January 2010
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Dealing with the question every parent has to answer—Will my dog/cat/bird/fish/any-kind-of-pet go to heaven? Is it dead forever?—this is one of the best meditations on the old question of the relationship of earthly to eternal existence I’ve ever read: Hard as it is to comprehend not missing the things of this world which we love,…
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Ash Wednesday is only two and a half weeks away, and I’ve been making an effort to think about Lent a little before it gets here this year. Usually it seems to appear so suddenly that I’m a week or so into it before really becoming attentive to it. I’ve decided what reading I’m going…
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I haven’t read him in decades—not since college, if my memory is correct. His name has come up in public several times over the years in connection with some scandalous or creepy story. I don’t know how much I’d like his work now, but I suspect the answer is not very much. But Catcher in…
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At All Manner of Thing. (Craig says he thinks my review is better; I disagree.) http://js-kit.com/for/lightondarkwater.com/comments.js
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Sunday Night Journal — January 24, 2010 This is another topic I that need to get out of the way before I can focus primarily on the memoir upon which I’ve embarked. It’s a bit of unfinished business from last year, and there will be at least one more installment, possibly two. Back in April…
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For several reasons, including a football game (Geaux Saints!), I’m not ready to post the Sunday night journal, and won’t be until late tonight or sometime tomorrow. Since I haven’t posted anything since Friday I thought I’d post another picture from the same foggy morning as this one. It was taken from the road in…
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Extracted from the previous photo, and with more contrast: If this were a TV show or a movie, I would have a button labelled “Enhance Image” and you would be able to read the number on the band on the heron’s leg, if it has one. http://js-kit.com/for/lightondarkwater.com/comments.js
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This is one of those things that’s so good it makes me want to jump up and down. You have to read the whole thing, but here’s a taste: I knew there was some sharp cruel distance between myself and the world around me. Then I found that the Catholic Church was where I turned…
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Dec. 15, 2009. A lot like others I’ve posted, but I never get tired of looking at things like this, or taking pictures of them.If you look closely you can see a bird, a small heron I think, on a post in the water—you might need to click through to the full-size image. http://js-kit.com/for/lightondarkwater.com/comments.js
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Sunday Night Journal — January 17, 2010 I’ve been meaning to write about this for a couple of months or so and have had trouble making the time for it, so I’m going to allocate this week’s journal to it. Anyone with an interest in American folk music is probably aware of Folkways Records, a…
Light On Dark Water 