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Monthly Archives: July 2010

Staten Island.

28-Jul-10

http://marionjensen.com/2010/07 The book is stalled a bit, as we’re looking for the right paper for the edition, which needs a 19th c. feel; the papers looked a bit modern and slick and had to be changed.  I’ll keep you updated.

Remembering…

28-Jul-10

http://reborn-babies-dolls.com/reborn-baby-doll-toby-by-nikki-holland-video-presentation/ … what it was like here in February.  July is almost over.  Carpe aestatem.

Kindred Spirits.

28-Jul-10

This poem, by William Roscoe, returns to my mind from time to time, and encapsulates something of what I seek in all things, that moment when “mind shall with mind direct communion hold.” I think of it now for many reasons – I feel full of desire for this communion, and always in this world […]

Now we have a Cover…

17-Jul-10

The Staten Island book is coming together… now we have a cover for it.  Looks great: Staten Island’s best mix of the 1880s, 1890s, and today.  You can order and get a look here.

Gone Latin-speakin’…

17-Jul-10

Will probably be out of touch for awhile, as I’ve gone off to rusticate.

Entertainment and Athletics.

13-Jul-10

In honor of the All-Star game, a defense of old categories.  There is a tendency for old divisions to fade away, and what was separate to merge into one – a process which goes by the name of corruption.  So we have business and athletics and entertainment, a trinity which many will tell you are […]

On Abraham.

13-Jul-10

I’ve been wanting to write an essay about Abraham for awhile, and I’m not sure I put the essay below together in quite the way I wanted to, but the story of God demanding sin from us fascinates me.  It fascinated Jung too, who said he saw the evidence of this in his patients, and […]

Abraham, Our Father in Faith.

13-Jul-10

In the endless self-repeating Flows for ever more the Same; Myriad arches, springing, meeting, Hold at rest the mighty Frame; Streams from all things love of living, Grandest star and humblest clod; All the straining, all the striving, Is eternal rest in God. – GOETHE In any good religion, there should be something utterly unpalatable, […]

Walking in the Woods, Once Again.

06-Jul-10

Last night – what will probably be one of the hottest nights of the year – I was sitting in my chair reading The Pilgrim’s Progress barely dressed and feverish, when I saw a flashlight dancing on my lawn.  I got up, quite curious – it was after nine p.m., I live far from the […]

Fever.

06-Jul-10

I picked a deer tick off of me a day ago, came down with a fever almost simultaneously, and now I have the tell-tale rash developing around the bite; it looks like Lyme disease.  Most unfortunate.  I’ve heard that the test is both unreliable and (for those without insurance) expensive (I heard $500 today), so […]