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Now, I fully understand that falling snow is a totally unremarkable sight for many or most of the people who will read this. It’s only significant because it happens here so rarely. We might get a bit of snow like yesterday’s every five years or so. In the twenty-one years I’ve been living in this…
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Weather forecasts say we may get a few inches of snow early Friday morning. And maybe it will actually happen, although these predictions usually come to little or nothing. The last time we had enough snow to cover the ground was around 1995, and of course it melted within a few hours. As of this…
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In celebration of the Saints winning the Super Bowl: A nice reflection from a New Orleans priest Something I wrote a few years ago And a few pictures, the first one taken a couple of weeks ago in a sort of courtyard in the little hotel where we were staying, the others around town several…
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Sunday Night Journal — February 7, 2010 In the first post of this series I argued that conservatism is not a religion, and therefore not, at least conceptually, a rival to the faith, and that a Catholic who describes himself as conservative does not thereby make himself less of a Catholic. In the second I…
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Commenting may be flaky. I'm not sure what to expect. http://js-kit.com/for/lightondarkwater.com/comments.js
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For a while there I was attempting to post a bit of music every weekend, or at least most weekends. I’d like to resume that, although I’m sure I won’t be consistent. But anyway, here’s one. I think it was back in the ‘80s sometime when my friend Robert sent me a tape that included…
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Sometimes at night, when there has been or is about to be rain, but it’s not raining at the moment, the clouds make a very dark, very low ceiling over the water. You can see it—I mean, you don’t just see darkness and the absence of stars, you see an actual surface, because there is…
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A few days ago I logged in to my account at HaloScan, the company that provides the comment service I use here, and was greeted with the announcement that it is shutting down the HaloScan service and replacing it with a new one. February 10 (next Wednesday) is the day HaloScan dies, so I have…
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Spiritual living is accepting reality at any cost. —Simone Weil Quoted in this review of a book that I should probably read. Weil’s remark is one of those that seems to keep opening further the more I think about it. http://js-kit.com/for/lightondarkwater.com/comments.js
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Maybe you’ve read about the NFL threatening to sue some people in New Orleans who sell football-related stuff (t-shirts, hats, etc.) bearing the words “Who dat?” (Europeans—and Filipinos, and Australians, et.al.—: “Who dat?” = “Who is that?” in some Louisiana and/or African-American dialects.) Great outrage ensued, because the term belongs to Saints fans, not to…
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