Hail, O Lady, unique gateway through whom the Lord alone has passed! Hail, O you who, through your maternity, have shattered the locks of Hades! Hail, divine access towards salvation for the saved, O you so perfectly worthy of our praise! From the Akathist hymn to Our Lady written by Saint Romanus in Constantinople around [...]
Across the Airless Wilds by Earl Swift, 2021, Harper Collins, New York was one of my Christmas presents. The subtitle, The Lunar Rover and the Triumph of the Final Moon Landings, makes clear what the book is about. The author writes, in a discussion of the Apollo 14 mission, "the moon played tricks on them. [...]
Some time ago I was wandering through the website Ravelry. It’s a place where knitters and others can show off their work or make patterns available to others, either for free or for money. The patterns are incredibly varied and Ravelry is a nice place to go if you like to knit. On this occasion [...]
The Shy Museum Goer dropped a lovely blog post about snow over the weekend. https://theshymuseumgoer.com/2025/01/05/the-fine-art-of-depicting-snow/ She says that snow was first found in Western European art in the 1500's. Go check out Pieter Bruegel's painting of the Epiphany in the snow. Diane Tucker is always fun. The Jericho Society has images from the Vermont enthusiast, [...]
I loved reading The Boys in the Boat over the summer. Impossible doings, like helping build a dam by dangling over and down a cliff face, and using a hammer while you hanging there, without sending yourself into an out-and-back ride ending with a smash, are legendary, and a legend is something that you share, [...]
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