Category: Music

For JAI

I was out driving around in my ancient PriusListening to some Dylan songs on my CD player Blind Willie McTell“Well, I heard that hoot owl singing” Brownsville Girl“I can still see the day that you…

Compensations

In the last year I’ve been losing my words, evidenced at this site by my almost exclusive posts of one-liners by others (mostly by the saints and mystics). Rather than kvetch about this diminishment (…

Every Grain of Sand

Every particle of sand in the glass of time is  precious to me, even if I were able to set my facts in order and give an  account of them.  –Saint Augustine, Confessions, 253-4, translated by…

Home Sweet Home

Folk music was a reality of a more brilliant dimension. It exceeded all human understanding, and if it called out to you, you could disappear and be sucked into it. I felt right at home…

Birthday Song (One of ’em)

I did my best, it wasn’t muchI couldn’t feel, so I tried to touchI’ve told the truth, I didn’t come to fool yaAnd even though it all went wrongI’ll stand before the lord of songWith…

Today’s One-Liner (#191)

She loved [composer Richard] Wagner, which was something very difficult to understand. –Joe Zarella on Dorothy Day, in Rosalie G. Riegle, ed., Dorothy Day: Portraits by Those Who Knew Her

Don’t Take Everybody to Be Your Friend

We see the same salmon-cream-lilac obtuseness when Lefties try to talk religion. They live and move and have their being in a secular elite culture that has nothing but disdain for Christianity and Christians; at…