November 2009
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Mobile Bay, as seen from the beach near my house on the eastern shore during tropical storm Ida: a few pictures taken about 7 this morning, as the storm was passing over. If it still had an eye, it must have been to the east, because the wind was out of the north. http://js-kit.com/for/lightondarkwater.com/comments.js
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…is most unwelcome. Already the former Hurricane Ida has weakened to tropical storm status, though, which is fortunate, because it’s heading straight for us. I don’t really anticipate serious problems, but it’s always possible, because of where I live, that a tree falling in the right place could cut off both my physical and electronic…
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Clare sent me a link to an interesting blog post about a Canadian Catholic’s encounter with the polarization in the American Church: I loved my Canadian theology school and its gentle, very Canadian, refusal to fight over stuff. Not so my American theology school, not so. When I got accepted into its program–and a great…
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I just finished the last episode, and I’m inclined to think so. David Simon says he wanted to do a novel on film. I think he succeeded. Possibly the Great American Novel of its time. But I am subject to enthusiasms, and possibly this one will wear off after a few days or weeks. Update:…
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This is Ellen and her dog Comrade (hers and her husband’s). This is the dog I referred to in a comment, on the dog and cat post below, as “humongous,” a description with which she disagreed. Her theory seems to be that if it can sit on your lap it isn’t humongous. Though he isn’t…
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Andrew Ferguson slams Bob in The Weekly Standard. I don’t really mind him bashing the excessive and uncritical adulation that some people give Dylan. And I don’t at all mind him calling Dylan’s junk what it is. A friend of mine, very much a Dylan fan, once said “Every Dylan album has at least one…
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A week or two ago in the comments on a previous post (I think it was the one about introverts) we were discussing dogs and cats, and the fact that some people are dog people and some are cat people. I said that I was of neither party. That was inaccurate. It would be more…
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By the time I finish writing this, it will probably have arrived. I suppose All Saints’ Day is really more significant, and more important in the Church calendar. But it’s All Souls’ Day that touches me more. It’s among those who are longing for God and seeking him, without knowing what it is that they…
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