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It just wasn’t that big a deal in itself. The real story is the power of the myth. And as for a connection between Woodstock and Obama being elected: well, there really isn’t one. The civil rights movement and late ‘60s pop festivals had nothing much to do with each other, except perhaps that both…
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Exasperated 180-pound man to defiant 12-pound dog straining at leash, with all four legs locked in resistance: “Look, you are not the alpha male here. I am.” http://js-kit.com/for/lightondarkwater.com/comments.js
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Bella U.S. Catholics, at least, will recall a lot of fuss about this film when it came out in 2007. It was adopted and pushed by pro-life groups who may have done it some harm: they pushed it so hard, buying up whole showings of it etc., that they gave people the impression that it…
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I got in the car yesterday and turned on the radio, which was tuned to the local public radio station, and heard someone talking about Mike Seeger. Gradually it dawned on me that the speaker was using the past tense, and that I was listening to an obituary. When I got home I looked around…
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I’ve been fiddling with this post for ten days or so now. One reason for the delay is that the topic is really too big for a blog post. Re-reading the encyclical, marking passages, and making notes, I realized that I needed to scale back my intended commentary quite a bit. The thing is just…
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Will has been recommending this to me for a while, and I finally watched the first two episodes (streamed from Netflix). I don’t know when I’ve laughed so hard. I had to pause it several times until I finished laughing, so I wouldn’t miss anything. My only reservation is that the crazy and egotistical boss,…
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Dear one, it is loving that matters. (from a biography found at www.elizabethgoudge.org). Pre-TypePad http://js-kit.com/for/lightondarkwater.com/comments.js
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I discovered yesterday that writing a fairly short piece about Caritas in Veritate was more difficult than I thought, and though I spent a while on it I haven’t finished it. In the meantime, I want to get this off my chest. The 40th anniversary of Woodstock arrives in a couple of weeks, and I’m…
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If you remaster, repackage, and/or reissue your music one more time, I’m going to start calling you over-rated. Pre-TypePad http://js-kit.com/for/lightondarkwater.com/comments.js
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This was nice to read: …he was not old. Only sixtyish. —Elizabeth Goudge, Pilgrim’s Inn I was persuaded to read this book by Janet Cupo, who went so far as to supply me with a copy. I knew nothing about the author beyond a vague idea that I’d heard the name. But I’m already willing…
Light On Dark Water 