Standing on the Moon Credit: NASA, Kennedy Space Center, Neil Armstrong took the picture of Buzz Aldrin in July 1969. https://apod.nasa.gov/apod/ap950922.html Apollo 14: A View from Antares (Antares is the Lunar Module from the Apollo 14 mission. The equipment is a wheeled device that carried equipment for the team. They did not yet have a lunar rover.) Image [...]
Eye candy for today. I'm finishing a story and don't have the bandwidth to think about other things. This was part of the old Saint Charles Seminary in Philadelphia. Gone now. sigh... My favorite view as a palate cleanser... I was scrolling through pictures and found this one and the one after it. The old [...]
July 14 is also Bastille Day. I was shocked to discover, when I visited, that the key to the Bastille is at Mount Vernon, having been presented to President George Washington by the Marquis de Lafayette. July 14 is the birthday of the artist who did the cover of this book. https://a.co/d/0hJIYXrY The ceiling above [...]
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 [...]
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