Weekend 592.0
Young Wafflers and the “Culture of Commitment” (The Catholic Thing) “Heroes are born of commitment. Epics like Beowulf, the Odyssey, or The Lord of the Rings are built around the Continue Reading →
Category Archives: Weekend
2023 Christmas Sabbatical
Ah, when to the heart of manWas it ever less than a treasonTo go with the drift of things,To yield with a grace to reason,And bow and accept the endOf Continue Reading →
Weekend 590.0
There’s no monument at Repentance Junction to mark the heroes of that last campaign but history will memorialize their sacrifice.
Weekend 589.0 (Rommer Treece)
“At some point in his studies the student of military history begins to perceive great events as climaxes to a series of ironies.” — W.J. Wood What’s cooking? I’m smack Continue Reading →
Weekend 586.0 (1.6 x 10-35 m)
(1) The Westminster Cathedral Newsletter (Fr Michael Donaghy) “There is, in many of us, the inclination to put on a show. We can easily wear a mask to hide our Continue Reading →
Weekend 585.1 (The Song of the Bells)
(1) Excerpt from Southampton Sketches by Elise M. Sandell CRESCENDO — From steeple to steeple, gable to gable, from pinnacle to battlement and high over the Bargate they were flung Continue Reading →
Weekend 585.0 (Sunken Departure Lounge)
(1) Flight of fancy: The TWA Hotel (YouTube) (2) Solari boards: The disappearing sound of airports (BBC) (3) Limestone Roof Photo Archives: TWA Hotel (Updated) (4) TWA Hotel playlist on Continue Reading →
Weekend 584.0
(1) Signing off after 25 years (The Royal Gazette)
Weekend 583.1
“He often sees when colours match or blend and may have a highly developed taste for art, music and food.”
Weekend 583.0
This is a sad postscript about Bermuda. (1) A quarter-century of economic drama (The Royal Gazette) The Front Street retail flagships disappeared over time, along with the traditional horse and Continue Reading →