing the capital.

Strip away the names, and the deal is depressingly familiar. Berkshire passes on the wonderful, capital-light, publicly traded compounder. It pays a premium for the capital-hungry, low-return business. It takes the bad business private, where its poor economics can hide. And it calls the whole thing a long-term commitment to housing.

It is the railroad and the utilities all over again.

Read my book. And don’t buy Berkshire Hathaway.

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1. Artificial Intelligence (“AI”) stocks fuel the bull market. Goldman Sachs has created two market indexes that split the S&P 500 into a basket of AI-related and non-AI-related stocks. Since February 27, the day before the market correction sparked by the Iran War, the basket of AI stocks has provided all of the gains while non-AI stocks have generated a negative return – a theme we’ve seen for the past three years.

2. AI is taking over the world’s bond markets. AI hyperscalers – including Alphabet (GOOG), Amazon (AMZN), Meta Platforms (META), and Microsoft (MSFT) – have doubled non-dollar debt issuance to 30% of their total bond funding this year, according to Bank of America. Alphabet, in particular, is now the fourth-largest pound-sterling corporate borrower and a top-10 issuer in euros, yen, and Swiss francs – setting borrowing records across all four currencies to fund the trillions it plans to spend on AI data centers. Every major bond market on Earth is now long the AI trade.

3. New Fed chair wants a new inflation ruler. Federal Reserve Chair Kevin Warsh is looking to trim the parts of the inflation metric with the most extreme monthly price moves. To do so, he points to the Dallas Fed’s personal consumption expenditures (“PCE”) formula that measured inflation at 2.3% in April, a full point under the 3.3% core PCE, dumping the energy shock the Iran war is causing. The economists who built the PCE measure are warning Warsh off from doing this, noting it will badly understate persistent inflation.

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In Friday’s Daily Journal Justin Brill wrote about how the crypto space has been changing in the last few years, gaining wider adoptrion by key financial institutions. Readers share their thoughs…

“Crypto” — Hugh S. Writes:

Justin and Porter:

Thanks for this and you are so right. Hang on for the ride.

This is going to be bigger than TPL.

Readers have continued to write in about Porter’s new, now best-selling book, which he published last month. 2029: The End of America is available on Amazon.

“Europe Versus America” — Lee B. Writes:

2029: The End of America, like all of your work, is thoroughly researched, well documented, cogently argued, and interesting to read. Any thoughts on how subscribers in Europe might be affected differently, if at all? Do you think the Euro will fare any better than the dollar? Thanks

“Cantillion Geography” — Bill W. Writes:

Hey Porter

You said, ‘Tell me what you think of today’s Journal… good, bad, or anything inbetween.’

Okay: You nailed it.

Here’s my proofs:

#1. In 1969, the local Safeway grocery store offered me a bagging job right out of high school, a union job! I declined because I was going to be out of the country for two years and wanted to have some fun first. I returned in 1972 and wanted to get married. So I went back to Safeway to grab that bagging job: “Sorry, we don’t have any openings right now.” I couldn’t get that same job, or any other, because Nixon killed the dollar whilst I was overseas, and jobs dried up. By the time I got gainfully employed, my fiancé dropped me! Her dad said, “The bum doesn’t have a job. And I’ll pay for your out-of-state college tuition!” I don’t blame her – marry a guy with no job? Don’t blame her one bit. I felt like a bum, too, because I was a hard worker and could not find work. So I painted houses to get through college.

#2. In 1975, I bought a house in Los Angeles for $48,500. Four years later, I sold it for $149,000 and moved out of state.

#3. We moved two more times between 1980 and 1993, each time, making money (correction, “harvesting inflation”).

#4. In 1993, we bought a house in Alexandria, Virginia, for $174,000. We sold it in 2014 for $525,000. Note that we lived in your Washington, D.C., Cantillon area for 28 years. We both worked for a couple of members of Congress, then moved on to the lobbying shops where I was a policy analyst and Karen was a speechwriter for a) the Republican National Committee, b) President Bush, and c) two industries: insurance and manufacturers of wooden pallets and containers. We were in that lower-middle rung of the advocacy industry – not among the ones making millions.

Summary: I’ve lived through much of what your article talks about, and lived inside the Cantillion geography. You nailed it.

