Header image Wandrille de Préville, CC BY-SA 4.0 https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0, via Wikimedia Commons I read an article on the internet about the Parisian fire-fighters and their efforts, back in 2019, to save Notre Dame cathedral. https://strangesounds.org/2019/07/notre-dame-fire-collapse-save-paris.html (I found it through this blog https://almatcboykin.wordpress.com/ which I have linked to in the past.) I had not paid full [...]
I had a different post for today but the pictures for it are stuck in limbo. Have a picture of Saint Nicholas from the National Gallery of Art, instead. This is the Virgin Mary visiting Saint Elizabeth. Saint Nicholas is on the left of the picture, identified by the golden balls spread around him. Saint [...]
A Virgin of Paris statue replica is carried during a Marian candlelit procession through the streets of Paris Nov. 15, 2024, as the original, for security reasons, was transported on a truck back to Notre Dame Cathedral. The statue was kept at the Saint-Germain-l'Auxerrois Church near the Louvre for five years since Notre Dame was [...]
Happy Thanksgiving, yesterday!? We had a spatchcocked turkey. I don't know why it isn't just a butterflied turkey. It was spatchcocked by a team effort with appropriate noises, concluding with the instruction to press down on the splayed out turkey, as though you were doing CPR. The appropriate noise for that seems to be a [...]
Words from Silent Cal on the Declaration of Independence. If all men are created equal, that is final. If they are endowed with inalienable rights, that is final. If governments derive their just power from the consent of the governed, that is final. No advance, no progress can be made beyond these propositions. If anyone [...]
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