March 2011
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My wife has a couple of bird feeders in the back yard. Two of them hang from poles, and she had a problem with raccons pulling them down (see this post). She ended up attaching one of them at an angle to the railing of a deck, so that it was out of the coons' reach.…
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So where is it? Here. I was thinking on the way home yesterday that I needed to take some pictures of the beautiful spring green of the cypress trees in my yard and round about. Then I remembered that I had posted one last spring–almost exactly a year ago, in fact. Then I thought I would…
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I gripe a lot about people using the word "irony" when they really only mean "coincidence." Sportswriters are especially bad about this, as in "ironically, the two teams have the same colors." And sometimes people use it when they're referring only to chance or luck, usually bad luck, as in "ironically, it began to rain…
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Writing about Fr. Samir's book on Islam sent me back to Belloc's The Great Heresies for another look at his view of Islam, in the chapter called "The Great and Enduring Heresy of Mohammed." I have to say right off that I don't think "heresy" is a good description for Islam, which seems to me a…
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When someone’s Facebook status is “Icy wind of night be gone, this is not your domain” and in your mind you hear it sung, not spoken, you’ve really probably spent too much of your life listening to pop music. (Explanation.)
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Sunday Night Journal — March 27, 2011 If you want a single book that will serve as both an introduction to Islam and a careful consideration of its relationship, past and present, to Christianity, I doubt you could do better than this one. The author is an Arab Christian with many years of direct experience…
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These are not especially good photographs. The first two were taken with my phone, and are small and not of high quality, the other with a camera which is new to me and, since I haven’t bothered to read the documentation yet, produces somewhat unpredictable results. But they can serve as suggestions. From my office…
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I'm supposed to be offline today, because it's a Friday in Lent. But it's also a feast day, so I'm allowing myself brief visits. I always think of Fra Angelico's Annunciation on this day. I am far from a connoiseur of the visual arts, and often feel a little guilty that I don't respond very fervently to…
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This sheds some light on the way the media covered it. But seriously: these workers are heroes.
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One of my many regrets—and there comes a time in life when regret is almost inseparable from memory itself… —Anthony Daniels
Light On Dark Water 