March 2009
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Over at the Inside Catholic blog, Zoey Romanowsky has a nice weekly feature which I’ve been meaning to mention, “Flannery Friday,” in which she posts a quote from Flannery O’Connor. Usually it’s from one of O’Connor's letters collected in The Habit of Being. I especially liked this week’s entry. It’s from a letter to the…
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The other day when I posted a picture of the shy and modest spiderwort I mentioned that there are so many azaleas around here that I almost stop noticing them. Here’s what I was talking about. Take that, Woodward. I call the picture above “an azalea” because that seems to be the custom around here—people…
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Related to the previous post: when I was a sophomore or junior in college, in the late ’60s, I had to take a couple of psychology courses—a social science requirement or something. One of them was something like Psych 102, not the first course but not very far along, either. In an early attempt to…
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I’ve known several people who report having dreams like the one described in this cartoon from xkcd (click for larger version if you can’t read it). I’m pretty sure I’ve mentioned this before, but it may have been in a comment discussion: this sort of dream seems to be a fairly widespread phenomenon, but I…
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Two of my favorites: “Alison,” from Souvlaki, with a rather nice somewhat ’60s-nostalgic video; where are the girls of yesteryear? (3:34): “Waves,” from Just For a Day—no video, just the album cover. This would be a candidate for my favorite Slowdive song. It seems to be about death, forgiveness, and salvation (5:54): The lyrics are…
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There are so many azaleas blooming here at this time of year that I almost stop noticing them. Instead, it’s this little flower that represents the real arrival of spring to me. They pop up in the yard and close by, and I always try to avoid mowing until they’ve stopped blooming. This picture is…
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“Sitting in it…I find myself striking an action pose quite unconsciously.” What is it? Warp factor definitely operative, I would say. (Hat tip to Will.) Pre-TypePad http://js-kit.com/for/lightondarkwater.com/comments.js
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I tend to forget that the people who read this blog don’t necessarily read the Caelum et Terra blog. So, apropos the discussion of the Byzantine liturgy in the comments on the previous post, if you haven’t already seen it you might want to check out Daniel’s post about his Byzantine Rite parish. Pre-TypePad http://js-kit.com/for/lightondarkwater.com/comments.js
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In New Orleans on Sunday we went to Mass at St. Patrick’s, where there is a weekly Sunday morning Tridentine Mass (note to non-Catholics: this is what’s commonly referred to as “the old Mass” or “the old liturgy”—it’s in Latin and is different in other significant ways from the current Mass in local languages). I want…
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I’m going to be out of town and away from computers for most of the weekend. So when you want a hit of LoDW, you can listen to and watch these over and over again instead of reading some balderdash from me. They say a lot of what I want to say but can’t, anyway.…
Light On Dark Water 