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No, I’m not going to make this a regular feature. I just happened to think about this song and found it on YouTube. There’s no actual video, so don’t bother watching, just listen. If you like this, don’t go looking for the album expecting to hear more of the same, as the rest of it…
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I’m feeling guilty about having kept this book, Sigrid Undset on Saints and Sinners, checked out of the library for quite a number of months now. Before I return it I wanted to post the following snippet, apropos the discussion we were having a few days ago (I forget which thread) on the mistake of…
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On the financial crisis: I don’t understand this stuff in the least, but the picture that has emerged strikes me as a sort of witches’ brew of deregulation and government fiddling in the market. Government seems to have encouraged foolish risk-taking while failing to restrain the predators who predictably took advantage of the situation. This…
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Madonna’s Living Death No limited object, however beautiful, is able to appease the inner hunger that consumes you, because as soon as you possess it you have exhausted it. —Fr. Henri-Dominique Lacordaire I’ve found Madonna an irritating presence on the public scene ever since she appeared there. At the time, the early or mid-‘80s, I…
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From C.S. Lewis’s autobiography: …Kirk had said of me in a letter to my father…, “You may make a writer or a scholar of him, but you’ll not make anything else. You may make your mind up to that.” Though in my case “scholar” wouldn’t really have worked, either. And “may” should have been emphasized.…
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But love is not a victory marchIt’s a cold and it’s a broken hallelujah —Leonard Cohen Pre-TypePad http://js-kit.com/for/lightondarkwater.com/comments.js
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Because I’m on the eastern shore, I can only see the full moon over the water by getting up at 3 or 4am. Or staying up that late, of course. This is about as close as I get—probably thirty or forty minutes after sunrise. If you don’t really know what you’re doing and you don’t…
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This is a guest post by Janet Cupo. If you find the meaning unclear, it will help to read Flannery O’Connor’s short story, “A Good Man Is Hard to Find.” My drive to work is almost always beautiful, but this morning it was particularly so because of my awareness of the moon hovering in front…
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We have these green frogs all over the place where I live. This little fellow somehow found his way into the house a few days ago and was hopping weakly across the tile floor in the kitchen, which must have seemed like an endless expanse of stony desert to him (or her). I picked him…
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From the album Strange Weirdos, “Doin&rsquo the Math,” a suggestion about counting the years: Doin’ the math don’t bring satisfactionNo more addition nowIt’s all subtraction Pre-TypePad http://js-kit.com/for/lightondarkwater.com/comments.js
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