A friend asked
me if I would be glad when the election is over. I thought about it, and said,
no, actually I won’t be. Because then we’ll have the next four years. Watching
the mainstream media hurl themselves like lemmings off a cliff is already
making me embarrassed that I have a journalism degree; if you haven’t realized
by now, we don’t have journalism in this country any more. And that’s both a sad and
dangerous thing.
You may not know
who Neville Marriner was, but he was influential in the world of music, created
a thing of beauty at St. Martin’s-in-the-Fields Church, and was something
considered unusual in the music conducting world – a gentleman. American Conservative has a good story
about him, and now I know whom to thank for those concerts at the church on
Trafalgar Square.
The Babylon Bee likes to puncture our
evangelical balloons, and Emily Belz at World
Magazine has the story behind the satirical site and its founder. A
wonderful story in the London Review of
Books about a J.M.W. Turner painting. Stunning photographs of palm fronds.
Why a quarter-life crisis and a mid-life crisis are good things. A confession
of faith. Good poetry.
Poetry
The Guardians – Brendan MacOdrum at Oran’s Well.
Floyd Casey – Megan Willome.
Letters on a Japanese Moth – Maureen Doallas at Writing Without
Paper.
A Sonnet for St. Luke’s Day – Malcolm Guite.
Poetry
gives words to the wordless – Donna Pucciani at National Catholic Reporter
(Hat Tip: J of India).
Life and Culture
Serious Laughter: Adam Ford and the
Babylon Bee – Emily Belz
at World.
The Necessity of a Quarter-Life and
Mid-Life Crisis – Jon
Mertz at Thin Difference.
Art and Photography
The Chase: Turner’s “Rain, Steam, and
Speed” – Inigo Thomas at
the London Review of Books.
Palm Fronds – Tim Good at Pics, Poems, and
Ponderings.
Faith
CREDO: This is My Confession of Faith – Diana Trautwein at She Loves Magazine.
When the hurricane hits – Troy Cady at T(r)oy Marbles.
British Stuff
Remembering Neville Marriner – R.J. Stove at American Conservative.
Behold Our God – Sovereign Grace
Painting: Woman Reading in a Garden, oil on canvas (1902-1903) by Henri Matisse; private collection.
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