November 2008
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(Photo by my wife, Karen Horton. You’re welcome to copy it for use on another site but I would appreciate your acknowledging its source. Thanks.) Pre-TypePad http://js-kit.com/for/lightondarkwater.com/comments.js
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Based on snippets heard here and there, I’ve wanted for some time to hear some genuine mariachi music. There’s a ton of it on eMusic—a search for “mariachi” turns up 153 artists and 117 albums, and that would catch only titles that actually included the word—but I had no way of knowing what was good.…
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Alabama 36, Auburn 0. I’m sorry, Auburn fans, I don’t like to gloat but this is sweet. I used to be willing to admit that Alabama fans are more obnoxious than Auburn fans, but that was before y’all started winning so much. Pre-TypePad http://js-kit.com/for/lightondarkwater.com/comments.js
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If I can find time for it over the Thanksgiving holiday, I plan to experiment some with this blog and with my home page(s)—I’m looking for a solution to the problem of publishing longer non-blog pieces in a way that doesn’t require a lot of hand-coding of HTML. Part of that will involve publishing it…
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I think we need a God, if only to have someone to thank. —Jessica Denenholz Levin Jessica Denenholz Levin was Dawn Eden’s grandmother; here is the post in which I read the statement above, which I immediately posted on my web site (before I added this blog). That elemental sense of gratitude is something that…
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Is the above sentence grammatically acceptable? I would say no. It really grates on my ear, and has the added negative of seeming to be one of those clumsy usages insisted upon by some feminists in order to avoid the use of a masculine term where both sexes are meant. I was taught (or at…
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Sunday Night Journal — November 23, 2008 With death, our life-choice becomes definitive—our life stands before the judge. Our choice, which in the course of an entire life takes on a certain shape, can have a variety of forms. There can be people who have totally destroyed their desire for truth and readiness to love,…
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“Gratitude is the best therapy.” Well said. Pre-TypePad http://js-kit.com/for/lightondarkwater.com/comments.js
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Your first reaction to the phrase “Heavy metal cello” might be to laugh; it sounds as if it would just be a stunt. Apocalyptica is four Finnish cellists, and I wonder if maybe their rock experimentation started out as something of a stunt, as their first album was a set of Metallica covers. But what…
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A few days ago at my desk: Yesterday on Arlo and Janis. Personally I believe Janis’s theory. But there’s no reason why they can’t both be right. Pre-TypePad http://js-kit.com/for/lightondarkwater.com/comments.js
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