December 2007
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The Secret History of the Sunday Night Journal A double-minded man is unstable in all his ways.—James 1:8 The end of 2007 marks the fourth full year since I began this web site and the Sunday Night Journal. It thereby constitutes one of the most sustained efforts at writing that I’ve ever achieved (the other…
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Finally. Alabama 30, Colorado 24. Pre-TypePad http://js-kit.com/for/lightondarkwater.com/comments.js
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I know, that sounds like the title of some sleazy Playboy feature. But what I mean is: what a great amount of work the women of the world do to make the Christmas holidays what they are, and what a great deal of appreciation they deserve for it. All the shopping and cooking and decorating…
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Arlo and Janis is pretty much my favorite comic strip; Dilbert is the only near competitor. My wife and children have often accused me of secretly being its author, or at least the model for Arlo. He’s not actually that much like me, but we have enough in common that it’s occasionally startling. My wife…
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This is where I'll be at midnight tonight. Oddly, there's a whole web site devoted to the Cathedral, and yet very few good pictures of it. Here is all you get of the windows. You can see the exterior here. I went to Christmas midnight Mass here about ten years ago, and it was completely…
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The Shepherd’s Complaint I’d hoped to have as this week’s journal a presentable first draft of a poem I’ve been working on, but as usual the combination of other demands on my time and my own difficulty in concentrating have kept that from happening. The poem is still some hours’ work away from completion even…
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I refer to the annual viewing of the most awesomest feat of engineering for the pure fun of it ever performed: Pre-TypePad http://js-kit.com/for/lightondarkwater.com/comments.js
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At the risk of annoying readers who are not religous (I think I have a few), I must express my irritation at this popular phrase. It’s both self-congratulatory and far less coherent than those who use it generally seem to realize. The self-congratulation is in the clear implication that the “spiritual” speaker is superior to…
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Ok, so it's almost the end of the week. Better late than never. (staff photo) Pre-TypePad http://js-kit.com/for/lightondarkwater.com/comments.js
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