April 2010
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This is really bad. Fairly stiff south wind. Possibility of rain tonight and tomorrow–I don’t know what the effect of that would be. Reportedly oil is already contacting that marshy peninsula where Louisiana doesn’t so much have a coast as blend slowly into the sea. It won’t get to the Alabama coast for another day…
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Flannery O’Connor, from Inside Catholic’s Flannery Friday: I guess what you say about suffering being a shared experience with Christ is true, but then it should also be true of every experience that is not sinful. I meant that say, joy, may be a redemptive experience itself and not just the fruit of one. Perhaps…
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I guess most people are aware of the oil slick heading for the northern coast of the Gulf of Mexico, which includes the coasts of Florida, Alabama, Mississippi, and Louisiana. This may be a really huge disaster. Your prayers are solicited. The wind is now coming out of the south and expected to stay there…
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Harvey Mansfield, in “A New Kind of Liberalism: Tocqueville’s Recollections” in the March 2010 New Criterion, has this to say about Tocqueville’s view of the failures of political judgment on the part of “literary men:” The literary spirit in politics consists in seeing what is ingenious and new more than what is true, in preferring…
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I love this photo. (Click on the “View Larger” button to really appreciate it.) Why can’t I take pictures like this? I guess I need a better camera.
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I want to recommend this excellent German movie about a priest imprisoned in Dachau who is given a nine-day furlough so that the Nazis can pressure him into helping them get his bishop to cooperate with the Reich. It's extremely well done (in German, with subtitles): more information here. I should warn you that it…
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Old men ought to be explorers Here and there does not matter We must be still and still moving Into another intensity For a further union, a deeper communion Through the dark cold and the empty desolation, The wave cry, the wind cry, the vast waters of the petrel and the porpoise. In my end…
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Yesterday evening, during the rain, which we really needed, not having had any for several weeks. The wind chime looks so bright because the porch light was on. The camera never catches rain like I want it to, but you can see some faint vertical streaks. And it's still raining.It's actually rather dark right now,…
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Francesca mentioned this a couple of days ago. I was at work and couldn't read it at the time. The next day I remembered that I had seen a mention of a good piece by Hart, but I couldn't remember where. Happily, I came across it again today. Anyway: no one need bother pointing out…
Light On Dark Water 