August 2008
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I thought this banana leaf picture was worth keeping, too. (Click for larger) Pre-TypePad http://js-kit.com/for/lightondarkwater.com/comments.js
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We watched The Incredibles last weekend—very entertaining; I recommend it. I had never seen an entire Pixar movie, and the animation really was pretty amazing, although the plastic look of the people bothers me. The movie opens with Mr. Incredible, a superhero, being interviewed on TV, and in light of the recent exchange here about…
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This is my favorite scene—no, let’s say rather the scene I remember most—from Plan 9 From Outer Space, which as you may know is widely considered to be the worst movie ever made: Pre-TypePad http://js-kit.com/for/lightondarkwater.com/comments.js
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A Crack in Everything Human beings are natural system-makers. From the moment our brains are developed enough to do so, we try to organize the flood of data pouring into them. This is natural and essential for our survival in a world that doesn’t make survival easy. And we don’t stop there, with systems of…
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What a lovely, graceful, gracious, serene, generous, and noble work. Not profound in itself, perhaps, as compared to some of the other symphonies, it seems to imply a consciousness of profundity, a sense that, yes, there are great questions and probably troubles to be dealt with, but at the moment life is showing us its…
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Standing where it ought not (cf. Mark 13:14), i.e., next door: From the time we moved here in 1992 until six months or so ago, there has been a patch of woods on the west side of our house (on the east, north, and south, too), even though we live in town. A few times…
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Cinderella, others arrested in Disneyland labor protest The photo is good, too. Pre-TypePad http://js-kit.com/for/lightondarkwater.com/comments.js
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(click for larger) Apparently I like the look of light shining through things. This is a banana leaf, on a tree in our yard. It isn’t quite the picture I wanted but it will do until I take a better one. Banana trees will grow fairly large here, although they are often killed back to…
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“It is, perhaps, the strongest mark of the divinity of man that he talks of this world as ‘a strange world,’ though he has seen no other.” —Chesterton Pre-TypePad http://js-kit.com/for/lightondarkwater.com/comments.js
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The view from under an umbrella during a thunderstorm a couple of Saturdays ago. I really like watching storms come across the bay. (click for larger view, as usual) Tomorrow I’ll post something more cheerful. Pre-TypePad http://js-kit.com/for/lightondarkwater.com/comments.js
Light On Dark Water 