August 2011
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Let me explain the new and rather half-baked look. It's been well over a year since I moved this blog to TypePad. I did it in a hurry, because Blogger was making it impossible to continue what I'd been doing. I picked a canned design which I didn't care much for but which at least…
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I meant to post something about this book several months ago when it was published, then it slipped my mind. I was reminded of it again tonight when I saw it mentioned on Facebook. I think I'll buy it, as soon as I finish a couple of the other books I've been trying to get…
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Sunday Night Journal — August 28, 2011 I've been out of town all weekend, and once again I lack both time and mental focus to write anything substantial. Instead, I've spent a couple of hours doing something I've wanted to do for a while, which is to figure out how to do some simple stuff…
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Weekend Music My buddy Robert sent me this a couple of weeks ago. It certainly sounds like it was released in 1968, which it was. Notice the sitar. A lovely and sad song. I don't recall ever hearing anything by David Blue back in those days, though the cover of this album looks familiar. It…
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Or should I say the dark? At any rate, he sees and accepts the hopelessness of the atheistic attempt to derive morality from the bare facts of physical existence. The thing that annoys me most about the loud spokesmen for shallow atheism–Christopher Hitchens, Richard Dawkins, et.al.–is their refusal even to admit that this problem exists.…
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Sunday Night Journal — August 21, 2011 I've been so busy and pressured in my job, not only last week but through the weekend, that I'm really not equipped to write anything of substance on a specific topic tonight. Instead, I'm going to mention a few things that I had filed away with the intention…
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Christianity does not proclaim merely some salvation of the soul in a vague afterlife in which all that is precious and dear to us in this world would be eliminated, but promises eternal life, “the life of the world to come.” Nothing that is precious and dear to us will fall into ruin; rather it…
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Some time back–almost five years ago, actually, which is a little disturbing–I tried to figure out why I don't have much interest in contemporary fiction. (The post is here.) One reason is that I didn't, and don't, care much for the static gloom that seems to pervade most of it, or at least most of what…
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15 Minutes of Exercise Every Day Reduces Risk of Death. I was about to say WebMD needs a better headline writer, but that's what the first sentence says, too: "A study published by The Lancet shows that if inactive people increased their physical activity by just 15 minutes per day, they could reduce their risk of death by 14%…
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Sunday Night Journal — August 14, 2011 Some months ago in a Sunday Night Journal I talked about the melancholy person’s view of this world as being substantially correct, in that we must ultimately lose everything: The melancholic doesn’t celebrate the seasons so much as accept them, knowing that each brings its pleasures but that…
Light On Dark Water 