(sunday, early morning, the birds are crazy)

i’ve tried to observe my own creative process many times, and it always ends up increasing the mystery rather than solve it.

for most of my life, and with the exception of the last few years, my creative endeavors were more or less equally divided between writing ...

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For those of you who like Steeleye Span but not folk music (!) - here is an encore piece from their early years - with Martin Carthy singing lead in an a cappella version of Buddy Holly's Rave On.

Note: This is my son's favourite Steeleye track - which is rather a back-handed compliment I would ...

I wrote my last post, “The leopard in the bath,” in a coffee shop with this on the wall:

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Against a background of wood, juxtaposed with a quote from Victor Hugo and the handwriting of Aleister Crowley, is a white ceramic cup, the inside of which appears to be a vortex lined with musical staves. ...

One of my memories from very early childhood is of sitting in the bath, worrying about the possibility of there being a leopard in the corridor and agonizing over whether I would prefer the bathroom door to be open or closed. In the end I left it open, preferring to see the leopard rather than be protected from it. ...

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Homer enjoying his God-created freedom. The biggest challenge facing Christians is the seeming nebulousness of Christian values and principles.

Freedom. Love. Faith.

Christians like to believe that they have nailed these down at the personal level, but real-world experience indicates ...

We’ve been getting a lot of sync mileage out of this spelling worksheet with the Amazing Talking Dog that can, amazingly, say, “Woof!”

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I’ve pointed out that, for this to be in any way amazing, the dog would have to be saying the English word woof rather than just barking; and William ...

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The view up the Eildon Hills from near where Thomas probably met the Queen of Elfland

Steeleye Span's first and best 6:44 minute version of their interpretation of my favourite Border Ballad.

It comes from what is probably my favourite album of theirs - Now We Are Six from 1974 - favourite, not ...

Odd little juxtaposition in my YouTube recommendations:

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It is very interesting to me that many people could foresee, before it had actually become evident, that the millennium would be the end of one age of the world, and the beginning of another.

But it is not surprising that everybody who tried to describe what the new era would look like, got it very wrong. Indeed, it ...

Kek has abandoned Trump, but there are older and more powerful Internet egregores. This latest meme-magic development is perfectly timed -- right after his opponents decided to lean into the "cat lady" label -- and would be a game-changer if voting were real.

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Heck, it may even turn out to be a ...

Every year for my birthday I went out to dinner with my mother, as she would not allow the date to go by without some kind of celebration. I was her only child, my father had left when I was thirteen, and from then on my well being had been her only concern. She provided me a comfortable life and paid for my not so ...

Partly from idleness, and partly because it might interest regular readers*, I am putting down the notes I made during this early-morning's café meditation of some three quarters of an hour, which followed a half hour amble to reach the café.

The "procedure" involves slowly drinking the largest available extra-hot ...

What stops a soul ascending to the heavenly realms after death? It is its weight. A soul is literally held down by its weight or rises because of a lack of weight. In the physical world gravity is the dominant force but in the spiritual world levity takes its place and your spiritual lightness draws you upwards. ...

I saw this today on the side of a white Toyota van;

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It’s a model I’ve never seen in America, but you see it from time to time in Taiwan. The logo is a picture of a mountain labeled “TOWN ACE.” A mountain seems like an odd logo choice for a brand with town in its name, but that’s what ...

In a comment on "Bill Wright Mouse and Corn Pop popping on the apricot tree," WanderingGondola wrote:

Given that was Biden talking, it's worth quoting the meme phrase I merely linked to before: "The president has been kidnapped by ninjas. Are you a bad enough dude to rescue the president?" While it doesn't quite ...

Scrolling through a long meme-dump post, I mistook these two memes for a single meme.

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Although the unprecedented "Pottermania" that gripped the Western world until approximately a decade ago has now receded; the opinion I formed of the Harry Potter series some 15 years ago as being a work of genius has by now survived multiple (six?) complete re-readings - plus further dippings-in.

I find my appetite ...

I have given-up on trying to persuade others of the wonders of Mormon theology! Instead, I will here merely vent some of my enthusiasm.

Even Mormons regard their theology as very-much subordinate to specifics of this world practice in the CJCLDS.

And hardly anybody else outside the CJCLDS (although, a few!) is ...

This past Saturday (September 7), I taught one of my classes this page from a vocabulary book published in 2018:

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I commented on how odd two of the example sentences are:

The man was reportedly sent to jail for stealing some geese from the pond.

I saw a kitty that got its head stuck tightly in a ...

Because God is the Creator and loves us each as His children; therefore, either:

1. Even if all trace of Christianity had been utterly forgotten, or was eradicated from the world; if the Bible was destroyed or corrupted; all Christian Churches annihilated; all Christian teaching and theology inverted to evil; or if ...

I continue to be haunted by the Ace of Hearts. I found this on my whiteboard today:

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I guess a heart's not such an unusual thing to draw -- not nearly as improbable as an elephant fish, the "Sickos" guy, or a king with an apple and scepter. Still, I think it counts as a significant coincidence. ...

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Keep moving, this is a 貨車進出 neighborhood.

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As a young kid the only children's television was very old re-runs on lunchtime BBC - entitled "Watch with Mother" - which was immediately followed by "Listen with Mother" on BBC Radio: The Home Service.

(Our small, monochrome, blurry TV also had a radio receiver built-in - as modern digital TVs ...

I encourage those who have not yet read Dr. Charlton's recent post concerning Jesus and the Second Creation to do so at their earliest convenience.

The post begins with the sentence:

Jesus Christ's work came naturally to him - he was not acting upon instructions.

Those who understand what Dr. Charlton is implying ...

A couple of times yesterday, I checked William Wright's blog for updates, but there weren't any, so each time I checked, I just saw his latest post (September 7), "Love Pop follow-ups: Joseph and a Rainbow Stick." This had the effect of putting a song in my head: "Love Shack" by the B-52s, only with the word shack ...

They say the whole of life flashes before the eyes as one is about to die, that time slows down to a standstill and that seconds become eternities, but as soon as he jumped off that cliff he had what he thought was a great idea, and unfortunately it was all over too quickly. There was no slow motion, there were no ...

Jesus Christ's work came naturally to him - he was not acting upon instructions.

When he awoke to his divine creativity, Jesus knew what needed to be done - because he was a Man (as well as perfectly aligned-with God's creation); and he spontaneously realized that what Men needed to live wholly by, for and from ...

The cause of many of today's woes is often said to be rooted in the ever-increasing influence of what is loosely termed leftism, an influence to which politics, culture and even religion and science are submitted. It is the dominant ideology in the West. As the definition of the word frequently shifts in focus, it ...