December 2011
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Monday night my wife and I were watching one of the new Inspector Lewis mysteries (The Gift of Promise). There was a scene of a woman fixing breakfast, spreading something on a slice of toast. It was already past when I exclaimed "That's it!", hit rewind (or whatever it should be called now), and watched…
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Today of course is the feast day of Our Lady of Gaudalupe. I was too busy to post this earlier but as there are still two hours left in the day in my time zone, I'll do it now.
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Sunday Night Journal — December 11, 2011 It was about twenty years ago that I worked briefly with Idell. I was still pretty new in my job, and was not at all happy in it. In fact I was considering whether my decision to take the job would rank among the top five worst mistakes…
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From a 2004 tour:
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Here's an interesting piece by Simcha Fisher, Dangerous Books for Teenage Girls. She's talking about books that are not bad in themselves, but may feed unhealthy tendencies in the mind of a teenage girl. Interestingly, she names Walker Percy's novels as an example from her own youth. I can see the point: Dr. Thomas More's lusts,…
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I think most people my age and older, and perhaps down to ten years or so younger, immediately associate the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor with this date. Those who actually remember the day, and the ensuing war, are growing fewer and fewer. Those of us born within the following ten years or so grew…
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It's definitely happening, has been happening for some time, and most reasonable people think it's a bad thing. But it's not the simple phenomenon that the Occupy protesters and others make it out to be. Bill Gates didn't become a billionaire by grinding the faces of the poor, or by grabbing up most of some…
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Sunday Night Journal — December 4, 2011 Perhaps you’ve noticed that for some time now I haven’t said much on the subject of movies. Part of the explanation for that is that watching movies is something my wife and I tend to do together, and she’s now in graduate school and has far less free…
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Weekend Music I think this is appropriate for Advent. There are some nice images in the video (along with the lyrics–in Italian).
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You must see and hear this: a sort of online Advent calendar (I know, it doesn't actually start on the first day of Advent) with music. I think the link will take you to day 2 now–be sure to go back and see/hear day 1. (Thanks, ex pat!)
Light On Dark Water 