The Anchoress
My son Buster sent this and a few other clever Animaniac excerpts to me and notes, “no wonder my generation is so cynical.” Read more
My son Buster sent this and a few other clever Animaniac excerpts to me and notes, “no wonder my generation is so cynical.” Read more
Blogging is fun but it don’t pay the rent. While I’m off doing what I have to do to get paid (note – my paypal/amazon buttons have moved to the right side column!) here is a round-up of things you might find interesting, in no particular order! Enjoy! Say it again: Socialized Medicine does not work! Read this at Fausta’s and feel the chill wind. And the poor care. Christopher Hitchens, oozing disdain for the Clintons and their race-baiting. Pre-Dawn,... Read more
Blogging is fun but it don’t pay the rent. While I’m off doing what I have to do to get paid (note – my paypal/amazon buttons have moved to the right side column!) here is a round-up of things you might find interesting, in no particular order! Enjoy! Say it again: Socialized Medicine does not work! Read this at Fausta’s and feel the chill wind. And the poor care. Christopher Hitchens, oozing disdain for the Clintons and their race-baiting. Pre-Dawn,... Read more
I rather like this ad: Ed Morrissey is endorsing Mitt Romney but while I like him better than I did, I still don’t like him much, and I don’t get this this earpiece story. I still like Rudy. As I wrote earlier: I have no idea how he, or Romney, or Huckabee would turn around an economy, resolve a social problem or – God forbid – deal with a nation under attack and hurting. I know those things about Rudy,... Read more
Gregorian Chanted Duran Duran. Oddly captivating. But I won’t cry for yesterday there’s an ordinary world Somehow I have to find and as I try to make my way to the ordinary world I will learn to survive More, umm…traditional chant, here: Read more
Karen Hall at Some Have Hats has included me in a meme. As regular readers know, I don’t participate in these often, mostly because I hate to think of five other bloggers to amuse/annoy with it (you never know who will write back saying, “you shouldn’t have…really…you shouldn’t have!” But this meme is kind of quirky and cute, and since I happen to have a book – only one – at hand (I am at my “second” desk, which is... Read more
:::SCROLL DOWN FOR UPDATE:::SCROLL DOWN FOR UPDATE::: Exit polls in South Carolina indicate that Bill Clinton’s hijinks and race-baiting hurt Hillary more than helped her. So, what is next, for Clinton? I jokingly said to a friend last night that Clinton’s racial remarks are becoming so bold that I fear he will next show up in a white suit, carrying a mint julep and drawling something about “uppity” classes. But of course, that was not serious. And it might have... Read more
A great pleasure of my life was singing this as part of a very good ensemble. Very prayerful and hypnotic. Ave verum corpus natum de Maria Virgine Vere passum, immolatum in cruce pro homine Cuius latus perforatum unda fluxit sanguine Esto nobis praegustatum mortis in examine O Jesu dulcis, o Jesu pie, o Jesu fili Mariae Hail true body; that was born of the Virgin Mary, That truly suffered and was sacrificed on the Cross for all, From whose pierced... Read more
At least twice in the past this blog has written about William Bush’s To Quell the Terror: The Mystery of the Vocation of the Sixteen Carmelites of Compiegne Guillotined July 17, 1794 – it’s a splendid account of the 16 women who were beheaded near the end of the French Revolution. They went to their deaths singing psalms and offering their deaths up as prayers for an end of the terror – and in fact it ended ten days later.... Read more
Good morning. I know we are not in “Christmas” anymore, but as ever, I am still in wonder at the Incarnation. One of the nice things about being Catholic is that we ponder the Incarnation frequently – particularly when saying the Joyful Mysteries of the Rosary. The Incarnation – that moment when God “set his tent with us” – stops me in my tracks, all the time. One can never get to the end of it. This incredible piece of... Read more
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