The Thousandth Time

"If you look at a thing nine hundred and ninety-nine times, you are perfectly safe; if you look at it the thousandth time, you are in frightful danger of seeing it for the first time." -G.K. Chesterton

Sunday, April 4, 2021

Well-Traveled

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A song for the day. A friend of mine who is a singer had learned this last year, and I was smitten with it. The composer is an American; he ...
Friday, April 2, 2021

In Sorrow

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I think Easter week was barely over last year when I discovered the Lebanese hymn "Wa Habibi" (O My Beloved). There are quite a fe...
Monday, March 22, 2021

Unsettling

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 Yes, I didn't post anything for a long time, and then suddenly there was this unexplained file of poems marching by. That all had its b...
Monday, March 15, 2021

So There

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 One evening last week I owned up to the fact that I had been lapping up far too much of my rest and relaxation from a screen, so during din...
Monday, March 8, 2021

Catching at Wonder

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We hear that a picture is worth a thousand words, but if that is so, perhaps words are more potent used in smaller quantities. You couldn...
Friday, March 5, 2021

Over Seas

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This , I am quite convinced, is the sort of thing that journalism exists for. A man saw a ship hovering in the air off of Cornwall. And he t...
Monday, March 1, 2021

An Excellent Recommendation

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 Overall, I am not pleased with the stalkerish ways of search engines. For instance, I was very contentedly occupied in watching sean-nós da...
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