April 2012
8 posts
“Your universities? Oh, yes, you have learned men who collect … facts, and...”
– Howard’s End
“If we understand nothing in the created order comprehensively, that is, fully,...”
– by Thomas Dubay The Evidential Power of Beauty (1999) p. 42.
Yelping with Cormac: Taco Bell →
yelpingwithcormac:
Financial District - San Francisco, CA
Cormac M. | Author | Lost in the chaparral, NM
Two stars.
And so the man defied the villagers and ate the taco. In defiance of the will of those people but also in defiance of some order older than he. Older than tortillas. Than the ancient and twisted…
let nothing distrub you,
let nothing frighten you;
all things pass away
none faster than “my original contributions to science.”
Amen.
{committing the heresy of paraphrasing St. Theresa of Avila}
honey soaked hot cross buns →
one day, when i am in texas and not in transit on a good friday, these will happen. sadly, that day is not today. someone make these.
GOOD-FRIDAY, 1613, RIDING WESTWARD
by John Donne LET man’s soul be a sphere, and then, in this, Th’ intelligence that moves, devotion is ; And as the other spheres, by being grown Subject to foreign motion, lose their own, And being by others hurried every day, Scarce in a year their natural form obey ; Pleasure or business, so, our souls admit For their first mover, and are whirl’d by it. Hence is’t,...
Holy week, tuesday morning.
i’m listening to handel’s messiah the second half. a wispy corner of the sun stands out pink against the blue. it’s framed in the maze of train track and station, metro, tram, bus, bike, canal that is my view of amsterdam. the words of handel alone are enough to stop me in my tracks. He trusted in Him to deliver Him. He trusted in Him to deliver...
