Wise Words On Wednesday: Language
“We can only cope with the dangers of language if we recognize that language is by nature magical and therefore highly dangerous.”
Owen Barfield, History in English Words
Author: pilgrim
Music Monday: By The Waters of Babylon
The Orthodox Virtual Choir returns…
Wise Words on Wednesday: Heroic Hearts
We are not now that strength which in old days
Ulysses, Alfred Lord Tennyson
Moved earth and heaven, that which we are, we are;
One equal temper of heroic hearts,
Made weak by time and fate, but strong in will
To strive, to seek, to find, and not to yield.
Music Monday: Time to say Goodbye
Wise Words on Wednesday: Censorship
We are all willing enough to praise freedom when she is safely tucked away in the past and cannot be a nuisance. In the present, admist dangers whose outcome we cannot foresee, we get nervous about her, and admit censorship
E. M. Forster
Music Monday: The Boy Does Nothing
I was talking to my wife yesterday and Strictly Come Dancing came up so I dug out the song by the former winner, Alesha Dixon…
…and as I was googling this I came across a cross-over with Gary Barlow?!
Wise Words On Wednesday: Hell
“Hell is incessant autobiography.”
Bruce Edwards, Responding to the 2012 doctoral research of Dr. Crystal Hurd