Friday, February 6, 2009

beelzebub's wiles: a metaphor

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Sometimes an Eskimo would catch a wolf with a knife. He slathered the knife with blubber and buried the hilt in snow or ice. A hungry wolf w...

fear itself

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Several decades ago now, a brief exchange from The Andy Griffith Show: Barney Fife, as played by the loopy Don Knotts, is rapidly hurtling h...
Thursday, February 5, 2009

I feel it and say it

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Often when I have been in the presence of brother Brigham, we would feel such a buoyant spirit that when we began to talk we could not expre...
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As kingfishers catch fire, dragonflies dráw fláme

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AS kingfishers catch fire, dragonflies dráw fláme; As tumbled over rim in roundy wells Stones ring; like each tucked string tells, each hu...

educating

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A young Falkland Islander walking along a beach and spying a dead dogfish and going to work on it with his jackknife has, in a fashion wholl...

Tillman anniversary thoughts

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A fellow named Pat Tillman was killed in action with the imperial Rangers in Afghanistan. Tillman, as has been well publicized, is a former...

end of the good war

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The Washington Post reports that the War on Terror is over. No armistice has been announced. No treaty has been signed. The whole thing is j...
Wednesday, February 4, 2009

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I am disposed to say grace upon twenty other occasions in the course of the day besides my dinner. I want a form for setting out upon a plea...

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No man can be without his god. If he have not the true God to bless and sustain him, he will have some false god to delude and to betray him...

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Our rulers are destroying the economy. Not little by little, as they usually do, but in huge swaths. Each great assault on the free market, ...

72-hour (year) kit

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Security depends not so much upon how much you have, as upon how much you can do without. -- Joseph Wood Krutch
Tuesday, February 3, 2009

The nine stories

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Scott Adams, the cartoonist who created Dilbert, likes to say that there are only nine news stories, constantly re-written. Think of any oth...

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"There is no such thing as a dangerous woman; there are only susceptible men," according to the usually reliable Joseph Wood Krutc...
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Today's update from our webmaster

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Just so hollow and ineffectual, for the most part, is our ordinary conversation. Surface meets surface. When our life ceases to be inward an...

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William Schwenk Gilbert, of Gilbert and Sullivan fame, once wrote to the president of a railway, “Sir, Sunday morning, though occurring at f...

the banality of evil

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A single case can be illuminating, especially when it is statistically banal—in other words, not at all exceptional. Yesterday, for example,...

Of love's austere and lonely offices

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Sundays too my father got up early and put his clothes on in the blueback cold, then with cracked hands that ached from labor in the weekday...

Heading to the Groundhog Day celebration

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Looking like giant leaves floating in the sea thousands of Golden Rays are seen here gathering off the coast of Mexico. The spectacular ...

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--Leconte Stewart, Springtime in Peterson

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The Bible tells us to love our neighbors, and also to love our enemies; probably because they are generally the same people. --G.K. Chestert...

How can I develop a love for great literature? I started reading Moby Dick once, but it was so hard I just gave up.

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Wayne C. Booth, Professor of English, University of Chicago: The question of how to develop a love for great literature [or the scriptures] ...

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Charles Mackay, in his 1852 book, Memoirs of Extraordinary Popular Delusions and the Madness of Crowds , noted that "Men, it has been w...

"And how we burned in the camps later"

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Why, then, should you run away? And how can you resist right then? After all, you'll only make your situation worse; you'll make it ...

Oakeshott

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Wrote Michael Oakeshott in The Claims of Politics: "Political action involves mental vulgarity, not merely because it entails the occur...
Monday, February 2, 2009

Not so peculiar people

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When it became know that I was a Mormon, all crowded around to look at me as though there was some peculiarity about a "Mormon" th...

In the gift of his Son, God has prepared

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a more excellent way. As a young man, Brother Vern Crowley said he learned something of the crucial lesson the Prophet Joseph had taught the...

PETA recruitment material

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The Assassination of Emma Gray Old Jerome, as the local story goes, Was a keeper of pigs, But he kept them kindly With love and tender regar...

the steens

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Steens Mountain About as far from any populated place as you can get in the Lower 48 States about says it for Oregon's remote Steens Mou...
Sunday, February 1, 2009

Modern Jonah saved by belly of whale

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Joseph Millett was an early missionary, called to labor in a small fishing village in Nova Scotia. Although there was a tiny band of member...

Apostolic Warning

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Consider...the Savior’s benediction upon his disciples even as he moved toward the pain and agony of Gethsemane and Calvary. On the very nig...
Saturday, January 31, 2009

Let's See Them All Again

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CLICK ON PHOTO TO GET THE FULL EFFECT!

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I think I am a good man, but... all over the world they say I am a bad man. --Geronimo

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Spend the afternoon. You can't take it with you....Because how we spend our days is, of course, how we spend our lives.” --Annie Dillard

A New Heaven and a New Earth

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To My Mother ---by Wendell Berry I was your rebellious son, do you remember? Sometimes I wonder if you do remember, so complete has your for...

Irene and me

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I was going through some ancient scrapbooks recently and found this snapshot I took with my old Brownie. I remember it well: we were picnic...

Radical New Cure for Depression

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The only cure for depression is suicide. This is not meant as a bad joke but as the serious proposal of suicide as a valid option. Unless th...
Friday, January 30, 2009

the world around us

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A few years back, the National Gallery held an exhibition of Spanish still-life paintings. One of these paintings had a physical effect on t...

In the footsteps of giants

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BAGHDAD, Iraq (CNN) A huge sculpture of the footwear hurled at President Bush in December during a trip to Iraq has been unveiled in a cerem...
Thursday, January 29, 2009

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I was interested to read in the local newspaper how the proprietors of some stores are preventing hooligans from gathering outside to intimi...

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"'Brother Boulder,' there was honeyed olive branch in his radio voice, 'would you please say a closing prayer for us?' ...

minding mother

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The day I rediscovered Mother Teresa's words, the so-called war on terror had just cranked up, and the Rumsfeld/Cheney Crew were dignify...

George W. Obama Speaks

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And then, just when you thought it was safe to go back in the water, heeee's back! http://hnn.us/blogs/entries/60771.html

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Britain’s foreign secretary, David Miliband, rebuking the Bush administration, urged Washington to cease using the phrase "war on terro...

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We demand windows...and literature...is a series of windows, even of doors....Good reading...can be described either as an enlargement or as...

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Is this hilarious or is it just me? German schnorrer Peter Altenberg--when one of his many young loves tearfully protested that his interest...
Wednesday, January 28, 2009

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