September 2009
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I didn’t really plan to stay up till 2am watching this movie. It’s sort of a long story but, believe it or not, it’s actually work-related: I can be pretty sure that nobody wants to use the system I’m working on at midnight Saturday night, and while I need to keep an eye on the…
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Now and then while browsing through the new releases on eMusic, something I’ve never heard of will catch my eye: an interesting title or a striking graphic, something that makes me wonder what the music is like, and listen to the 30-second samples. Most of the time that’s the end of it. But every now…
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This is something that, I am embarrassed to say, I should have done several weeks ago. First I didn’t know the person’s last name, and then I kept forgetting to do it except when I was not around a computer. Please pray for Kevin Gilmore. I don’t know him personally; he’s the brother-in-law of some…
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At Sally Thomas’s Icons and Curiosities blog, a link to a gallery of really, really unusual churches—from ancient chapels carved out of cliff walls to modernist madness. Really fascinating stuff. This reminds me that I’ve been meaning to add Icons and Curiosities to the blog roll, which I have now done. It’s subtitled “A Shopping…
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It’s simply astonishing that a few months ago I barely recognized this writer's name, and now she is of major importance to me. Even to say I barely recognized her name is almost an overstatement: it was the sort of faint uncertain recognition that one is not even sure really is recognition, and not just…
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…the leaves burn with the changing colors of the seasons and the color of each is its own gift that can never be repeated. —Elizabeth Goudge, The Heart of the Family Last fall I was thinking about the fact that we really don’t get much in the way of colorful leaves here. And I started…
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I’m reading another Elizabeth Goudge novel, The Heart of the Family, which is perhaps even better than Pilgrim’s Inn. At any rate I think that for various and often obscure personal reasons it may mean more to me. I’m not sure I’ll say very much about it here, just because there is too much to…
Light On Dark Water 