April 2011
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…and see if it doesn't make you feel like crying out in gratitude that you live in such a beautiful world. I recommend making it full-screen (click on the four outward-pointing arrows). There is background music but you might prefer to watch in silence. http://vimeo.com/moogaloop.swf?clip_id=22439234&server=vimeo.com&show_title=1&show_byline=1&show_portrait=1&color=00adef&fullscreen=1&autoplay=0&loop=0 The Mountain from Terje Sorgjerd on Vimeo.
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Sunday Night Journal — April 17, 2011 I spend a lot of time in the car every day, well over an hour, with a 40-45 minute commute each way. When I give up music for Lent, I usually try to maintain complete silence during those drives, but after a couple of weeks I begin to…
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From Janet: David Bentley Hart's comment on the new Atlas Shrugged movie. I've seen several other reviews, and they were all pretty negative. Even the one by someone who's not hostile to Rand was at best lukewarm. From Rob G: Bill Kaufman on the return of black novelist Ernest K. Gaines to his Louisiana roots. I'd…
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Everybody's doing it! (heh)
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I'm breaking my no-non-work-related-Internet rule long enough to post this, before I have a chance to forget it: There is no child of God on this earth from whom you have nothing to learn. (from the homily at the noon Mass I just returned from)
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Sally Thomas making good use of GarageBand. (GarageBand is a sound recording/editing program.) (p.s. I will be offline until Saturday.)
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Saving the world does not mean making it happy; it means showing the world the meaning of its suffering and giving it a joy that ‘nothing can take away.’ … Christ does not provide his followers with a set of wings to flee into heaven, but with a weight to drag them into the deepest…
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I think this was taken Sunday before last. Or was it Saturday? The brightest areas are overexposed, but I'm getting closer. Which is all one ever does, really.
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A link I didn't click on, seen on the ABC News site earlier today: "Is Your Bladder Trying to Tell You Something?"
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According to the fellow who introduced it on Turner Classic Movies, this 1953 Alfred Hitchcock film was not well thought of by Hitchcock. I'm not a great Hitchcock fan–I enjoy his classics (not including Psycho, which was really too much for me) , but haven't understood why some consider him a great artist. So I'm probably…
Light On Dark Water 