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Anthony Scaramucci says Trump uses “narcissism and his bullying” to hold power and claims the president is “not genuinely liked by anyone.” Continue Reading ➔7 Basic Materials Stocks to Buy to Anchor Your Portfolio– Ad

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🧨Anthropic Crashes the SpaceX IPO Party… Donnie Gets Left on Read

The same intrusive thoughts that directed Dario Amodei to announce on live tv that 50% of tech workers would be coked out of their minds and pan handling on the street soon… once again made a surprise entrance.

Because now that we’ve officially entered June (aka SpaceX IPO countdown season), Anthropic has decided to steal a little of the spotlight.

The AI company behind Claude (and one of the few firms on Earth capable of making OpenAI glance nervously over its shoulder) has reportedly filed to go public.

You just know Elon’s fuming right now scrolling Twitter seeing “finfluencers” crank out Substack posts with headlines like “Bigger Than SpaceX?” despite spending last week explaining how Anthropic leasing capacity from Colossus was actually a massive win for Musk’s upcoming IPO. (How the turn tables).

Anyways, stonks were in the green yet again thanks to Nvidia’s new laptop chip and Iran peace talks both doing their part. The S&P 500 (+.5%) and the Nasdaq (+.7%) continued their legendary run… while the Dow did absolutely nothing.

Of course, the biggest WTF moment of the day was Nvidia (+5%) which had AI bros going nuts after Jensen unveiled a new processor for PCs that he claims could replace the need for data centers. In response, Intel got taken to the cleaners (-3%) with “I’m scared I’m gonna lose my job” energy that not even a Trump sympathy tweet could help.

Outside of Dario wearing a white dress to Elon’s wedding, and Jensen Huang claiming to have the biggest computer revelation in the last 40 years… Marathon (+3%), Exxon (+2%), and Chevron (+1%) all caught a bid after Iran’s media reported they are done communicating with Donnie and will completely shut the Strait close once again. This comes after Israel attacked Lebanon over the weekend.

When asked about his response, POTUS exclaimed he doesn’t give af if peace negotiations with Iran are over (summarized). He then said he would ask Benjamin Netanyahu “what’s going on with Lebanon.” So yeah, major progress is clearly being made.

And lastly, light one up for Greg Abel who finally did something with that record $397 billion cash pile. In true Buffett fashion, instead of buying a tech stock or something sexy, he opted for spending 2% of it on the homebuilder Taylor Morrison. The stock exploded 22% because when Warren Abel writes you a check…your business must be a sleeping giant.

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Greg Abel Finally Opens Berkshire’s $397B Piggy Bank… Drops $6.8B on America’s Housing Market

Babe, wake up! Greg Abel finally found the “Buy” button on Berkshire’s brokerage account…

No this is not a dream… after more than 5 months of officially wearing the Berkshire Hathaway CEO badge, and sitting in the big office with a view… Warren Buffett’s handpicked replacement has finally pulled the trigger on his first multi-billion acquisition.

Meaning: we’re finally going to be able to judge him off of you know what he was hired for… as opposed to nitpicking quotes he…

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Nvidia Gives PCs Their ChatGPT Moment with AI Superchip Designed to Shrink the Datacenter

Because for Jensen, the world is not enough…

Most CEOs spend their careers trying to dominate survive in one industry. Jensen Huang appears to be collecting them. Because after turning Nvidia into a $5 trillion monopoly by selling every GPU on earth to hyperscalers with AI fever, Huang has now decided it’s time to come for the thing sitting on your desk. 

At Computex in Taiwan, the GPU king unveiled his new RTX Spark “superchip” for Windows PCs.  And if Jensen gets his way, not only will all our computers operate at supersonic speed… but it will make society as a whole…

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>Strategy shares fall after selling $2.5 million in bitcoin, its first sale since 2022 (CNBC):RIP to the “never sell” king.

>IBM Soars On Resurfaced Trump Clip, Barclays Buy Rating As MoMo Rally Accelerates (Zerohedge):Polymarket single-handedly keeping the meme stock era alive.

>AI revolution is ‘50x bigger’ than the dot-com boom: SoftBank’s Masayoshi Son (CNBC): What happened after the dot-com boom? Asking for a friend.

>Affirm CEO Max Levchin on leaders blaming firings on AI: Own your bad decisions (Yahoo Finance): Affirm next quarter: So we’ve decided to lay off 10% of our company because of AI efficiency.

