Weekend 321.0
“I just want it to look like nothing else in the world. And it should be surrounded by a train.” ― Walt Disney (1) A Feast for the Guilt-Ridden Guest: Continue Reading →
Category Archives: Quotes
Weekend 318.1
Year by year you sanctify the Church, the Bride of Christ, foreshadowed in visible buildings, so that, rejoicing as the mother of countless children, she may be given her place Continue Reading →
Weekend 312.0 (Le mal du pays)
A couple of days off from work (a much needed extra long Labor Day Weekend) so I’m doing some housekeeping, biking, and drinking gratuitous amounts of coffee. I also finished Continue Reading →
Joyful Cosmology
(1) Woody Allen’s Bleak Vision by Rev. Robert Barron “If you consult the philosophers of antiquity and the Middle Ages, you would find a very frank acknowledgement that what Woody Continue Reading →
Weekend 309.0
(1) Sturmey Archer “The Planetary Gearset” (YouTube) (2) Speed Traps For Japan’s Escalators (WSJ – Registration Required) (3) Shakespeare as a Life Coach (WSJ) “The world is grown so bad Continue Reading →
Weekend 307.0
(1) Designer Jasper Morrison on Beautiful Basics and Tintin (WSJ) “By worrying when the next idea might come, you restrict yourself—with the perspective of time, he’d learned to treat design Continue Reading →
Weekend 305.1
“St. Francis de Sales one day was looking at a rose, and he put his hands to his ears and he said to the rose, ‘Stop shouting.’ There is a Continue Reading →
Weekend 301.0 (Memorial Day Weekend)
My sister always lends me great books and she found a real gem with In Unfamiliar England by Thos D. Murphy. Only forty pages invested, and there’s already been references Continue Reading →
Weekend 300.0 (Rare 3 Day Weekend)
…and great timing because my Space Mountain Graphic Novel just arrived! Weekend 279.0 (Post Con/Abridged) (1) A quote from Hayao Miyazaki in The Art of the Wind Rises: “I don’t Continue Reading →
Christmas Day 2013
“What’s lost is nothing to what’s found, and all the death that ever was, set next to life, would scarcely fill a cup.” — Frederick Buechner