April 2010
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I've been using a different computer for looking at pictures etc., a laptop which my daughter passed on to me when we bought her a new one. And I'm forced to recognize once again how very different colors can be from one machine to the next. When I looked at this picture last night, it…
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Stifle your inner pedant. I find that very difficult to do with "literally," though. Just a day or two ago I saw a particularly bad example in a news story: I don't remember it now but it was on the order of "he was literally on fire with ambition." Moreover, I thought this as a…
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…but this is just manipulative pandering, and I resent it. Sadly, this sort of thing is widespread in the classical music world now. What it implies to me is that the musicianship is likely to be less than the best. And I realize this use of "girl" is often resented, but this is not the…
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That was the title I chose when I wrote about The Doors’ first album a couple of weeks ago. In case you don’t recognize it, it’s a line from the last song, “The End,” one of its numerous suggestions of a rather ominous journey: The blue bus is calling us Driver, where you taking us?…
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…if Christ be not raised…we are of all men most miserable. (1 Corinthians 15:17-19) Our priest at the Easter Vigil tonight asked "Can we believe it is not just a story?" I think he meant not just "is it true?" but "do we have the courage to believe it? to take the risk?"
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People react to suffering in different ways. But in general it can be said that almost always the individual enters suffering with a typically human protest and with the question “why”. He asks the meaning of his suffering and seeks an answer to this question on the human level. Certainly he often puts this question…
Light On Dark Water 