January 2012
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and how weird that there's a need for it.
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Once again I've had a very busy and stressful week, followed by a not-stressful but nevertheless busy weekend, with little time for anything apart from work and family-related doings. I brought this on myself to some extent by having signed up, back in late November, for a 20-hour course in the Java programming language, which…
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I haven't been online much for the past couple of days, but I wanted to mention this, which Rob G sent me a several days ago. As Rob noted, the review doesn't say much about–the reviewer presumably doesn't get–the real spiritual significance of the movie, but I think he's very good on the aesthetics and psychology.
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Prayer is translation. A man translates himself into a child asking for all there is in a language he has barely mastered. —Leonard Cohen (seen on Facebook, posted by Image, I think)
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July 18, 2004: a review of The Innocence Mission’s Befriended. I removed some obsolete links and information about eMusic.com, which is still around and to which I still subscribe, though it’s changed a lot since 2004.
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You may have noticed the Google Doodle today, a rocky-looking thing which turns out to be a reference to Blessed Nicholas Steno, a Danish priest (actually named Steensen) who did some pioneering work in geology. I was not aware of him before today, so I appreciate Google having brought him to my attention. And I'm…
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…over at All Manner of Thing. Very much worth your while if you haven't already read it. I have to pass along this comment about The Voyage of the Dawn Treader: "I love the book, and had high hopes for the film, all of which were dashed into little pieces, swept into a little pile,…
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Alabama Number 1!! So many stories like this to choose from. D.J. Fluker: "This is better than Christmas."
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This will be brief, because I spent most of this afternoon and evening at the hospital where my daughter Ellen had just given birth to my newest grandchild, James Lucas Tynes. Mother and son are doing fine. Second Thoughts About Christopher Hitchens A few weeks ago I wrote a sort of obituary for Hitchens in which,…
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Nobody has to do anything they don’t want to anymore. —my wife, at the breakfast table this morning
Light On Dark Water 