I have been chasing something I read about twenty-five years ago. I can’t remember it exactly but whoever it was wrote something like …people approached the temple, peered in to see its glory, then turned away rather than boldly entering and living there… . Me, paraphrasing ... The next few lines were commentary on this, [...]
Thinking about writing by thinking about what I’ve read…
Sometimes I write Friday's post on Thursday morning because I'm often a bit tired on Friday morning, after playing with my grandchildren in 95 degree heat, but I had too many ideas this time and couldn't settle on just one. Meanwhile, I've been reading four different book series on Amazon Kindle and finished several new [...]
American Sign Language is French
Modern American Sign Language has French origins. Two priests, Abbe Charles Michel de l’Epee and the Abbe Sicard were the proximate cause. Abbe de l’Epee had founded a school for the deaf in Paris in the late 1700’s. Abbe Sicard ran it after he died. When Thomas Gallaudet, an American who was trying to found [...]
Interesting quotations…
For reasons, by which I mean, someone asked me to find something and in the process I found other things, I found a bunch of quotations that I had written on scraps of paper and then tried to lose. To have beautiful and holy thoughts, to write books on the lives of the saints, all [...]
Iowa attractions
I wrote earlier about the driftless area in Iowa and Wisconsin. Drift is an older word for the stuff that glaciers move around, and then leave behind as they melt. I’m more familiar with ‘moraines’ and the hills they create. Seattle is an example. Those hills are steep but unstratified (unlayered) junk. The hills around [...]
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