I went to a funeral Mass yesterday, I went to the cemetery in my black dress, where we waited thirty or forty minutes for the family to arrive. Horrible traffic from the church to the burial grounds. Scorching sun. Sweat running down my back. A husband and wife with adorable girls showed up dragging a [...]
Anyway, when I have too many things to think about my brain tends to shut down. I'm going to a funeral tomorrow in the Extraordinary Form, so I've been hunting for a copy of the Mass in Latin and English. I discovered that my mother's old missal (1947) is missing pages in the middle of [...]
In 1926, on July 5th, President Calvin Coolidge gave a speech discussing the roots of the Declaration of Independence in the preaching and teaching within the American colonise, as well as the philosophical underpinnings. He talked about what American exceptionalism meant. You can find the whole discourse here. https://www.presidency.ucsb.edu/documents/address-the-celebration-the-150th-anniversary-the-declaration-independence-philadelphia To me the money paragraph is [...]
The first problem to solve when writing about inkle looms is that auto correct always wants to change it to ankle. However, when actually using the loom that's not a problem. Inkle looms are used to make bands such as guitar straps or lanyards. Most looms can't go wider than three or four inches. I [...]
I wrote on Tuesday about this beautiful old church in Maryland. It had an upgrade to the windows in 2023. I don't know how much of the rest has changed -- I met someone who suggested that the tabernacle might be pretty old -- but I'm sure that the light from newly repurposed stained glass [...]
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