Weekend 624.0

Posted on November 2, 2024 by Winston Smith — Leave a reply

We hope that it will be unlike anything else on this earth: a fair, amusement park, an exhibition, a city from the Arabian Nights, a metropolis of the future; in Continue Reading →

Weekend 623.0

Posted on October 26, 2024 by Winston Smith — Leave a reply

“…clad in a mantle of silver and blue, fair as the twilight in Elven-home; her dark hair strayed in a sudden wind, and hew brows were bound with gems like Continue Reading →

Weekend 622.0 (fragments that can shore up one’s ruins…)

Posted on October 19, 2024 by Winston Smith — Leave a reply

The powers of evil have, theologically, two characteristics. First, they are really evil: evil is not merely in the mind as some philosophers have suggested, but is a force which Continue Reading →

Weekend 621.1

Posted on October 13, 2024 by Winston Smith — Leave a reply

We need it so we don’t forget that there are things in this world not carved out of gray stone. That there’s a small place inside of us they can Continue Reading →

Weekend 621.0

Posted on October 12, 2024 by Winston Smith — Leave a reply

“I think I know exactly what you mean by the order of Grace; and of course, by your references to Our Lady, upon which all my own small perception of Continue Reading →

Weekend 620.1

Posted on September 29, 2024 by Winston Smith — Leave a reply

Your wealth has rotted away, your clothes have become moth-eaten, your gold and silver have corroded, and that corrosion will be a testimony against you; it will devour your flesh Continue Reading →

Weekend 620.0 (…in reality a true aeolian limestone)

Posted on September 26, 2024 by Winston Smith — Leave a reply

There once many men, glad-minded and gold-bright,adorned in gleaming, proud and wine-flushed, shone in war-tackle;There one could look upon treasure, upon silver, upon ornate jewelry,upon prosperity, upon possession, upon precious Continue Reading →

Silver, sea glass, and rum (or somewhere between Middle and South Road)

Posted on September 16, 2024 by Winston Smith — Leave a reply

Just back from Bermuda. Uploading photos on Flickr, but a full recap will have to wait until work travel concludes. For now… (1) On September 16, 1620, the Mayflower sails Continue Reading →

Weekend 619.0

Posted on August 31, 2024 by Winston Smith — Leave a reply

The Estes Screamin’ Mimi (SM) was refurbished and re-launched last weekend. It’s the oldest model rocket in the fleet at seventeen years old. It’s also the most launched. The fins Continue Reading →

Weekend 618.0

Posted on August 24, 2024 by Winston Smith — Leave a reply

Wednesday, August 21 was the 21st anniversary of LIMESTONE ROOF! (1) New York World’s Fair Souvenir Key, 1940 (Henry Ford Musuem) (2) These Life-Sized Playmobil Figures Are Works of Art Continue Reading →