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Weekend Music You may have noticed that this sometimes-regular feature disappeared some weeks ago, I'm not sure exactly when. I hardly listened to any music at all, or opened a book, between Thanksgiving and Epiphany. After the latter, though, really feeling the lack of music, I began playing music in the car on my daily…
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My great-aunt Ann was a diehard Democrat who believed that in the realm of politics FDR was the Creator and JFK the Messiah. I don't think she lived to see the JFK myth put pretty thoroughly to rest (as much as it can ever be–the true believers seem to be pretty committed still). But she…
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I suspect that anyone who is at all on the rightward side of the political spectrum is feeling very much like this. (Who is "Reince Preibus"?!?)
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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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