A few older posts that include some Katrina pics: here, here, here. The pics at the end of this post are especially telling. Pre-TypePad http://js-kit.com/for/lightondarkwater.com/comments.js

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I had hoped to write about Beethoven’s 7th this week, but I’ve been too busy and distracted by Hurricane Gustav for the past several days to listen to music. Maybe next week. Pre-TypePad http://js-kit.com/for/lightondarkwater.com/comments.js

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Clare took these, last summer or fall sometime I think. I really like the colors in this one. (Click the images for larger versions.) The noble dog faithfully awaits her master’s return from the sea. Sometimes the noble dog needs to take a little time for herself. A sail! A sail! Patience rewarded as the…

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I had a bit of car trouble yesterday—the engine cut out several times and I thought I was going to get stranded on the Bayway, which is a bad place to get stranded. But I managed to limp off the bridge and get the car to a shop. When I picked it up I saw…

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Every now and then I'm struck by what has to go on behind the scenes to keep the wheels of modern life turning. Much of it is admirable for its complexity and ingenuity, and fascinating for its unnoticed importance. Some of it is less so. If I stop and think about it, I know that…

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Taking A Chance On Love When as a young man I first heard of Pascal’s wager, I thought it was a silly and trivial way of approaching the question of Christian faith. But thirty years later it makes much more sense to me; in fact it almost seems like the only way to choose. (The…

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I was about to skip Music of the Week, not having had time to write, but instead I’ll point you to a couple of wonderful songs from The Clientele’s wonderful album, Suburban Light, because I was listening to them on my drive this weekend and thinking how much I like them. If you’re old enough…

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For what is the good of being a man at all if one is not always trying to know the unknowable? —Chesterton Pre-TypePad http://js-kit.com/for/lightondarkwater.com/comments.js

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But you love to let me go into a cloud where knowledge does not dwell and where all things are still and wrapped in love and you. I love the cloud, the silence, the love, and you; and I love the pain, the darkness, and the strange rain of things that happen by your will…

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I’m supposed to be driving up to north AL on Saturday. Probably we’ll only get a very heavy rain and some strong but not very destructive winds. Probably. What does this stupid storm think it’s doing? They aren’t supposed to behave like this. If it sticks to this path and speed it will be within…

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