Barry Diller Bids $18B to Take MGM Private, Betting AI Can’t Lose It’s A$$ At a Craps Table…

Ole Diller has a fever, and the only prescription is full-send degeneracy… 

Well friends, the GOAT who owns Tinder, Match, and Expedia has decided the real money is in the part of the weekend where the degens lose it all. Barry Diller’s People Inc. offered Monday to buy the 74% of MGM Resorts it doesn’t already own, valuing the casino giant north of $18 billion. 

The bid, for those wondering, is $48.30 a share, all cash, a 10.6% premium to Friday’s close and the kind of offer that tends to get a board’s full attention. MGM stock lit up 12%. Shares of People… the company formerly known as IAC, which rebranded itself around a magazine in April… managed a comparatively shy 3%. 

For context, six years Diller has been content playing just the tip, sitting on 26.1% and a board seat without committing. Monday he decided to buy the whole house. So y now? Apparently, the desire for an 84-year-old media titan to drop $18 big ones on carpet and slot machines simply has to do with the fact that the robots can’t touch it. He told shareholders MGM is “a… 

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Honeywell Backed Quantinuum Moons IPO Offering By 39% (High Error Rates Incoming)

“60% of the time, it works every time…” – Brian Fantana Quantinuum’s S-1, probably… 

Honeywell’s quantum spinout filed a prospectus that says, out loud, “high error rates” still “limit practical performance.” Then it upsized their IPO offering by 39% (because, math). Quantinuum (read: not just a thermostat company’s hobby anymore) yanked its filing, came back, and reset the deal at 26.5 million shares between $53 and $55, up from 21 million at $45 to $50. The top end values a company in the “early stages of commercial growth” at $14.3 billion. Translation: The building is open, bookies. 

For the uninitiated, quantum computing is the new AI in the sense that everyone wants to own it and nobody can explain it (kinda like Palantir). Quantinuum’s S-1 tells you the machines crunch problems “faster than classical computers” and could reshape drug discovery, financial modelling, and cryptography. It also notes, with the politeness of a confession, that “high error rates” still “limit practical performance.” Fine print doing a lot of work in one sentence.

Of course, demand was strong enough to upsize the float and lift the range by 16%. Which is precisely the move you make when retail is camped outside the building, with the macro window for “buy any company that sounds like a Nolan movie” open for exactly this week, before SpaceX backs the brinks truck up to the same parking lot. You might recall that Quantinuum exists because Honeywell stapled its quantum lab to… 

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The Iran War Just Broke the Gold Market

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The Iran war isn’t just a geopolitical event.

It’s a financial one.

Within hours of the strikes, oil surged…

Defense stocks exploded…

And gold ripped past $5,000.

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Wars don’t just move markets.

They expose broken financial systems.

For decades, the price of gold has been controlled by paper contracts traded between the largest banks in the world.

But wars create a problem for that system.

Because when global tensions rise, investors stop trusting paper promises.

They want the real thing.

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A Reflection From Fr. Bill Muller, S.J.

Vice President for Mission and Identity

“The man who does not read good books is no better than the man who can’t.”
-Mark Twain (1835-1910, American writer, humorist, entrepreneur, publisher, and lecturer)

For the past few years I’ve offered some book titles to check out for summer reading, so let me do so again. Given the dramatic increase in book banning in the United States in the last few years, two of these books may well be on somebody’s list for banning, but worth the read, I think. If the other five are on somebody’s list, then we are in worse shape than I thought. I’ll leave it to you to decide.

An Altar in the World, A Geography of Faith (Barbara Brown Taylor, Harper Collins 2009)
If St. Ignatius Loyola were to write a promo for this book, I think he’d write, “This is a great help in rethinking how to find God in all things!” There are altars everywhere and in all facets of our lives. Sanctity is found in the mundane as well as in the extraordinary, in fact probably more so in the ordinary, everyday. We have to learn to rethink how and where to find God all the time. If Mary Oliver were to write a promo, she’d write, “Pay attention, be amazed, and let Barbara Brown Taylor tell you about it.”

