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 [...]
Notre Dame and a Marian procession
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 [...]
Spatchcock?
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 [...]
In Honor of Thanksgiving
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 [...]
… this luminous life …
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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