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“I Am Cultivating The Faculty of Patient Expectancy.” — Chesterton
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When I was about 12 or 13 I caught a film in the Oceana movie theater in Brighton Beach. In those days you just went to the “movies.” “Captain’s Paradise,” if I have the title right. It was in black and white, starring Alec Guinness and Yvonne DeCarlo. The premise was…
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This Day’s Mental Lint
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I’ve written on this blog before about this need to read and collect books as if trophies. Specifically, on many blogs there are “challenges,” which means, I gather, to read as many books as possible over a week-end, or a year. The challenges can be focused: mysteries, or an author, thematic…
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I Look Around
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It sounds biblical, but from out of the whirlpool something speaks to me. Around me stories are being lived. David Herrle has a mother-in-law in the hospital and his wife is distraught…Ben Rapoport in upstate Canaan, New York is aging with his Parkinson’s…My son, Jordan, just left Chicago for New York…
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Working Time
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Struggling with time is struggling with meaning, one and the same thing, in my mind. What is to be done with time as it courses and meanders through our lives? The days go by as we think we use them. I don’t believe there is a human being on this…