July 2008
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From that day at the Gulf a couple of weeks ago. (Click to enlarge) Pre-TypePad http://js-kit.com/for/lightondarkwater.com/comments.js
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Both Deal Hudson and self-proclaimed Rightwing Film Geek Victor Morton say it’s actually not too bad. I think I said, in reaction to the trailer, that unless the people who made the trailer were deliberately trying to make the movie look bad, it was going to be pretty terrible. I still don’t think it sounds…
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News from my town. Although the Coffee Loft is just a couple of blocks from my house I’m not acquainted with Willie Bean. Pre-TypePad http://js-kit.com/for/lightondarkwater.com/comments.js
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As you may have noticed if you’ve used Google today, it’s Beatrix Potter’s birthday. Which reminds me that I saw the movie based on her life, Miss Potter, a few months ago and thought it was excellent. And let us remember that the fact that a gentleman is civil and handsome does not mean that…
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Three Epiphanies Concerning Religion – Three This last epiphany came retroactively, as an illumination of something I had done more than twenty years earlier. The act it illuminated was my decision to become a Catholic, and it crystallized for me an essential difference between the Catholic and Protestant ways of looking at the sources of…
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“Hallelujah—I have finished that damned book.” One or two people may remember that I mentioned a month or so ago that I was reading a very long novel but didn’t want to name it until I had finished it. It was Atlas Shrugged. I’ve been wanting for some time to read it because it’s apparently…
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The 5th is to classical music as the Mona Lisa is to painting: a work so often seen, popularized, parodied, used in advertising, and in general made to serve as a representative or stereotype of its entire art form that it’s difficult to see it for itself anymore. It helps, then, in such a case…
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I was about to post another rainy picture, then thought maybe I should vary the atmosphere from time to time. (click to enlarge) Pre-TypePad http://js-kit.com/for/lightondarkwater.com/comments.js
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The infinite is not an abstraction without living reality; it lives, it thinks, it loves, it is free, it has a great name inscribed upon the portal of all life as the proper name of life itself; it is called God. —Fr. Henri-Dominique Lacordaire (Another gem from the daily meditations in Magnificat.) And this is…
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Three Epiphanies Concerning Religion – Two (The first is here.) The second of these epiphanies occurred within a couple of years of the first. I had two friends who had joined the Episcopal Church around the same time that I did. One of them, a very close friend, had in fact been an important influence…
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