Weekend 494.1
(1) A quote from The Art and Craft of Stained Glass by E.W. Twining: “To be able to design for glass, in colour, a beautiful figure, perfectly proportioned, gracefully posed Continue Reading →
Month: May 2021
Dover via Canterbury
At Dover CliffsScarce hear the surge that has for ages beat,Sure many a lonely wanderer has stood;And whilst the lifted murmur met his ear,And o’er the distant billows the still Continue Reading →
Weekend 494.0
(1) France’s Great Debate Over the Sources and Meaning of Muslim Terror (Tablet) “During the electoral campaign of 2011, the Muslims of France, appalled by the populist-nationalist campaign of President Continue Reading →
China
JiaQi Bao, Christine Fang, and Zhe ‘Shelly’ Wang.
Love and loss (and friendship)
This is from one of my favorite movies….
Weekend 493.3
This weekend I travelled to Bury St Edmunds. The Abbey of St Edmund was once the fourth largest Benedictine Abbey in Europe¹ before the Dissolution of the Monasteries in the Continue Reading →
Weekend 493.2
“Threatened by shadows at night, and exposed in the light.” ― Pink Floyd “Well, you may throw your rock and hide your handWorkin’ in the dark against your fellow manBut Continue Reading →
Proximity
(1) Can’t Find My Way Home (Blind Faith) versus Go Solo (Zwette / Tom Rosenthal)
Weekend 493.1
(1) St Edmundsbury Cathedral (1a) St Edmund, Original Patron Saint of England “According to the 10th century account of the saint’s life by Abbo of Fleury, who quotes St Dunstan Continue Reading →
120 Seconds
Where the rude buttress totters to its fall, And ivy mantles o’er the crumbling wall; Where e’en the skilful eve can scarcely trace The once high altar’s lowly resting place Continue Reading →
Weekend 493.0
(1) A quote from British Rail Architecture 1948-97 by David Lawrence: “Telephone engineer, graphic designer, stained glass artist and model-maker Ernest Twining designed modern station buildings for Bassett-Lowke, and created the ‘Many-Ways’ Continue Reading →
Echoes
A quote from The Stripping of the Altars by Eamon Duffy: “The Book of Margery Kempe is a formidable warning against any assumption that the religion of ritual, relic, and Continue Reading →
Weekend 492.3 (and all the rest)
Needed a placeholder. There’s a growing tension between Catholics regarding the Church pre and post Second Vatican Council. Not sure I have an opinion yet that isn’t influenced by causality Continue Reading →
Weekend 492.2
(1) AHL Sound Tigers Team Rebranding As Bridgeport Islanders (Daily Voice)
Weekend 492.1
I’m waiting for the café next door to open…need coffee. Yesterday I went to Mass at Our Lady of Fatima in Harlow. The church was featured in 100 Churches 100 Continue Reading →