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August 2015

August 16, 2015
    “Solitude well practiced will break the power of busyness, haste, isolation, and loneliness....
August 16, 2015
    We saw King Lear at UCLA's Royce Hall in 2007, with Sir Ian McKellen in...
August 16, 2015
    Pope Francis is very popular, and he typically receives rave reviews from the...
August 15, 2015
    A nice article about efforts in central Florida:     Posted from...
August 15, 2015
    Just back from dinner with the mother of a long-time friend.  It was...
August 15, 2015
    Women of the world unite!  You have nothing to lose but your chains!...
August 15, 2015
    One writer for Newsweek appears to think so:     Posted from...
August 15, 2015
    My wife and I love Turkey, and Cappadocia, which is in central Turkey...
August 15, 2015
    Luke 18:9-14 Compare Matthew 23:12; 18:4; Luke 14:11   There is a fine...
August 15, 2015
    An interesting article from the Economist about the possibility, previously mentioned here, that...
August 15, 2015
      I try to make sure that my wife sees Shakespeare's The Taming...
August 15, 2015
    I can't say that I'm really thrilled by the overuse of like and...
August 15, 2015
    No, Interpreter didn't miss a week of publication.  And we haven't in well...
August 15, 2015
    For a wise and glorious purpose Thou hast placed me here on earth...
August 14, 2015
    Our afternoon play was the 1949 Rodgers and Hammerstein musical South Pacific.  ...
August 14, 2015
    The scientist does not study nature because it is useful; he studies it...
August 14, 2015
    A helpful article from the Economist:     Posted from Cedar City,...
August 14, 2015
    Helen Condon called my attention to the item above, from a Facebook site...
August 14, 2015
    I've seen this claim a lot over the years, and quite a bit,...
August 14, 2015
      It would have been difficult to make this up.   And I...
August 14, 2015
    Since the Church published the photograph of that seer stone a couple of...
August 14, 2015
    One of the great advantages of regular attendance at the Utah Shakespeare Festival...
August 14, 2015
    Luke 18:1-8   Perhaps the main point of this little parable -- which...
August 13, 2015
    Emperor Joseph II:  Your work is ingenious. It's quality work. And there are...
August 13, 2015
    Just back from a superb Utah Shakespeare Festival production of Sir Peter Shaffer's...
August 13, 2015
    But who is he to judge?   Who is anybody?   Different strokes...
August 13, 2015
    Thanks to Nicolas Garaycochea for bringing this blog entry to my notice:  ...
August 13, 2015
    Bravo for George Will!     Posted from Cedar City, Utah  ...
August 13, 2015
      Thanks to Allen Wyatt for sharing this with me.   There...
August 13, 2015
    This week's fanatical and anti-scientific assault upon reason has appeared in the Deseret...
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