Archive for September 2009
More on post-dredge living
Posted by: kathrynjudson on: September 28, 2009
It occurs to me that my previous post might leave you with a not quite accurate picture of this part of town, because, as it happens, dredge piles don’t stay dredge piles, at least they don’t around here.
I’m not sure how long ago this part of the valley was churned up in a quest for [...]
Sometimes a river…
Posted by: kathrynjudson on: September 28, 2009
… can disappear from sight for a while.
No, really.
More on Popo Agie here.
In the town where I live, there was (I am told) a not-entirely-successful effort years ago to divert one of the small rivers that runs through it.
At any rate, water (supposedly from the poorly diverted river) runs through huge deposits of gravel left behind by gold dredges, [...]
The Saturday Review of Books…
Posted by: kathrynjudson on: September 26, 2009
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…is up and growing at Semicolon.
Of plays and principles, heroes and governments
Posted by: kathrynjudson on: September 26, 2009
The following is reprinted with the permission of the Alabama Policy Institute, which published it September 22, 2009.
Virtue and Courage – What America Could Use Now
by Gary Palmer
Ordinarily, when a 21 year-old man thinks about what he will do with the rest of his life, he thinks in terms of years. But the tall, handsome, [...]
Second Pulpit Freedom Sunday this Sunday
Posted by: kathrynjudson on: September 24, 2009
More than 80 pastors nationwide have signed on for this year’s Pulpit Freedom Sunday. The Alliance Defense Fund is standing by to provide legal help to any pastor targeted for exercising his First Amendment rights.
To be clear: The Alliance Defense Fund’s Pulpit Initiative: What It Is – What It’s Not. (pdf)
Links, links: life lessons
Posted by: kathrynjudson on: September 19, 2009
Jennifer Fulwiler of Conversion Diary writes Of cat ownership and “little sins”.
Shannon Woodward of Wind Scraps writes of mice and young men - and predators.
Plain Catholic in the Mountains shares The Seventeen Evidences of a Lack of Humility by St. John Vianney, and also a prayer by a 17th century nun, for growing old gracefully.
The Saturday Review of Books…
Posted by: kathrynjudson on: September 19, 2009
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…is up and growing at Semicolon.
Greeting cards and unintended messages
Posted by: kathrynjudson on: September 19, 2009
If you are a Christian, do your birthday cards and other greeting cards reflect that, or do they betray a worldly outlook?
I’m not talking about obviously religious cards, with Christian-themed art and Bible verses. I mean the other kind, bought off the shelf. Do they reflect a Biblical viewpoint, or are they at war with [...]
Foul ball, fair maiden, knightly Dad
Posted by: kathrynjudson on: September 17, 2009
Hooray for this man, and the loving way he handles an unexpected turn of events.
History mystery: Who wrote this epitaph for himself?
Posted by: kathrynjudson on: September 17, 2009
A famous American wrote this epitaph for himself when he was 23 years old. He lived to a ripe old age, and his actual gravestone inscription is much shorter and simpler than this:
THE BODY
OF
[NAME]
PRINTER
(LIKE THE COVER OF AN OLD BOOK,
ITS CONTENTS TORN OUT,
AND STRIPT OF ITS LETTERING AND GILDING),
LIES HERE, FOOD FOR WORMS,
BUT THE WORK SHALL [...]
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