Friday, January 31, 2025
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The Obama Record on Deportations: Deporter in Chief or Not?
Sunday, January 26, 2025
In fine [Latin in and finis.] In the end or conclusion; to conclude; to sum up all.
In the end or conclusion; to conclude; to sum up all.
Saturday, January 25, 2025
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Recipe for gluten-free bagels
From Facebook:
I made good bagels today. It took me a couple of tries to tinker with my current recipe and I am sharing it here in case someone wants to give it a try. I was going to take more photos, but I froze them before I was able to.
Thursday, January 16, 2025
Wednesday, January 15, 2025
Excerpt, from Elegy in a Country Churchyard Thomas Gray, 1751
. . . Perhaps in this neglected spot is laid Some heart once pregnant with celestial Fire, Hands that the rod of empire might have swayed, Or waked to ecstasy the living lyre. But Knowledge to their eyes her ample page Rich with the spoils of Time did ne'er unroll: Chill Penury repressed their noble rage, And froze the genial current of the soul. Full many a gem of purest ray serene The dark unfathomed caves of ocean bear; Full many a flower is born to blush unseen, And waste its sweetness on the desert air. Some village Hampden that with dauntless breast The little tyrant of the fields withstood, Some mute inglorious Milton here may rest, Some Cromwell guiltless of his country's blood. . . The EPITAPH. Here rests his head upon the lap of earth A youth to fortune and to fame unknown; Fair Science frowned not on his humble birth, And Melancholy marked him for her own. Large was his bounty, and his soul sincere, Heaven did a recompense as largely send; He gave to Misery all he had, a tear; He gained from Heaven ('twas all he wished) a friend. No farther seek his merits to disclose, Or draw his frailties from their dread abode, (There they alike in trembling hope repose) The bosom of his Father and his God.
Monday, January 13, 2025
Sunday, January 12, 2025
‘A Catholic in the Room’ Second Thoughts on Hilaire Belloc
https://www.commonwealmagazine.org/%E2%80%98-catholic-room
He has argued in favor of the ordination of women as priests and deacons, and has suggested that this could eventually lead to the creation of female cardinals.[2]
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peter_Steinfels
https://archive.org/details/hilairebelloc0000wils
https://archive.org/details/hilairebelloc0000wils/page/292/mode/2up?view=theater
Hilaire Belloc