You Can Change A Gift Horse With No Name In Midstream, But You Can’t Make Him Drink

OR, WHEN BAD LYRICS HAPPEN TO GOOD SONGS This is not a post on bad songs. I will not discuss Terry Jacks singing “We had joy we had fun, we had seasons in the sun”, surely one of the most insipid pieces of pop music ever recorded. And no Archies- a band actually formed to make [...]

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For Sunday: Tchaikovsky’s Cherubic Hymn

I had forgotten how beautiful this was until I heard it on the radio yesterday:

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Seeing

Driving home from Michigan yesterday I was watching the clouds with wonder the whole way. There were puffy cumulus clouds, so common to Michigan skies, and above them in a deep blue sky, feathery cirrus brushwork. And I was seeing this without glasses. I didn’t wear glasses until I was forty, and then at first only [...]

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The Eyes of a Child

As someone who has always been fond of small children, I have long loved this song, and the Moody Blues in general  (though not uncritically). Their music contains more wonder than almost any band of the era I can think of, though early Van Morrison- “Astral Weeks”, “Veedon Fleece”, etc- comes close. The photo is my son [...]

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This Just In

Sesame Street occupiers:Sesame Street characters join Occupy Wall Street. Photographic evidence: Thanks to http://www.tauntr.com/blog/occupy-sesame-street-gets-violent

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St Seraphim of Sarov on Hope

All who have firm hope in God are raised to Him and illumined by the radiance of the eternal light. If a man does not let excessive concern for himself turn him away from love for God and for acts of virtue, then this hope is true and wise. But if a man places all [...]

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Veterans Occupy

Another Marine stands up…Remember when Tea Party activists showed up at rallies with guns on their hips? Can you imagine the reaction if the OWS protesters did the same? Thank God they don’t; violence begets violence and reaction, but I don’t recall Tea Party  protesters being pepper sprayed, arrested, or roughed up. And another Iraq [...]

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The Hatkes Go To Wall Street: Part Three

In which our heroes leave photographic evidence of their subversive activities: Read the whole story: http://letflythecannons.blogspot.com/2011/10/well-this-one-took-me-awhile-color.html And don’t forget to check out the accompanying audio files and links…    

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A Prayer Request

I had my second cataract removed Monday. Everything went well and I am no longer looking at the world through one eye; everything is sharp and clear and I only need glasses for reading and painting. I am off work until Saturday, and I am spending the time in Michigan, as my 85 year old  mother [...]

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Moody Blues: Dawning is the Day

No one did cosmic rock like the Moodys…

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