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2020-11-16T23:41:37-04:00

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Until We Are Unmasked

Last updated on: November 16, 2020 at 11:41 pm By John Mark N. Reynolds

My airline kept the middle seat free. That was most wonderful. This is not about COVID or what we should do, but about sitting on a plane talking, as I often do, masked which I have only done lately. My job requires I fly and my particular brain makes that hard. Once, on the way to Mongolia, the plane hit an air pocket and I was thrown against the ceiling of the plane. I did not like flying already, but... Read more

Culture

2020-11-16T23:31:18-04:00

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The Genius of Charlton Griffin: Audiobook Teacher

Last updated on: November 16, 2020 at 11:31 pm By John Mark N. Reynolds

The voice of Charlton Griffin is the voice of Sherlock Holmes. If you wish to hear a classic read, particularly one requiring British accents, pick Griffin. He reads, performs great texts, and his choices in emphasis, intonation, or characterization present new possibilities to the student. Audiobooks are a blessing to the commuter, the busy teacher, and the person who missed the books he should have read, back when he should have read them. Charlton Griffin has been blessed with a voice... Read more

Spiritual Reflections

2020-11-15T01:20:29-04:00

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Warning! Drug Use! Violence! Foul Language! Sexuality! (A Post with a WARNING)

Last updated on: November 15, 2020 at 1:20 am By John Mark N. Reynolds

You never know a person, even if you have been married almost thirty-five years. She began watching the program while I was downstairs, but when I came up I saw the warnings: drug use, violence, foul language, sexuality. Hope is, like Jane Eyre, a free spirit, an independent woman, and so I waited to see what she had chosen: her screen, her choice. It was The Andy Griffith Show evidently chockablock with drug use, violence, foul language, and sexuality. Amazon prefaced that... Read more

Culture

2020-11-15T00:32:35-04:00

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Four Signs Something You Wish Was True Probably Is Not

Last updated on: November 15, 2020 at 12:32 am By John Mark N. Reynolds

Everyday, several times a day, emails claiming that someone wishes to give me money end up in the junk folder of my email box. They vary, some are quite clever, my favorites are from British barristers, and they have one thing in common: I wish all of them were true. None of them are true, but how I wish the UN peacekeepers had picked my non-profit as their favorite charity for Syrian gold. They do not gain plausibility merely by... Read more

Spiritual Reflections

2020-11-15T00:24:50-04:00

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Wait, even Just a Minute

Last updated on: November 15, 2020 at 12:24 am By John Mark N. Reynolds

The timeshare salesman made a good bit of sense. We were also on vacation and very happy. We loved the location. Maybe. Sadly, we only had that very presentation to decide at the reduced, big sale rates. These discounts couldn’t, wouldn’t ever be repeated again and if we decided NOW we could also have a free vacation package! What is happening? What should we do? Wait and see. If you are not required to decide, then take time. Just now politics, religion,... Read more

Spiritual Reflections

2020-11-11T21:48:24-04:00

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Liturgy Bread: Homely Work

Last updated on: November 11, 2020 at 9:48 pm By John Mark N. Reynolds

Freshly baked bread smell fills our house. Hope is baking the bread for the liturgy tomorrow at the School and College. Each piece has a special stamp and the fact that we cannot just eat this sweet smelling bread is difficult: behold liturgy comes quickly, but not quickly enough. I made the case that our son and his friend Andrew could eat the bread with Biblical precedent, but Hope shushed me and shewed them out of the kitchen and away from... Read more

Spiritual Reflections

2020-11-11T20:56:22-04:00

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End All This!

Last updated on: November 11, 2020 at 8:56 pm By John Mark N. Reynolds

We were driving through Houston the other day and got stopped at the corner. There was an upstanding group of citizens waving placards and protesting. They started to chant: “Stop the coup! Stop the coup!” This is not about that. There are serious issues in the nation, but this is not about those either.I am not minimizing their wrath which may be, for all I know, perfectly justified. There was not time to find out at that corner sitting at... Read more

Culture

Spiritual Reflections

2020-11-08T23:59:12-04:00

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The Haunted House

Last updated on: November 8, 2020 at 11:59 pm By John Mark N. Reynolds

The house sat in the parking lot, somehow still standing, in the domain of the new, palatial, magnificent Kroger. This store gave us, the kids of the neighborhood, free hotdogs, free ice cream, free everything or so it seemed. Yet the house loomed there enduring, haunted we were told. How could it endure against gleaming chrome of the Kroger? We wondered, because wondering is what kids do. We were afraid, because the house was dark where Krogers was bright. Why... Read more

Spiritual Reflections

2020-11-08T22:18:09-04:00

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The Ticket: Full Stop on Pompous Assery

Last updated on: November 8, 2020 at 10:18 pm By John Mark N. Reynolds

A temptation of graduate school is what my mother once described as “Pompous Assery” . . . the perfect ability to be a pompous ass, make an ass of oneself while being pompous about the action. Bad enough to fall into foolery, but to do so with comic pomposity is worse. “I have not always avoided this” he said meekly. The stop sign was there. The car ahead of me sort-of-stopped. I cannot be sure, but I was close enough... Read more

Culture

Spiritual Reflections

2020-11-08T22:08:03-04:00

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The Pompous Political Speech (With a Nod to Menexenus)

Last updated on: November 8, 2020 at 10:08 pm By John Mark N. Reynolds

Politicians, like preachers, can make pompous speeches. Academics, God forgive me, have been known to do so as well, but politicians are particularly vulnerable since they must appeal to the people or at least the percentage of the people allowed to vote. Academics need only appeal to tenure committees and those are fellow travelers with the Spirit of our Age. That is our very selective electoral college. Since politicians are eager for votes, clicks incarnate, they go big or end... Read more

Spiritual Reflections

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