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I’m about to leave town for a couple of days, and will probably not be online much, if at all. I was working on something about Ascension Day which I had wanted to post before I left, but it kept growing, and I’m out of time. So, just because it bothers me to go that…
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Don’t go ridin’ on that long black train. I heard this song done by a country band a few weeks ago and immediately went looking for it online. Although the performance above seems to be pretty recent, I feel sure it’s an older gospel song. The video is pretty good, too. Pre-TypePad http://js-kit.com/for/lightondarkwater.com/comments.js
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In the June Atlantic. Though he admires O’Connor’s skill, the reviewer strikes me as pretty obtuse; he seems to be one of those who just doesn’t get the essence of what she was doing. And now that I think about it, do many people who don’t already understand—i.e., Catholics and other Christians—really ever get O’Connor’s…
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Make “teenagers” singular instead of plural, and the title would serve for a memoir of my adolescence. And actually this is a bit of one. There was (still is) a railroad track about a hundred yards behind the house where I grew up, and there were still passenger trains. Though there was no proper station…
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One of my daughters had a bright idea for a Mother’s Day present: take Mom to the St. Mary’s Knights of Columbus Crawfish and Bluegrass Extravaganza. Dad was invited, too, fortunately, and had a great time. In case you don’t know, the crawfish (as you can see from the pictures turned up by Google’s image…
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A few days ago I was involved in an email disagreement, not entirely pleasant, about the meaning of the word “conservative.” One point of contention was my assertion that the word is useful even though its meaning is imprecise. The other party insisted that it must have a very definite, almost scientific or scholastic, meaning,…
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Rod Dreher has an interesting post about the death of his grandmother, and a remarkable thing that happened shortly before she died. Excerpt (“Helen” is his grandmother): My father phoned this afternoon after he and my mother returned from the hospital. He said something extraordinary had happened. Helen was wracked with pain, pain so intense…
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This is where my wife found the cartoons from which she extracted the chicken signature: Flannery O’Connor, Cartoonist. The one with the signature is actually down in the comments. Pre-TypePad http://js-kit.com/for/lightondarkwater.com/comments.js
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After complaining loudly that it was raining where I work but probably not where I live, twenty or so miles (about 30km) southeast, I came home tonight to see this: over three and a half inches (about 9cm) of rain in the rain gauge. Beautiful. Janet, you can keep the rest of the rain now.…
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My wife is now reading the Flannery O’Connor biography discussed here a week or two ago. Being a visual sort of person, she wanted very much to see the the signature used by (Mary) Flannery O’Connor on the cartoons she published in her college newspaper, a chicken formed of the initials MFOC, which the book…
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