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Going back yet again to the recent discussion of faith and doubt, here's a piece at the First Things blog, "Does Doubt Belong to Faith?", which is interesting not only for what it says but for the fact that it starts from exactly the same passages which rjp (Newman) and I (then-Cardinal Ratzinger) used in…
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Via rjp in the comments: The soul never grows old. —Sigrid Undset That's what the Berryman quote a couple of posts back points to, and as I noted there it's a datum that grows ever more real and significant to one with years. I've seen it as an observer, in my own parents and other…
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Undoubtedly something is about to happen. Or is it that something has stopped happening? Is it that God has at last removed his blessing from the U.S.A. and what we feel now is just the clank of the old historical machinery, the sudden jerking ahead of the roller-coaster cars as the chain catches hold and…
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This is #7 from John Berryman's 77 Dream Songs. Berryman was born in 1914, and is here remembering movies of roughly the late '20s. If these references were replaced with ones from the late '50s these lines would do very well as a description of a state of mind very familiar to me and, I…
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I saw and realized … that love is everything, that this same love embraces every time and every place. Pre-TypePad http://js-kit.com/for/lightondarkwater.com/comments.js
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Emmylou Harris: Wrecking Ball; Red Dirt Girl; Stumble Into Grace As everybody knows, Emmylou Harris came to prominence in the 1970s as a vocalist and band leader who primarily interpreted other people’s work in a country-rock style. Her work in that vein is extremely good, and I’ve always loved her voice, but as a style…
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The goddess of cosmic American song was most gracious to her devoted subjects. Note to women who are getting up in years: grey can be beautiful. Pre-TypePad http://js-kit.com/for/lightondarkwater.com/comments.js
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It takes a lot to get me to go to a non-classical concert these days. Prices have gotten so high that I can't convince myself that an hour or two of music is worth it, and my wife has very little interest in pop music, and I'm generally a creature of habit, and I'm always…
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My employer is implementing an elaborate emergency notification system which can send a canned message by phone and email to everybody associated with the place. It was tested today. Naturally I thought of this. Pre-TypePad http://js-kit.com/for/lightondarkwater.com/comments.js
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…with her book tour and all, but still, this headline is startling: Dawn to explore asteroid belt. By the way, Dawn will be on EWTN's "This Rock" program tomorrow (Thursday the 27th). Pre-TypePad http://js-kit.com/for/lightondarkwater.com/comments.js
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