June 2009
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A few months ago I walked out one Saturday morning and found a dead possum, a young one, lying in the street. It was so much the image of death that I took a picture of it, just as a reminder. I’m not going to shove the picture in your faces but you can see…
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UPDATE: I am definitely too distracted. This post sat here for three days reading “A few weeks ago I post something…” without my noticing it. I’d be surprised if no one else did. It’s okay to tell me if you spot something like that; in fact I’d appreciate it. A few weeks ago I posted…
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A week or so ago Janet mentioned St. Eustace to me, and when I said I didn’t know anything about him, she sent me this beautiful excerpt from Pilgrim Inn by Elizabeth Goudge. I like it so much I’m posting it. I’ve never read anything by Elizabeth Goudge, but on the basis of this I…
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My current Gmail chat status, a result of discussing the Doors here: People are strange when you’re a stranger. Janet’s: People are even stranger when you get to know them. Pre-TypePad http://js-kit.com/for/lightondarkwater.com/comments.js
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…but I thought this was tears-rolling-down-my-cheeks funny: the Facebook News Feed edition of Hamlet. (Hat tip to Dawn Eden). Pre-TypePad http://js-kit.com/for/lightondarkwater.com/comments.js
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If you pay any attention at all to pop music, you’ve probably heard of this album, an unlikely collaboration between the former singer of Led Zeppelin and the queen of pop bluegrass. I never expected to hear it, much less to like it. I never cared much for Led Zeppelin, and what I’ve heard of…
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That’s what my father used to say that his father used to say about the weather. The temperature here has been approaching 100F/38C—hotter than average for this time of year—for the past few days, and it hasn’t rained for over two weeks. My grass is starting to turn brown and I’ll have to water it…
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I’m afraid it’s me. Pre-TypePad http://js-kit.com/for/lightondarkwater.com/comments.js
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As I mentioned in a comment to Francesca the other day, my wife and I recently finished watching the third season of The Wire. The entire series so far has been extremely good, but whenever I offer that opinion to anyone I add that it’s half recommendation and half warning. The warning is there not…
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I’ve added the excellent site by that name to my links, which I’ve been meaning to do for a while. FPR is a collaborative effort on socio-political-culture themes by a group of people who describe themselves thusly: We come from different backgrounds, live in different places, and have divergent interests, but we’re convinced that scale,…
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