June 2012
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Last July 4 when the SyFy Channel was having its Twilight Zone marathon, I recorded a number of episodes, so many that I still haven't watched them all. And now it's almost July 4 again. I don't think I'll record any this year, though I do enjoy most of them. Last night we watched one called…
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Report on Anglican Developments I haven’t yet written about my experience with our local instance of the Anglican Ordinariate. I first mentioned it here on Easter Sunday (see this SNJ), shortly after it had come to my attention, and a great deal has happened since then. The first word I had, back in April, was…
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At Caelum et Terra and Neo-neocon. Daniel isn't going to like sharing that recommendation with a n**c**, but it's a very fine post: "the love that was always, always there."
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I've been even more busy and distracted than usual for the past few weeks, and should have mentioned this before. At All Manner of Thing, Craig Burrell has been having a Chesterton festival in honor of the anniversary of the great man's death. There's a lot of good stuff there, including substantial reviews of a couple of…
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Weekend Music According to the text with the video, this came out in 1961, so I was thirteen years old. I loved it and can remember specific times when I heard it. I was particularly taken with that now-classic guitar lick, which, or some variant, has been heard in a lot of songs. I've always…
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A local doctor runs a low-cost health clinic for people without insurance.
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"Alien earths may be plentiful" This one and the variant about life probably existing on a jillion other planets. They never have any real evidence, and although the details may vary (like the stuff about the metals here), it's always nearly pure conjecture and speculation. The fascination of the modern secular mind with this stuff is…
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…I suddenly thought how there comes a time in one's religious experience when nothing can be added to, or subtracted from, what one understands as "belief." There it is, I tell myself, my 'belief,' minuscule though it may be in some eyes, it is oceanic in mine. —Ronald Blythe, Out of the Valley I'm not…
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And indeed it's a thought that's occured to me more than once: "…the one major upside of Obama’s election: that it kept Meghan McCain from becoming America’s first daughter." I do disagree with the reviewer about the title. It's a good thing that the book doesn't live up to it.
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Reading at the Grand Babylon I had intended to include this in last week’s journal, but had already gone on too long. So, picking up from there: I took two books to the conference with me, and had made a pact with myself not to turn on the television. I have made and broken such…
Light On Dark Water 