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Students at St. John’s College in Annapolis are known as “Johnnies.” St John’s is a small liberal arts school where the curriculum is the great books of (mostly) Western civilization—a non-Catholic Thomas Aquinas College, you might say. One of my children went there. It’s literally next door to the Naval Academy, and every year the…
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These are just a few off-the-cuff (what does that mean, anyway?) thoughts which I’m not going to make any great attempt to organize. They’re provoked by two things: one, this remark by Louise in a comment on the previous post: What women seem to want (from my POV, though I am reluctant to extrapolate to…
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I finished this earlier in the week, and considered writing a somewhat extensive review. But I have a backlog of things I’ve been trying to write about, and some unfinished correspondence, so I think I’ll just confine myself to this short notice. Those who are very interested in O’Connor are probably going to read the…
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Someone took one of the greatest pop songs ever written and did something wonderful with it, and the technical term for the result is awesome. It’s a little over five minutes long. http://vimeo.com/moogaloop.swf?clip_id=2897417&server=vimeo.com&show_title=1&show_byline=1&show_portrait=0&color=&fullscreen=1Stand By Me from David Johnson on Vimeo. Hat tip to my uncle Al for pointing this out to me. (Red)Wire (logo seen…
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Never heard of Andy Friedman, but titles like “Self-Portrait in White-Knuckle Death Grip” and “Guys Like Me Don’t Get Grants” sound pretty promising. Pre-TypePad http://js-kit.com/for/lightondarkwater.com/comments.js
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I had to walk across campus just now, and it’s such an unbelievably beautiful day that I had to tell you about it. I don’t have my camera with me so I cut this patch out of another picture. Imagine the entire sky looking like this: Add green things, flowers, handsome architecture, a pleasantly cool…
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You could go here and read the Pope’s entire Easter message, but I was so struck by these passages that I want to repeat them here: Indeed, one of the questions that most preoccupies men and women is this: what is there after death? To this mystery today’s solemnity allows us to respond that death…
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This is another camellia. I had a picture of one back in February; at the time the plant was in a pot and the flower was a fallen one, but my wife has since planted the little bush and it bloomed again. Strictly speaking, this is not an Easter flower, as the picture is a…
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My parish church, St. Lawrence in Fairhope, Alabama, is a fairly typical middle-class American one. (There’s a link to the parish web site at the end of this post, where you can see some pictures.) As a building it is not the sort of church I like most, but it’s not bad for a contemporary…
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So I poured myself a drink and went down to the bay a little while ago to watch the sun set, something I haven’t done for several months—when the days are short it’s harder to find the time. I was immediately sorry that I hadn’t taken my camera, as there was a heron sitting on…
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