Circe (Madeline Miller, Little, Brown, 2018)
When I was in high school we had to read Edith Hamilton’s Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes. Madeline Miller’s The Song of Achilles (2011) and Circe are told with perhaps a modern day slant which I am sure some will say has more agenda to the story-telling than the original Greek tales. But the Greeks certainly had their agenda for telling the stories in the first place. Whatever – just good stories and a refresher from my long-ago high school myth readings.
In Time of Distance & Other Poems (Alexander McCall Smith, Pantheon Books, 2020)
The Scottish author is known for his No. 1 Ladies Detective Agency series (1998-2026), the Isabel Dalhousie books (2004-2026), and the 44 Scotland Streetbooks (2005-2026), and a bunch of others. He’s a fanciful and engaging writer whom I’m happy to recommend, especially the No. 1 Ladies Detective Agency. I stumbled on this book of poems at our public library. It’s different from his stories, but has the same lightness of heart. And poetry is always important for the soul.

The Molly Murphy Mysteries (Rhys Bowen with Clare Broyles, Minotaur Books, 2001-2026)
Rhys Bowen is the pen name of Brophy faculty member Tim Broyles’ mother-in-law. The last three books in the 20 book series are co-authored by Tim’s mother-in-law and Tim’s wife Clare. The wonderful main character, Molly Murphy, is a female detective in early 1900s New York City, married to a policeman and raising a family. She is quite adept at solving crimes and mysteries before the men on the scene can. The history of the time and place are well researched, so along with the crime solving, we get a good look at the Big Apple when it was becoming itself.

Paul, a Biography (N.T. Wright, HarperOne, 2018)
Tom Wright (1948-) is an English scripture scholar, theologian, and Anglican bishop who has authored more than 80 books and has taught at Cambridge, McGill, St. Andrews, and Oxford Universities. His works are very readable, yet based in real scholarship and theology. I just recently read this biography of St. Paul and it was for me a whole new window into the life and the beliefs of Paul of Tarsus. Until now, Paul was pretty far down on my list of folks to meet in heaven because he seems, often enough, so disagreeable and harsh in some of his writing. After reading Wright’s Paul, I look forward to meeting him!

Queen Esther (John Irving, Simon & Schuster, 2025)
John Irving has been writing books since 1968 and there are certain themes, you might even say social justice themes, woven through many of his novels. Family in many forms, the dignity of misunderstood persons, care for those mistreated because they are different – my Catholic morality doesn’t agree with some of Irving’s way of dealing with the issues he writes about in his stories, but his characters and their issues are real. From the title you can guess that Jewish culture and antisemitism plays a big part. But the story isn’t about the scripture’s Queen Esther or Esther Nacht, a Jewish orphan in the early 20th century that starts the novel – it’s about Jimmy Winslow, Esther’s son and his college junior year abroad. Like all Irving novels, this one is a fun read with characters I really got to know and like. Not my favorite Irving tale, but glad to have read it.

Theo of Golden (Allen Levi, Atria Books, 2023)
I’m not sure how many times I’ve heard the story of the newly ordained priest who asked an older priest for three pieces of advice and the older priest says,”be kind, be kind, be kind.” An elderly Theo in Allen Levi’s novel shows up in the city of Golden, Georgia, and through 400 pages we experience Theo’s kindness, and not just three times. I was captured by Theo and all the people he meets and connects with. I was left remembering Naomi Nye’s poem “Kindness” that when we enter into someone else’s life with empathy and understanding, we are left with kindness that “goes with you everywhere like a shadow or a friend.” My favorite book this year.

June Dates of Note

Pride Month

6 – D-Day, World War II (1944)
7 – Solemnity of Corpus Christi
9-15 – National Men’s Health Week
11 – Feast of the Apostle Barnabas
12 – Solemnity of the Sacred Heart
Assassination of Medgar Evans (1963)
13 – Feast of the Immaculate Heart of Mary
Supreme Court Ruling Miranda v Arizona (1966)
14 – Flag Day
15 – Father’s Day
Signing of the Magna Carta (1215)
19 – Juneteenth
20 – World Refugee Day
Summer Solstice
21 – World Day of Music
24 – Feast of the Nativity of John the Baptist
29 – Feast of Saints Peter and Paul
William Mayo’s Birthday (1861-1939)

Pope Leo’s Prayer Intention for June

For the values of sports

Let us pray that sports be an instrument of peace, encounter, and dialogue among cultures and nations, and that they promote values such as respect, solidarity, and personal growth.

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