July 2008
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Here, finally, in the first two movements, is the Beethoven I love. I accept, on the testimony of people who understand the technical aspects of music, that the Third Symphony is a great achievement from that point of view, and that it does things that no one had done before. And as I said when…
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This is from one of the daily meditations in Magnificat: Man’s desires are, in some extraordinary way, the image of God’s desire…. Our desires can only be understood in the light of God’s desire…. We must not shut our hearts against desire, but learn how to desire rightly…. We cannot learn to love God by…
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I’ve added a link in the sidebar to Janet’s undead thread—the one on which most recent comments have been made and which is attached to no post, which ordinarily would be the source of life for a comment thread (hence “undead”). It’s a bit like a zombie process in Unix, but those are really more…
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My wife’s sister and her husband (not my wife’s, her sister’s) live on a bayou that opens onto a bay that opens onto the Gulf of Mexico, a thirty mile or so drive from here. They invited us down for the Fourth of July and we had a wonderful time. These are a few of…
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Amusing thread at The Other World (alias Clio’s blog). Pre-TypePad http://js-kit.com/for/lightondarkwater.com/comments.js
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Gone To A Better Place The goodbye party is a feature of life in any workplace. Someone takes another job or retires, and the occasion is observed with a gathering that may be anything from a few friends and co-workers having lunch to an institution-wide party involving food, drink, gifts, and speeches, depending on the…
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Considered objectively, I’m sure this is not the best Ornette Coleman album, but it’s a sort of sentimental favorite for me, partly for non-musical reasons. I listened to it a good bit at a particularly dark time of my life, and, as we used to say back then, it took me to a good place;…
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To those in the U.S., of course. My wife took this a few years ago during the annual fireworks display from the Fairhope pier, which we can see from the bay shore near our house. They’re very pretty over the water. I like the sound almost as much as the sight, and the game of…
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Well, yeah, there's the 4th and all, but don't forget the Twilight Zone marathon–in progress now and continuing until early Saturday morning. Pre-TypePad http://js-kit.com/for/lightondarkwater.com/comments.js
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It was a great concert. I’m not sorry I paid $100 for it. If you’re a fan, don’t miss a chance to see him. Details follow for those interested. Let me get the negative out of the way first. At least for live performances, Waits seems to have abandoned most of his many vocal styles…
Light On Dark Water 